09 August 2006
Tow Path Tales
Wed 9 Aug 10am.
We have made it to sunny Bath in SW England, and are staying with Lisa Davey, a very old friend... well, the friendship is old, not necessarily Lisa! We met Lisa when Gail and I first traveled to Nepal in 1991 and have kept in contact ever since. So, we haven't seen each other for 14 years! It has been like we just parted a few months ago, we've had loads of fun, interspersed with our own private walking tour of historic Bath. She has a great Victorian terraced house, walking distance from the centre of Bath. We'll spend the next couple of days here and head on up to Sheffield this Friday.
Prior to Bath we spent a few nights in Oxford, staying with Carrie's sister Lily and her husband Nick, and their gorgeous 11 week old baby girl Zena. Zena is just like her older cousin Maddy was; all she seems to do is sleep or lie quietly and placidly. 11 weeks old and sleeping all night and waking at 8am: it's not natural! Below is a photo of us on Lily and Nick's narrowboat home on the Oxford canal.
I&G.
We have made it to sunny Bath in SW England, and are staying with Lisa Davey, a very old friend... well, the friendship is old, not necessarily Lisa! We met Lisa when Gail and I first traveled to Nepal in 1991 and have kept in contact ever since. So, we haven't seen each other for 14 years! It has been like we just parted a few months ago, we've had loads of fun, interspersed with our own private walking tour of historic Bath. She has a great Victorian terraced house, walking distance from the centre of Bath. We'll spend the next couple of days here and head on up to Sheffield this Friday.
Prior to Bath we spent a few nights in Oxford, staying with Carrie's sister Lily and her husband Nick, and their gorgeous 11 week old baby girl Zena. Zena is just like her older cousin Maddy was; all she seems to do is sleep or lie quietly and placidly. 11 weeks old and sleeping all night and waking at 8am: it's not natural! Below is a photo of us on Lily and Nick's narrowboat home on the Oxford canal.
It was great staying with them, such a great experience spending time on their huge converted narrowboat and meeting some of their friends Fiona & Phil, and Helen. We all went to a great new wine bar in town and had a great night drinking and chatting before getting chucked out at closing time. Lily and Zena took us for a personal tour of amazing Oxford the next day. It is such an unnecessarily beautiful city! No wonder Oxford graduates leave with a sense of superiority, when you see the austere opulence and history of Christ Church, Trinity and the other uni colleges. Lily is on maternity leave from her job at the Oxford Uni Botanical Gardens, so we got a personal tour through these as well, which are both beautiful and informative.
Today we are going to absorb some more of Bath's great character and history, and tomorrow we are going to ride some bikes to more distant sights, inluding some local hills to view Bath in its glory.
I&G.
