I'm finally here!
I am in Bristol!
Arrived yesterday: flight arrived on time at noon and I was through Heathrow immigrations and with a coach ticket in hand in time for the 13:05. When did the coach leave, you ask? 1:30. When did it arrive in Bristol? 3:45pm - 45 mins late. Normally, I wouldn't care, except the residence in which I'm staying was very adamant about arriving by 4pm, or else come back the next day. By the time the UofB folks helped us noobs onto the residence shuttle, it was already 4pm. Arrived at 4:30 and ALMOST didn't get in. They were very hesitant at first about giving me my keys. WTF? I'm standing right in front of you, all my bags are here, and you won't even hand over my keys? Anyway, they did, and I was able to move in.
All I did last night was go out for a few groceries, then to Borders to get a copy of Rough Guide's Britain, then to this restaurant called "Yum Yum Thai". Guess what, folks? Don't eat there. At the time, it was okay (more like "So So Thai"). But last night I woke up feeling gross and ill. Won't go into details, but we won't be going there again.
Today, more shopping! Had to get supplies for the MA Archaeology student field trip on Tuesday, then to the Mall and Broadmead shopping centre. The main point was to go to Argos, but when I got there I found out you had to order things from a catalogue. Is this normal? Are they all like that? Instead of Argos there was this small shop across the way (like Home Hardware) and I got some of the things I needed there. Tomorrow I'm going to try Asda for the rest.
Tomorrow: registration!
Arrived yesterday: flight arrived on time at noon and I was through Heathrow immigrations and with a coach ticket in hand in time for the 13:05. When did the coach leave, you ask? 1:30. When did it arrive in Bristol? 3:45pm - 45 mins late. Normally, I wouldn't care, except the residence in which I'm staying was very adamant about arriving by 4pm, or else come back the next day. By the time the UofB folks helped us noobs onto the residence shuttle, it was already 4pm. Arrived at 4:30 and ALMOST didn't get in. They were very hesitant at first about giving me my keys. WTF? I'm standing right in front of you, all my bags are here, and you won't even hand over my keys? Anyway, they did, and I was able to move in.
All I did last night was go out for a few groceries, then to Borders to get a copy of Rough Guide's Britain, then to this restaurant called "Yum Yum Thai". Guess what, folks? Don't eat there. At the time, it was okay (more like "So So Thai"). But last night I woke up feeling gross and ill. Won't go into details, but we won't be going there again.
Today, more shopping! Had to get supplies for the MA Archaeology student field trip on Tuesday, then to the Mall and Broadmead shopping centre. The main point was to go to Argos, but when I got there I found out you had to order things from a catalogue. Is this normal? Are they all like that? Instead of Argos there was this small shop across the way (like Home Hardware) and I got some of the things I needed there. Tomorrow I'm going to try Asda for the rest.
Tomorrow: registration!