The Merchant's Tale

For anyone looking for a discussion of Chaucer, you can stop reading now. "The Merchant's Tale" is actually the title of one of the Exeter tours, about, appropriately, wool merchants. Amanda and I went on it this afternoon. Amanda loved it; I thought it was okay, but not great.

The tour began, as so many do, at the Cathedral Square. From there we wandered slowly across town to the quay, which is where our tour ended. After the tour ended, we spent about two hours exploring around the quay, and eating a late lunch at the Riverside Cafe, a lovely place by the River Exe. We also got some great pictures of some swans, ducks, and other birds, who live along the quay.

Before we went on our tour, we went to Curry's Digital to purchase a replacement for my dearly departed Cloudbook. I now have an Advent Netbook, which is similar to the Cloudbook, but is slightly larger (but the same weight) and has better specs. This is my first blog entry to be typed on my new netbook, so if there are any typos, I blame it!

The pastor from South Street Baptist Church came by this evening; we talked with him for about an hour. We got a lot of good information from him, and discovered that British Baptist churches tend to be a lot more liberal than their Southern Baptist counterparts. Ordination of women? The British have been doing it for over 70 years. Women as decons? No problem. We approved.

Overall, it was a fairly quiet day. In good news, I've finally found a discount brand of cola that I can live with. Tesco's store brand (44p) is actually quite good, plus it definitely beats paying £1.49 for Coke or Pepsi. I haven't tried the sugar free store brand (18p), but I expect that it will be more bitter than I'd like because of the artificial sweetener. Also, Tesco's store brand of apple juice is better than that at Sainsbury. Overall, Tesco seems to have very good store brands; I've liked everything of theirs that I've tried, although I wasn't a great fan of their orange juice.