Link Weekend

For the last couple of days, we've been at Link Weekend in Birmingham. We had quite a nice time. We got to see a lot of the city, and even got to meet the Lord Mayor of Birmingham. We stayed with a very nice Welsh couple, and enjoyed chatting with them just as much as we did the Rotary events. We also made several new friends who Rotary scholars in the UK, and hopefully we'll get to see some more of them before the year is out.

We also attended a Barn Dance, which was interesting. It was like elementary school gym class square dancing all over again . . . although I like to think that just maybe I've improved a little bit since I was eight. However, compared to the others, I think I'm still just as inept. The buffet on the night of the Barn Dance was interesting; some of the sandwhich options were very unusual, by my standards. That said, I hear it was typically British, so I'd best get used to it!

Now, we're back in Exeter, sort of. We're staying in a hostel on the road to Topsham, which is one of the next towns past Exeter. We're actually closer to Topsham than Exeter, but still technically "in" Exeter. The walk out here took about an hour; it's over three miles! Needless to say, we're catching the bus to get back into town tomorrow morning.

We had dinner at a nice little pub/sports bar called the Hog's Head, which features a pretty cheap two dinners for £5.95 deal. They also have breakfast two for £3.95, which is probably what we'll be doing in the morning. Drinks, of course, are extra. We're looking forward to getting moved into an apartment so we can start cooking our own food (and eat for several days on £5) and not have to spend quite so much cash on eating out all the time!

Tomorrow looks like it's going to be a busy day, but of course that's been a pretty common theme of late!