Friday, December 28, 2007

Edinburgh/Chester/Wales

Hello again,
So this morning we woke up at 6:30 so we could catch an early train into Chester to meet one of my old camp friends, Carly. The trains had been shut down for 2 days now and no one in the entire country could travel so needless to say today was a crazy travel day... so much in fact that we ended up getting kicked off one of the trains because there were too many people on it and it was a saftey hazard so we had to get on the next one. After four connections, a bunch of delays, and lots of people we finally made it to Chester an hour and a half later than we wanted. When we got here though Carly picked us up from the train station and showed us all around the city. There were sooo many people out shopping, it was like the day after thanksgiving over here. She showed us the Chester clock, which apparently every American takes a picture of so we had to in good American style, and walked through some Roman ruins, and went to a really pretty Cathedral. From there we went back to Carly's place in Wales (where her younger sister was very excited to hear an American accent) and relaxed... which was really nice. Her mom made us a proper English style fish and chips and mushy peas dinner and then we sat around watching TV and eating chocolate. Her family is so nice and it was great to be in a home rather then a hostel. We both had a hot shower this morning and got to blow dry our hair!!! ya!!!!! Anyways we are off to Liverpool now for a very busy and exciting day. Can't wait to go to the Yellow Submarine!!!
Until tomorrow.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Dear Nyssa and Lucy:

I finally just sat down to read your entire blog. I am so envious of this amazing trip you are on. It is 80 degrees here, so I am definitely missing some cold weather. It sounds like you are having an amazing trip; so much history and so much drinking!

I hope you continue to have a great time, and I look forward to reading more blogs. Happy New Year!

Fran Ackerman