Sunday, 1 June 2014

Bear and Crown about Town(s)

Well, it's been a few days since my last update, so I thought I would share a couple pictures and some musings.

C and I have been spending the last few days visiting various towns around the Surrey countryside; namely: Guildford, Godalming and Woking.  We also visited Reading in Berkshire.

Guildford pub
We explored the cobbled streets of Guildford first, visiting a few shops and stopping for lunch in a traditional little pub with low ceilings downstairs and – in the winter – a roaring fire to welcome guests.  We both had some delicious steak & ale pie (mine with mash, C's with chips) which was one of those 'stick to the ribs' meals – perfect food to keep you going!  Guildford is an old town and one of the few in the country which has a Cathedral; most locations in England with Cathedrals are cities.  It's one of those old laws – not a city until you have a Cathedral!

View from the bridge at the Oracle
We went to Reading on Friday as AG, my friend whom we're staying with, was attending a dog show with one of her Irish Setters.  While she was off showing dogs Charissa and I went into town for a bit of shopping at the Oracle – I think it's starting to sound like we've been doing a lot of shopping; in reality, we've been doing a lot of window shopping.

We had another lovely lunch (this time at Wagamama's, a chain) and then went back to check out some of the show before heading back 'home'.

Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, G'ming
Saturday was a combination of sightseeing and chores.  I had to take my car in for it's annual MOT and had been recommended to a place in Godalming, so we figured we'd check out the lovely market town while we were at it.  Once more we did some shopping, but only in the charity shops of the town.  A charity shop, for those who don't know, are shops which accept items for donation and resell them then use the profits toward the charity of choice: for example, the British Heart Foundation, Age UK, the Samaritans or Oxfam.

We also met up with a couple more of my friends for lunch.  We decided to get some sandwiches from the shop and eat in the Phillips Memorial Park as it was such a beautiful day out.

Some allotments in Godalming
Unfortunately my car has failed it's MOT, and so I spent part of the afternoon making phone calls to local garages to try and get the car in as soon as possible.  Charissa and I were planning to drive up to Scotland on Monday, so the car has to get fixed.  I have managed to get it booked in first thing tomorrow (Monday) morning, so if all goes well, we should be on our way North by tomorrow afternoon.


Stay tuned!

~the Crown

Bear, Crown and Kangaroo

2 comments:

  1. Oh dear. How badly did the car fail its MOT?

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    1. Just by one thing David, if anything it failed because one of the things is working too well...

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