Bristol for the weekend

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I spent the weekend in Bristol living a bit like a local and a bit like a tourist. First off, Ian drove me around the city to see all the important sights:

Welsh Back - the neighbourhood by the docks where the Welsh ships used to come in to sell goods. Have you ever heard of “Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion”? It means to be neat and tidy and comes from the Bristol ships which had to have a certain shaped hull and had to bring in their sails in a certain manner in order to sail into the Bristol docks. The Welsh ships were in a different design so they couldn’t make it into the regular docks. As a result, they stayed in a different part of the river to sell their goods called the “Welsh Back.”

Clifton Village - one of the posh bits of Bristol with a very nice center area with lots of shops and beautiful houses. We stayed there a few days later with one of Ian’s friends.

Royal Crescent - a set of houses that all look the same built in a crescent shape.

Bristol Temple Meads - the train station built by Izambard Kingdom Brunel, the famous engineer who built the first tunnel under the River Thames, the Great Western Railway, and the S.S. Great Britain battleship.

On Saturday we went to the organic food festival. I think the entire city of Bristol was there. It was so crowded. There were lots of yummy foods and a show given by the “Half Naked Chef” who was wearing his tidy whitey underwear while cooking, yuk!

Sunday we went to the kite festival. There were all sorts of crazy kites there. We actually inherited one that someone had lost and literally attached itself to Ian as it was flying by. We flew it for a while but no one came by to claim it.

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Comments

[Sharon Leary]

Hello
Hi Lynne: I am enjoying your travels from CT. Stay safe and have fun with Craig (Bunsy!....is that how you spell it?) Anyway, keep in touch. Oh, nice butt on that chef!!

[Sophie]

whities
Okay, I thought it was tighty whities, not tidy whities. But I did a Google search and apparantly people use both terms. Judges ruling, anyone?

[Sophie]

More on Whities
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001996.html

[Jen Nelson]

yucky!
I know that you surely did NOT eat any food the half naked chef cooked. And since when did you start spelling neighborhood the ENGLISH way? you are american!