Sunday, November 20, 2005
Road Trip - Part 2.Left for Portsmouth at 0730H. Had nice Krispy Kreme donuts that Jianli so nicely brought from London! So the journey took us slightly under an hour and we settled for a nice english brekky at the town centre. It was so quiet mann!! Wells what do you get on Sunday morning at 9 huh? =O) The girls did a little bit of shopping there.
Headed over to Charles Dicken's Birthplace after. Nothing spectacular, just a nice little cosy place, like any other homes. Apparently there's a musuem inside which stores all his writings, but that was closed for the duration of Fall and Winter. Anyways some photos! Oh yes, our trusty Ford Fiesta - the 1.4l car with a mean engine, it runs really fast!!!
Charles Dicken's Home.
We were in the middle of a housing estate! Good thing no one was around!
Next on the schedule was visiting the Portsmouth Beach. Again, so beautiful! Check out the seafront!! Could spend forever there! I have this thing with the sea, kinda brings me back to my Navy days, dunno lahh! Puts me in a pensive, self-reflecting mood! And time for me to marvel at God's creations!
A lovely shot of the girls
Portsmouth
Haha we were looking for some Naval-related place to visit - since Portsmouth's rich in Naval tradition. So naturally, we decided that Gunwharf Quay would be a nice place to go right? Well it turned out to be Shopping Factory Outlet! No choice lohh, just make the most of it lahh! SHOPPING!!!! WOOHOO!!!!! I shall not mention what I bought, but rest assured they were good buys ( Yeah yeah, that's what they all say! )
Because of the shopping, we had under 2.5 hours to get back to Bristol. Yanxuan and Jianli had a show to catch at night. Was honestly getting a little worried, cos' that would mean that I need to clock 110km/h flat thru' the journey! Wells got back 5 mins after time, which was not too bad, considering we were crawling for a good 20 mins on the M4. Again, I shall not mention how fast we went, but rest assured that it was under control!!
So that marked the end of the Road Trip. Was pretty much stoning for the rest of the evening, and eventually collapsed at 11pm!! =O)
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