Leisure Suite

Okies so my second week of England is now coming to a close so I figured it'd be best to update.

Bath was grand fun. Less touristy mind, and more living like a Briton; which isn't terribly too unlike Canadians.

I left Bath on Monday and took a three and a half hour train ride to Leicester. I had to kill some time in Bristol -- which I adore -- and Birmingham which is like chav (think gangster but less intelligent and more chaotic) territory; not too fun.

Leicester wasn't touristy either. Beth, Suse and I more just did living type things such as grocery shopping and laundry. Days were very centered around meals (which is fine by me ;) ) and involved some out and about, but not in excess - which is good because I was sick for half my time there!

I left Leicester friday afternoon and took a very painful train journey to Lincoln; the place Alex is from. His place here is so much fun! It's in the country (Lincoln makes Bath and Leicester look like huge party cities) and it's rather large. There's really like two houses on this one really giant plot which has a huge garden! There are cow fields around us which is totally a strange change of pace for me. Mind I could never live somewhere like here no matter how much fun it is.

Alex's family has been very kind and hospitable. Alex's mother started to do my laundry pretty much as soon as I got in the door! This was a bit odd since I feel strange with other people doing my clothes, but it just seems to be what Alex's mother likes to do. I got glared at for trying to do some myself...

I've been bad... I've now purchased a few too many series of English television on dvd! I've got series 1 and 2 of Skins, series 1 to 5 of Shameless, series 1 to 3 of Little Britain, and now series 1 to 3 of The Catherine Tate Show is on it's way over! HMV does it to me... I enter the store and there are like boxes of sets of series for like £5! I mean like the entire of Little Britain was only £5! I spend more on lunch at subway than that!

Ohhh! I also bought tickets to French and Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous, Vicar of Dibley, Jam and Jerusalem -- the list could go on for ages!) and I am SO excited! This is like their farewell tour thingie since they are going to go retire for a while (they are getting a bit old...) I cannot express this excitement enough! Bethany saw how I lit up when I got the email about these (very reduced in price) tickets! I'm also searching for tickets to see David Tennant and Patrick Stewart in Hamlet, but that shall be a bit trickier to do... I WILL PREVAIL I SWEAR!
Hmm... not much to tell. These haven't been big touristy weeks, but those begin as I travel from here to Liverpool in a day from now! I am very excited to get the bigger cities going! The camera is charged and ready for mega photoshoots!

Talk to you all later! HOPE YOU VOTED/WILL VOTE!

-Alex

PS. I predict Conservative Minority which has a 35% of being forced down at the throne speech leading to a Liberal coalition with someone else.