Time and food

I have been wondering for a while, if time is moving faster her in London than back home in Norway. I just can't understand how I had time for all the stuff I did back then and still study enough. Of course this is a master and it should be more work. The thing is that I have less lectures now and use that extra time mostly for reading, but still I feel I don't even have time to make myself a proper dinner each day. I think the reason is, that I am more social here, but also they are giving us a lot of tough, long-termed course works. The system of the university is also a bit strange. They postpone all the exams to the spring, so everything I'm learning now, I have to re-learn it again the month before the exams.

I mentioned the food. I haven't been very creative when it comes to dinner. For the three first weeks I only had rice with mincemeat and sauce. It is easy and it doesn't take so long time. The last weeks I have upgraded some dinners with fried potatoes, meet and some vegetables. The two last Mondays however, I have joined Arne in the hunt for a competitor to the Norwegian Kebab. So far we have had two nice (low budget) dinners, but none of them looks similar to our Norwegian role kebab. The hunt continues.

Last weekend I met some Norwegian friends of mine. First I met Marianne on Saturday. We and some other people went for lunch. It was nice.

Sunday I met some other Norwegian friend. We went for sushi. I have never tasted sushi before and it has actually been one of the few things that I have thought I don't like. Now I know it is another thing that I like. We bought three plates with different stuff and shared everything. In addition we bought Japanese beer and sake. It was a funny evening.

The last thing on the food front is that I'm thinking of making rissole in the Norwegian way, for myself and some friends. I wish myself good luck..... 

The picture below which looks like a mix of a ham burger and something els, is apparently a Donner Kebab. It didn't look like that one the picture we saw, but it was what we got. 

Hyde Park by night

After a long day of reading, Sunday afternoon, I grabbed my camera and went to Hyde park. It starts getting dark fairly early now. I went from home at 5 pm and came to the park around 5.30. By then it was dark as the night. I was a bit unsure about the safety, walking the park in the darkness. I reckon the trolls over here must be way bigger than the ones we got in Norway, since everything els is so much bigger than what I am used to back home. Take fore example this park, I sincerely think it is bigger then my home town. 

So, ah well, it was pretty dark, so i decides to walk along the car road that crosses through the park. Because, at one point this road crosses The Serpentine, which is a big lake in Hyde park. I hoped to shoot some nice pictures there.

At the bridge I could stabilize my camera so it could take in the light it needed to make nice pictures. I didn't get the focus perfect, but still I'm fairly satisfied with some of the pictures I got.

The fall has come to London as well. It was cold outside and many of the leaves had fallen down. It was really nice walking by my self in the barely illuminated park, breathing in the fresh air (as fresh as you can get it in a city of 7 million) and shooting some pictures.