Trip to Winchester

On the 28th of September we went to Winchester. In hindsight, the trip to stonehenge was much more exciting as we had a real programme, whereas this trip just consisted of dropping us off in Winchester, showing us the Cathedral and letting us roam around for a 4-5 hours..... O.o; The Cathedral was really amazing, but I think all Cathedrals are great actually :P When we'd seen the whole thing, we had a sandwich and had to decide what to do.... We got a guide with the touristic places, so we decided to go to Jane Austin's house and Wolfsey Castle. Jane Austin's house turned out to be a house with a plaque on the front saying that it was the house she died in, but it had a sign on the door saying it was a private residence and admission was impossible...O.o; As we had expected a tour trough a great writers' house and some history on her works we were a little disappointed, but Wolfsey Castle was not far away, so we walked on. When we got there, it turned out that they were castle ruins, not a magnificent fortress with flags, horses, lackeys and homely smells... Another fluke... (Later it turned out that we read the guide wrong and that it actually said that they were ruins, but at that time, we were unaware of our dyslexia and actually quite disappointed). As we had loads of time to kill we decided to simply have a picnic on the grass that was formerly the stone floor of the bakery house in the castle and waited until it was time to get back to the bus ^.^

The rest of the day was nice as we had diner at Verena's new place and played cards in the evening. I'm glad I have such a nice group of friends and I hope we can still find the time later in the year to keep playing cards in the evenings, coocking together and all that.

Again, I still miss ou guys!
love you!
~xxx~ Fleury