I am currently making the most of the surprisingly good weather we are having by going on holiday lots during May. That's not a joke by the way - I have been very busy over the past 3 months since I gave up working, honest!
Last week, Hubby (now also unemployed and having fun!) and I visited London Zoo (quite pricey but we had Tesco's vouchers to use up so no probs there). Was good actually, even though the weather was somewhat dodgy. We saw lots of weird and wonderful creatures ranging from giraffes with their adorable long eye-lashes and side-to-side chewing motion, to piranhas waiting for their next victim. Plenty of photo opportunities too, especially of Hubby sitting beneath the "amphibians" sign outside the reptile house (tee, hee...well he is a frog!!). It made me laugh anyway! Only problem is that now I have a great desire to do this.
Other favourites were the lamas and alpacas with their long necks and intelligent faces, and interestingly, also the bug-life centre. Here we saw an extended family of ants carrying huge slices of plant leaves to their nest along the predetermined route of a piece of rope. Incidentally, the rope was completely open to the elements and any prying children's fingers - and had a big sign saying, "these ants bite".
Tuesday saw us in Kent visiting numerous sights including Bodiam Castle, Dover Castle (excellent but very windy), Canterbury and its Cathedral, Richborough Castle and Reculver, to name a few (oh and not all in one day by the way - that might have been a bit much!). As you can probably tell, if you know about these things, we made good use of our National Trust and English Heritage cards. Tesco vouchers also came in handy (again) for a visit to The Canterbury Tales - fun but a little pricey (although not quite so extortionate as the cathedral entrance fee).
Other places of note that I particularly enjoyed visiting (since I seem to be producing a long list after all, and wouldn't like to miss out any of the smaller less well-known attractions) include Eastbridge Hospital in Canterbury High Street and Greyfriars Chapel with its lovely peaceful gardens and a simple, elegant chapel upstairs in the medieval building.
This week we're off to Spain for a taste of the Moorish! No doubt I'll have a few words to say about it on our return, although I've heard (from those who know) the food's not that great in Andalusia (all a bit 'tourist-quality' apparently), so perhaps I'll be focusing on the wonderful architecture instead...yeah, right!
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