| On saturday Tim and Mel took us out to see Windsor Castle. It was massive. The queen really does know how to spoil herself. The building itself inside the castle walls was impressive and housed some pretty amazing things - Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael drawings among a few things. Apparently the Windsor family have some 600 works by Da Vinci. We then spent a ridiculous amount of money buying Cornish Pasties and Sausage Rolls and called it a day. The Sunday was pretty relax and Tim and I played some pretty full on touch rugby before we visited a pub that he use to work at which is some 400 years old. Henry the 8th used to drink there back in the day. Today, Sarah and I travelled to Valencia in Spain and were hit with a bit of a culture shock. I suppose we were just ignorant to the fact that not really anyone at all speaks english - not even a little bit. And all the computers are in english. In fact, it took we a while to figure out how to log on to this one. It also took 25 minutes for me to copy photos to a CD. I would be screwed if I was trying to do this in China - at least you can kind of make out words in Spainish. We have just got back from a night time walk over here that was insanly cool. The buildings and churches that make up most of the plazas are massive. Some 10 - 13 stories tall, and they dont really have those floors in between, just open height space. We are off to look at the works of Santiago Calatrava tomorrow and were recomended by our waiter at the restaurant we werejust at to hire a bike to get there which we may as well do. Off to bed now though. That touch game has left me buggered |
