Bath: Day 20

Today we ventured to Bristol, Bath's "ugly" cousin. While Bath was built as a leisure city, Bristol was meant for business. The slave trade was prominent there as well as a station for the militia. It was also a harbor for the trading of goods so many sailors lived here. It was actually a very dirty place to live. It's much better today, but you can really see a marked difference between Bath and Bristol and there is a major difference in socio-economic levels between the two cities.

The first picture is just to get an idea of what the streets look like. The second picture is just me on the docks (yes, it was very windy here). Third is just the water and all the boats- it's still very active. The next picture is St. Mary Redcliffe's Church- very Gothic architecture. The last photo is of the incredible ceiling inside the church.

We did so much walking around Bristol today. My Jane Austen class hopped on a train around quarter to ten and we didn't come back until 1:15. (Oh, there were these weird people at the train station handing out these mini-Coca Colas...like nobody has ever had a Coke before...weird??) So I really did not have much of a break before Sherlock Holmes- just grabbed a sandwich at Cafe Retro, which was great of course. Thankfully, we just watched two adaptations of "Spider Woman" and "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (Jeremy Brett version) in class so my feeties got a break.

For some reason I was just so tired today so after I worked on my presentation for Tuesday with my partner I went back to the house and slept soundly. I'm not quite sure how long I slept for...my roommate woke me up for dinner which really wasn't great because we don't have much in the house and we don't want to shop when we are all going to be out of town this weekend. We also had apple pie which was the only good part of the meal for Becca's 20th birthday. I decided to take the smart route tonight and not go out, stay in and do some work, pack up for Dartmoor tomorrow, and get plenty of sleep.

Sorry for the short blog! I promise to write you a novel for the next two. I will not be bringing my laptop with to Dartmoor because we will only be there one night so I will update the blog Saturday night. Night all!