We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

Alright, time for my weekly update.

I left Lincoln last wednesday and went to Liverpool. When there I met up with my friend Lee who I wasn't planning to meet up with originally, but ended up doing so anyways. We went to a concert (Los Campesinos!) which I was supposed to be going to with Nathan, but he was busy getting a job...

We ended up having... a few too many... and I can't really recall all that much of the concert! How terrible!

Spent the night at a hotel and then met Lee and his other friend Lee (yes too many doubles in the world!) for breakfast. Got lots of pictures and whatnot and had English Chinese food... which is mostly the same as Canadian Chinese food but with more English things like Fish and Chips... Asian style...

Went to the Natural Museum across from the train station because it was free before leaving for Manchester.

The train to Manchester was the worst train ever! It was jammed so full of people I had to squish like 5 people just to get my bag on. I was standing at the door... which is NOT allowed apparently but I really needed to get to Manchester... Nathan would be waiting and the next many trains after that would be as busy. The ride was only an hour.

Manchester was amazing! My favourite city in the trip so far (Liverpool being a close second) Nathan was so much fun to spend a weekend with! He toured me around and took me for cheap cheap drinks! (yay £2 cocktails!) How alcoholic this part of the trip seems...

... I may have accidently gotten a body alteration...

Anyways, he was rather sick so I buggered off later Saturday to return to Bath. I was planning to go to Leicester, but I'm going to have to be in Bristol on tuesday anyways for a concert so I figure I'd save a train pass day (which I've used half of now)

The train from Manchester to Bath was MORE hell! It was 7 hours long and it involved me ''accidently'' going to Wales (I didn't have a pass that let me to go Wales, but Wales wasn't a destination so... I was planning to play dumb tourist)

By the time I got to Bristol it was already really late, and it turns out the reason I couldn't take a more direct route to Bristol and thus Bath and had to fake my way through Wales was that half of the south western stations were like under construction or something. I had to catch a coach from Bristol to Bath. Joy. A fifteen minute train ride becomes a ninety minute bus ride UGH!

Anyways made it here. All is well. Tomorrow (Monday) will be a laundry day. Tuesday we go to Bristol to see Los Campesinos! so I can remember them. Wednesday will be... something restful... and thursday I take a lovely seven hour train ride up to Edinburgh. I shall be meeting Beth and Suse in Birmingham, but their journey shan't be nearly as long as mine.

We were going to go to Dublin, but we decided to hold off for pricing reasons. Edinburgh is a train ride whereas Dublin requires a plane. Just made sense.

Till next week

Alex