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We arrived in England around mid-day yesterday. The weather was shitty, I mean real shitty. We had to be in service dress blues, which sucks in the rain, however I wish I had a picture of it because I was looking real sharp!
Anyways, around night time the weather cleared up and a few of us headed into town to see what we could find. We ended up at this really awesome, quiet pub sort of near where the ship is moored. We ended up getting drunk with the owner, who was about 75 years old. He took us around the entire bar showing us all the historic parts, apparently the building had survived a ww2 bombing. The buildings on either side had been destroyed, so it was the original building from the 1700's. He even took us into the basement, which was real spooky but awesome.
This guy hangs out at the bar he owns, and has a bartender running the place (a real cute girl with an awesome accent) and just hangs out and gets drunk.
So for about 5 hours I got to talk about history with this elderly "chap". He told me that in old england, someone named John would begin calling himself Jack once he reached a certain age. Sort of like how people named William call themselves Bill.
Anyways, the night was awesome. I'm stuck on the ship today because I have duty. Tommorow I'm going on a trip to stonehenge, and the english town Bath. Which used to be a roman settlement and still has alot of leftovers from that time. Then thursday a few of us are heading to London. I'm going to try to find the girl from harry potter and marry her! She's 18 now so that doesnt make me weird!
Pictures to follow!
Anyways, around night time the weather cleared up and a few of us headed into town to see what we could find. We ended up at this really awesome, quiet pub sort of near where the ship is moored. We ended up getting drunk with the owner, who was about 75 years old. He took us around the entire bar showing us all the historic parts, apparently the building had survived a ww2 bombing. The buildings on either side had been destroyed, so it was the original building from the 1700's. He even took us into the basement, which was real spooky but awesome.
This guy hangs out at the bar he owns, and has a bartender running the place (a real cute girl with an awesome accent) and just hangs out and gets drunk.
So for about 5 hours I got to talk about history with this elderly "chap". He told me that in old england, someone named John would begin calling himself Jack once he reached a certain age. Sort of like how people named William call themselves Bill.
Anyways, the night was awesome. I'm stuck on the ship today because I have duty. Tommorow I'm going on a trip to stonehenge, and the english town Bath. Which used to be a roman settlement and still has alot of leftovers from that time. Then thursday a few of us are heading to London. I'm going to try to find the girl from harry potter and marry her! She's 18 now so that doesnt make me weird!
Pictures to follow!