It was autumn, then winterm then spring and back to winter and now it is summer!!! Really really hot today and yesterday. 22C. I was in the sun walking the whole day yesterday... and when i came back, Iona told me i was all red at my shoulders.... dun think i got sunburn, but i thought it'll be a big joke if i got sunburnt in England, the Newsweek-branded worst place to be in if you r a sun lover.....
Yeah, was in Canterbury on Tuesday and Dover yesterday. Canterbury was nice.... but a lil overrated i think. Maybe because i thought i was too small.. Went to the cathedral, St. Augustine's Abbey, Dame John Gardens, Canterbury Castle, West Gate. The weather was really good, so i was in a good mood all the time. =) Did a bit of window shopping too.... went to this place called the Custard Tart which sells absolutely wonderful baguettes at less than £2.50!!! Where can you get such good deals, there are even fillings like Duck with spring onion and Mexican chicken salad. Really really really good. =) THe YHA at Canterbury was quite near town and very victorian. Met these 3 other ppl who were also travelling alone and we started talking during dinner all the way till 11plus. Kristin is from Australia and is now on a round-the-world working holidays for 11 months, to recollect and rediscover herself after her divorce. Then there's Claire who travels to England at least twice a year "to feed her English roots with some novels" (She's half french and half english). THere's also Gus, a 19-year-old American from South Carolina and is now in UK for at exchange programme at Strathclyde in Glasgow and will be spending easter to travel before going back to Clemson (where he studies) in July. and there's me. Such an eclectic mix. We were talking about all sorts of things from weather to working to television to sports to Brovil and Marmite/Vegemite. It was funny. Also had to be Claire's model while she did some portraits for us. =)
Ooh... juz a small question. How do you pronounce "Texas" and "Taxes"??? They sound the same to me, seriously.
Dover. I Love Dover Castle. and the secret wartime tunnels. More than anything else. Possibly becuase i am a WW2 freak, but i really like the tunnels.... which was the headquarters of the operations from Dover during WW2. And there was also an Underground hospital. Hard to imagine that you are standing in a ward that housed many wounded soldiers during WW2, less than 65 years ago. Met Gus again. He was here on his way to Portsmouth. Did i mention that he has a really nice body? Not that it matters though. And i have not realised that it's been 6 and a half months since i saw the sea and the beach. The sun, the sand and the sea. Only problem is that there is no sand. only pebbles. For some reason, it was a pebble beach, not a sandy one. But heck, it was a beach nontheless. I also had my first ice cream in dunno how many million years (this is an exxaggeration). Hmmm...... I dunno how i actually lived without it for so long.... maybe i'll go have another one after this....=)
I am going into the sun now. I dunno what's wrong with me, but nowadays, i feel like i have to be in the sun whenever it's out. It's crazzy. =) But i like it that way.=)
