Sorry the pictures are somewhat out of order :(
Hi everyone!
Thanks for still reading my blog! I hope you're enjoying it so far! So these past few days have been very busy. On Friday (7/15/11) the whole group took a trip out to a place called Beachy Head. Beachy Head is an absolutely gorgeous cliff. From here you can see France on a very clear day! It was a very windy day when we went up there but still an amazing view! While it's a beautiful place, Beachy Head is also known as the number one place where people commit suicide. So that's pretty depressing, but still pretty view none the less. After Beachy Head we drove not too far away to a little quaint village known as Alfriston. Alfriston is the typical English village that you would picture in a movie. There was a really beautiful church and some cute shops where we stopped and got ice cream! We finally made it back to Brighton later that day and early the next morning we traveled to Stonehenge. Unfortunately we had some really awful weather, it was down-pouring the whole time, but we expected it would be slightly less crowded because of the weather. We were very wrong, the place was packed. Our program advisors had set this trip up way in advanced, so luckily we were able to skip the lines! We quickly walked through the puddles of grass, rain, and mud with our umbrellas (or brollys as they are called in England) After a very fast tour around the stones we headed back to our mini bus and we were all completely soaked and muddy! We then left and headed for Bath to see the Roman Baths. When we arrived it was still raining in Bath, our program advisor who has been doing these trips many times said this was the most she has ever seen it rain on one of her tours! So we made it to Bath and again were able to skip the line and go right in to see the Roman Baths. The tour was really cool, and took about an hour and a half! It was all very interesting! So we had a little free time before we were heading to our hotel, so we went to a restaurant. The place was called Garfunkels. It was delicious! I decided to have a "traditional British meal" aka afternoon tea! I took a picture of it, because it was really cute, but it was also amazing! It tasted so good! So then we were off to our hotel in a nearby town called Bristol. We got to go in the pool at the hotel (the hotel smelled like chlorine when we walked in, I've missed that smell!) So that was fun, and we had a very delicious pasta/melon/tiramisu meal for dinner/dessert. And we were able to tour around Bristol for the night. The next morning we had some more good food! The breakfast was not what you get at your usual hotel breakfast! I expected some gross eggs and bread. But we had a feast! There was 2 different kinds of eggs, 2 different kinds of sausage, bacon, scones, croissants (many different kinds) every sort of fruit you could imagine, cereals, and a few other items that I wasn't sure what they were exactly! But needless to say it was delicious! So that day we had 4 hours to go to Bath and do whatever we wanted! So we did a little shopping and a little sightseeing. There is a "famous" place called the Royal Crescent, which is a bunch of buildings that are connected and in the shape of a crescent. The only facts we were able to find out about it was that it took 8 years to build. We were walking around and saw a bunch of buildings in a crescent and we thought that was it, but apparently that was known as the royal circus, which I'm still not sure what that is! But Bath is a beautiful city! We finally stopped to get some food and we ended up going back to Garfunkles because it was so good the first time we wanted more! So we brought some friends and went back to eat, where I got the same meal again! Just as good as it was the day before! Finally we had a 3 hour drive back to Brighton, and we all crashed, we were so tired from such a fun but busy weekend! Now I only have 20 minutes of class tomorrow and a review of the program on Thursday. We are going to see Bodium Castle tomorrow afternoon, and that about sums up my time in Brighton. I will be travelling with a few friends to Paris for the weekend and then Monday morning Breanne will be arriving and we will meet up in Heathrow Airport! I'm getting more and more excited for her to come! But I have loved my time here in Brighton so much! But all this talk about the delicious food is making me hungry! So I will post a few pictures and I'm going to go make some lunch!
Cheers!
Kelly
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