Portsmouth and driving

Ok, so I can’t be bothered writing about the stuff I did in Wales or Bath. I just read Svend’s blog and he sums it all up nicely.

In Portsmouth, I had had enough of historical places and museums so instead went back to my tried and true habit of catching an elevator up somewhere high and looking around. That was the spinnaker tower. There was some fantastic views, and I should have waited until it finished raining to snap pictures.

There is also a decent outlet mall there, so I bought some underwear and a few birthday cards that I should really post today! Then found a pub for lunch and spent a lot of time using their wifi.

I did go check out the Historic Dockyard and took pictures of the boats and looked at the antique shops, but I didn’t go into any of the museums. Oh, except for the free exhibit on being an apprentice.

I also finished reading Holly Black’s book White Cat. I’ve also since finished reading the sequel Red Glove.

There are three things I noticed driving round the country.
1) Following distances don’t really exist. People like to drive very closely here.
2) I hadn’t realized that in NZ they make pretty accurate signs to portray curves coming up in the road. Here they use the same sign no matter what the curves will be, and it is a frightening backwards N. So it was like false advertising, and every time I expected horrendous double turns, and mostly got gentle curves instead. Better than the other way though!
3) It’s very pretty to drive around, but all the hedges close up make you feel kinda cramped in, and block the lovely view.

All in all, it was a lot of fun driving around with my friends and seeing some great sights!