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

Stonehenge and Salisbury

Okay so I've been quite busy so far. During International week we got tickets for trips on the weekend of 27 and 28 September, yeey! finally we get to see more of the neighbourhood than just the Halls and Uni :D So we went to Stonehenge and Salisbury on Saturday the 27th :P The bus left later than expected, but then the busses are almost always late, just like in Holland O.o; First we went to stonehenge, but we only had 40 minutes to look around the stones, which we thought was quite short, because the audio tour takes longer I think. SO we decided to just watch the stoned from outside the fence (they were still very visible and huge-looking, so we complemented each other on our decision ^-^). Next we went back into the bus (it left late again! O.O shocker!) and left for Salisbury, which is about half an hour away from Stonehenge. Salisbury is a lovely looking town :D It is very relaxed and we basically just strolled around there and saw the Cathedral. We also bought some groceries and I got some touristic cards for my family.... just a few, but I got a great one for Inge and Harold (good friends of ours) I think Inge will really laugh when she gets it XD. I haven't actually gotten around to writing them yet, as I keep myself quite busy cooking and playing cards with my newfound friends. So that's about it for Saturday, of course we made loads of pictures of the place and of each other which are in a slide show to the side :D Love you all who are reading this! Miss you (give a hug to Fudge for me!) ~xxx~ Fleury