Diggin’ the pubbin’
Sunday, May 15th, 2011 at 10:34 | categories: Travel
While I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time in the Riviera, there’s something about the British culture that seems to fit my mindset. I visited my hometown friend in Bristol just after the trip to Oslo, having been home (well, my French home) for about 15 hours in between. A direct EasyJet flight from Nice to Bristol during the off-season shouldn’t set you back more than 40 euros. At the moment the prices seem to be almost tripled, though, probably due to the Cannes film festival.
Bristol is a city with a population of around 433,000 characterized by loads of old churches and concrete houses built in the 60’s after the damages of WWII. Even the newer ugly houses often have a British pub-kinda vibe to them, as some of the facades are covered with a wooden surface painted black or dark green. There’s also a floating harbor with a few pub boats, one of which had an open mic session on Friday where we performed some Finnish music.
In addition to Bristol I got to see a place by the sea called Weston-super-Mare, which for some reason looked a bit like Coney Island with old looking ice-cream parlors and random gambling machines. The views were nice, but the totally brown water was a bit less compelling than the clear turquoise Mediterranean counterpart. We also visited Bath, which is an old spa city founded by the Romans back in AD 43 and even got to taste the hot spring water. It was warm and tasted funny.
River Avon (Avon means river in Welsh, so River River)
Bristol Cathedral and a dude
In Weston-super-Mare
Fish & Chips
The Finnish company
Hey, let's cross the bridge! Splash. Hey, let's not cross the bridge!
The Royal Crescent in Bath
Musical performance
England looks fantastic through your eyes and stories!
And you and Suski look wonderful together in the final picture 🙂
I wish you’d sang/played for us 🙁 and it looks like your trip was a great time 🙂
He did at the Mexican’s house the time one of us decided to call it an early night lol.