Month: January 2012

Ohhh sounds impressive.

It wasn’t.

But not too bad I guess. We knew we were going to the caves, but didn’t bring a torch – so perhaps there was a wonderful exploration we missed because we couldn’t see anything. It was also late afternoon in January so got dark early. And Sian dropped her phone so we spent at least  five minutes or so searching for it (she found it!).

We did some caving, and climbing and may go back – its in a place called Doward. Next time we will take more time and bring a torch. Unfortunatly there were people about, which spoilt the enjoyment somewhat!! ;o)

We have been watching a programme called “The Cafe” on SKY1 over the last few weeks, which was set on the sea front at Weston-Super-Mare. So we decided to venture down there to see if anything looked familiar..

Train was an hour down, which isn’t so bad and was only 21 quid for the three of us. Unfortunately it was a little blowy on day, along with a slight amount of rain. It was chilly. But we were happy and smiley as we left the train, then not quite so smiley as we got into town. We headed for the sea front and wondered down to the site of the cafe – no real surprise to find it wasn’t actually there. Still we forced ourselves to have a drink in the pub nearby, whilst we googled for a place to eat. After bimbling around for a bit, we found a chippy which seemed to suggest it had good reviews, so we tested it out. It was pretty good, if not a bit expensive – but it filled a hole and got us ready for the pier.

The Grand Pier was wind swept if perhaps not too interesting, and at the end was a great big arcade – wonderful… I was so glad it was January and not June, it was just bearable with only a couple of people around – not sure I could have coped in the summer. Anyway, after a brief tour and a game of Wave Rider we trundled back into town and to the train.

Quite liked it, but glad it was quiet!

So, myself and Kate went over to Cardiff for the morning, primarily so that I could investigate digital pianos close up – but also to get a walk round and some lunch!!. What a rainy day, we got to the piano shop in the rain, and wasted 45 mins tickling the ivories on three pianos I was interested in. Kate played chopsticks on every piano in the shop whilst we waiting for the bloke to serve us. After a while we got bored and went to look at the guitars – soon bored of that we went to the Mall.

Kate was the navigator, so we looked out for the best shops in the Mall, she was chuffed to find that they were all pretty close together – Disney, Lego, Game, Greggs then over to Harpers Bizarre and the teddy shop. Fully shopped out at this point we ran through the rain to Pizza express –  as we just got in there it absolutely poured down – really bucketing.

After the pizza, we ran across a 5 lane super highway and had a quick look through the Museum, then it was back to the piano shop for a final 5 minute look before a mad rush over to catch the train (we made it).

Well – nice day, if a little wet – but at least I have now decided on the piano I am going to have – a PX730…