I shall never forget, as long as I live, the day when I first set (A) ________ in London. I had come from a quiet little town in Switzerland and I had never before lived in a big city, so London was a new (B) ________ to me and I was dying to find out more about it for myself.

The general (C) ________ abroad is that London has fog or rain, or both, every day of the year, but on the day that I (D) ________ it was fine and warm, there was a bright sun and a cloudless sky. The next day was just as beautiful; there was a slight wind that gently moved the leaves on the trees, and you could smell the spring in the air. "Life is grand," I thought, as I (E) ________ Johnny, the little boy of the house, for a walk in Kensington Gardens. It was a straight road and I found the way quite easily. When I got my first (F) ________ of the gardens the beauty of it nearly took my (G) ________ away.