Oct. 20th, 2010

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It's been a wonderful day, but tiring, since I walked all over Bristol - or so it seems. I'll swear every street in Bristol goes uphill. Good exercise, that. I was proud of my map-reading skills, and didn't get lost once, though the streets aren't always well marked.

Highlights:

  • Forbidden Planet. Priority sightseeing, of course. I bought small lead figures of Wolverine and Guardian (from Alpha Flight - this last in a fit of nationalism no doubt brought on by travelling, since I don't think the character in the comics has ever shown much personality. The young man at the cash was very helpful and friendly, and I wish I'd got his name for a commendation.

  • The Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. I skipped the dinosaur - we have plenty back home, and dinosaurs bore me - and went to the paintings, and the gorgeous display of Chinese dragon art. Among the paintings I was excited to find anothert painting by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. The info said it was inferior because he reworked the faces thirty years after initially painting it. My thought was: Burne-Jones is so good, even his inferior work is magnificent.

  • The Planetarium. Surrounded by English and French school-kids, I learned about the constellations of Cassiopoeia, Andromeda, and Perseus, and much besides.

  • I looked into the Bristol Central Library, which is so much nicer than Ottawa's main branch library that I wanted to weep.

  • For dinner, I went to Planet Pizza with [livejournal.com profile] kelticbanshee and her partner - their suggestion, and I was glad of it, because the place is terrific. My delicious pizza was called a Planet Earth. Vanilla creme brulee for dessert, and it was perfectly made.

  • We went to see the Clifton Suspension Bridge all lit up under a bright moon, and it was as beautiful as it was big. Very impressive.

  • We went to see the house used in Being Human. It looked just as it ought, and raised my anticipation for season two, which I haven't seen yet.


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