I can't stay put for very long, can I?
Today I decided to go to Southampton. Just to see what's there. Southampton used to be a kind of holiday resort town, and is best known for being the place from which the Titanic began her maiden voyage in 1912. As we know, it ended up hitting an iceberg 5 days later and 1500 people on board died.
I bought a little leaflet for the Titanic Trail from the tourist information centre for £1. It was pretty much just a map with some stops highlighted and a bit of information about each stop, all relating to the Titanic. However the trail did go right around the city, so I also stopped along the way when I saw some historic things, market stalls and interesting shopping. Ate lunch while walking, as I am so practiced in doing.
It was a good way of seeing all of the city as part of a (semi) structured activity, even though the stops themselves were pretty ordinary monuments and things. I actually got bored at about stop 8 of 13, when I found a nice park an just sat on the grass for a while. Then when I decided to at least try to resume, the stop was a horrible dock area, so I just gave up.
Southampton is not a nice city. As in aesthetically. Not like Bath or Rye. And also there seemed to be a lot of construction work and traffic (like trucks and stuff), an combined with all the shipping containers on the docks, it really does look like an industrial type of city.
And it was getting pretty hot (22 degrees today!) so I hid in the nice air conditioned shopping centre. Got myself a little single serve raspberry mousse type thing from M&S. Was totally going to get the scones with jam and cream, but they sold them in a pack of 2 massive scones and I had no one to share it with! *sadface*
On that note, I do miss you all, and I wish I could share these experiences with you.
So I sat down to eat it and called Paolo to wish him happy birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAOLO, you're so old, get a real job already. Jokes, keep looking for vac work!
Finished a hard day's work (hard life I have, I know!) by getting a Shakeaway milkshake. Mish and Sarah had told me that I had to try it, so seeing as it was really hot, today was the day! Shakeaway is basically a milkshake chain that lets you create your own milkshake. I had a simple toblerone millshake. SO GOOD. Until I got to the end and there were about 7 chunks of chocolate at the bottom that hadn't been blended properly. I don't know if that's the point, but I would actually rather it all smooth. Cos it gets messy trying to get the lid off and eat the stuff at the bottom, even with that little spoon at the end of the straw. Or maybe I'm just pretentious.
Time to go home and do more lazing around!
Ps. Happy 3 months (again), Dave!
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Today I decided to go to Southampton. Just to see what's there. Southampton used to be a kind of holiday resort town, and is best known for being the place from which the Titanic began her maiden voyage in 1912. As we know, it ended up hitting an iceberg 5 days later and 1500 people on board died.
I bought a little leaflet for the Titanic Trail from the tourist information centre for £1. It was pretty much just a map with some stops highlighted and a bit of information about each stop, all relating to the Titanic. However the trail did go right around the city, so I also stopped along the way when I saw some historic things, market stalls and interesting shopping. Ate lunch while walking, as I am so practiced in doing.
It was a good way of seeing all of the city as part of a (semi) structured activity, even though the stops themselves were pretty ordinary monuments and things. I actually got bored at about stop 8 of 13, when I found a nice park an just sat on the grass for a while. Then when I decided to at least try to resume, the stop was a horrible dock area, so I just gave up.
Southampton is not a nice city. As in aesthetically. Not like Bath or Rye. And also there seemed to be a lot of construction work and traffic (like trucks and stuff), an combined with all the shipping containers on the docks, it really does look like an industrial type of city.
And it was getting pretty hot (22 degrees today!) so I hid in the nice air conditioned shopping centre. Got myself a little single serve raspberry mousse type thing from M&S. Was totally going to get the scones with jam and cream, but they sold them in a pack of 2 massive scones and I had no one to share it with! *sadface*
On that note, I do miss you all, and I wish I could share these experiences with you.
So I sat down to eat it and called Paolo to wish him happy birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAOLO, you're so old, get a real job already. Jokes, keep looking for vac work!
Finished a hard day's work (hard life I have, I know!) by getting a Shakeaway milkshake. Mish and Sarah had told me that I had to try it, so seeing as it was really hot, today was the day! Shakeaway is basically a milkshake chain that lets you create your own milkshake. I had a simple toblerone millshake. SO GOOD. Until I got to the end and there were about 7 chunks of chocolate at the bottom that hadn't been blended properly. I don't know if that's the point, but I would actually rather it all smooth. Cos it gets messy trying to get the lid off and eat the stuff at the bottom, even with that little spoon at the end of the straw. Or maybe I'm just pretentious.
Time to go home and do more lazing around!
Ps. Happy 3 months (again), Dave!
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