"Hi Zoe, did you get back ok?"
Yep. Sweet. All is good. Went back to sleep.
Was bullied into getting up half an hour later by Josh, as we were running close to missing breakfast again. Am very glad we didn't - that place serves good food!
Went back to sleep while Zoe moved all her stuff from her poor battered suitcase into a new pack.
Had to get up as we had only been able to get two nights there so had to move hostels. Said goodbye to James, reminded him to visit Carshalton. He promised he would.
Went over to meet Monte at his hostel. Complete nonappearance on his behalf. Tried to fall asleep on the couches. Zoe would not let me.
Went and booked into new hostel next door. Went back to see if Monte had magically appeared. He hadn't. Zoe wrote a note to leave at the desk for him. He appeared.
Went and met up with Kelly. Had lunch at crepe place. Yum.
Walked to Christchurch. Did not go in because of entry fee. Was just as happy sitting outside looking at the outside. Would have liked being part of the building crew for a church like this, the architectural structure was fascinating. Got distracted by herring gulls, spent next fifteen minutes attempting to get photos of them in flight.We then visited Trinity College to look
at the Book of Kells. We made it about twenty steps into the grounds before getting caught up watching two performers doing Irish dancing. Apparently they were filming a promotion for Eurovision Dance Comp. Whatever. I was just happy watching them. They were really good, and it was interesting to see how they dealt with dancing on cobblestones.
Posted some stuff back to Melbourne. Cannot say what because it's a surprise for someone/s.
Met up with Josh. Had chips in cafe. As if you needed to know that. Clearly, I'm not in one of my rambling moods. Possibly a good thing.
OK ok I'll try and write properly. So, this new hostel Zoe and I were booked into... it wasn't very flash. Understatement. It was at the absolute bottom of the scale. Everywhere else was booked out, and we figured we'd just deal with it for this one night. It was pretty terrible, five flights up a dark staircase and off down a dingy corridor. Obviously we'd paid for both of us, but there didn't appear to be two free beds in the room...
2 comments:
'spent next fifteen minutes attempting to get photos of them in flight'
a typical shell quote. makes me smile :) but why aren't we seeing 'gulls on flight' photos?
and why on earth did you not go inside christchurch? stingy :P
Because it was a choice between going into Christchurch or having money for dinner.
Food... going inside big building... food... going inside big building...
But really, it was so beautiful from the outside that I was quite content to do my surveying from there.
We aren't seeing gulls in flight photos because I didn't deem them of a high enough quality to get up here. But I did some sketches from the photos which are better so maybe I'll put them up instead one day...
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