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Originally Posted by masaegu
Not sure if we are communicating well but you are the one that knows what sounds natural in English.
In Japanese, however, you would only sound very strange if you said:
「先週、朝ご飯を食べて、ロンドンに行きました。」
My ears simply refuse to take the combination of 「先週」 and 「朝ご飯を食べた」. I would have found no issue had OP opted to use a specific day like 「先週の土曜日」. You may confirm this with any Japanese-speaker that you trust.
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Ah! My mistake. I see where we were getting our wires crossed!
Yeah, if there were no context about "last week" being "last week
end," then definitely "last week I ate donuts and went to Austin" does sound weird.
I think I was operating under a "student" assumption that travel would have had to have happened on the weekend.
So yeah, you're right!
And that "have had to have" above in this post? That's some next-level weird-yet-correct English going on there!
It even gave me pause when I was writing it—"is that correct? humm...yeah it is *clicks save*"