England - Day 1
Well, I'm now in the Bath (no, smartarse, I'm not about to electrocute myslf with the power cable - I mean the TOWN). Trip was long but not too bad, all things considered. England makes me feel horribly provincial: the main thing that strikes me about the place is the sense that if you shook it, the new-looking things would kinda fall off and you'd be left with 19th century England, and if you shook it some more after that, you'd be left with 18th century England, and so on and so forth until you'd just be left with pubs, churches and stone fences, which seem to have been here forever. Also, the colours of the landscape. There are two: green (and I mean every green under the sun), and a kind of rusty silvery pale brown. Everything else is greyscale, except the sky, which is blue.
Which brings me to the point that people who say England has only bad weather are full of shit. It was beautiful and sunny today, and I have the photos to prove it. Hell, it was sunnier on the bus from Heathrow to Bath than it was in Sydney when we left. I even got a photo of a rainbow in the sky near Reading. It was a pleasant ~10 degrees, too.
There's so much I want to do, but at this moment I'm particularly keen to see four things (listed in the order I'll probably do them in).
1) See Maiden Castle, the MASSIVE pre-roman hill fort near Dorchester. It's less tourist-y than stonehenge, and the site of a genuine Ancient period battle. Yeah, I'm a geek, but damn it, I'm not a cliche'd geek.
2) See some classical Greek artifacts in various London museums.
3) See Avenue Q, which is on in London ATM (and even has cheap weekday tickets being advertised).
4) See West Ham v Liverpool (live), which is on one day before we fly out, in London (dur). I really realy really hope we can get tickets to this one, as we couldn't get tickets to Liverpool v Ason Villa.
Also, I won a beer and amused myself greatly today by programming the time into L's Mum's microwave, which is in Greek. It took 30 seconds, and they've been trying to do it for years. I rock. So does GTranslator.
Which brings me to the point that people who say England has only bad weather are full of shit. It was beautiful and sunny today, and I have the photos to prove it. Hell, it was sunnier on the bus from Heathrow to Bath than it was in Sydney when we left. I even got a photo of a rainbow in the sky near Reading. It was a pleasant ~10 degrees, too.
There's so much I want to do, but at this moment I'm particularly keen to see four things (listed in the order I'll probably do them in).
1) See Maiden Castle, the MASSIVE pre-roman hill fort near Dorchester. It's less tourist-y than stonehenge, and the site of a genuine Ancient period battle. Yeah, I'm a geek, but damn it, I'm not a cliche'd geek.
2) See some classical Greek artifacts in various London museums.
3) See Avenue Q, which is on in London ATM (and even has cheap weekday tickets being advertised).
4) See West Ham v Liverpool (live), which is on one day before we fly out, in London (dur). I really realy really hope we can get tickets to this one, as we couldn't get tickets to Liverpool v Ason Villa.
Also, I won a beer and amused myself greatly today by programming the time into L's Mum's microwave, which is in Greek. It took 30 seconds, and they've been trying to do it for years. I rock. So does GTranslator.