It's 4.30pm in the city & it feels like 6.30.
It's nearly dark & there's huge traffic jams. We have never seen so many people ride push bikes in the UK & its not just students. It's mothers, kids older professor looking men, young woman dolled up in their finest work gear. It seams so dangerous in amongst the traffic & no helmets either. It's so beautiful with all the lights on the old buildings & lots of big leafy trees & being autumn there golden leaves lying everywhere. The designs & history of these colleges is breathtaking. We wanted to see as much as we could so we went to get a map of the city (amongst other things) from the TIC & ended up walking out without it. I can look it up on the iPad, it's been great ( when it does what I want it to do that is ) I just google where the TIC is & the tap it into the Tom Tom.
We had ( probably ) our last pub meal tonight & Bob was held up for ages with a fellow patron who just loved the accent & wouldn't stop talking to him, I didn't mind he seemed so nice & helpful telling us what we should see. I was half tiddley by the time he sat down to order. Bob tried a new ale called Speckled Hen. He went to order the next one & called it a spotted chicken. It's hard to remember the names of things but he is fun to be with, they just don't get his Aussie humour. You see them looking funny at him.
Yesterday he told a lady walking up the street with a pram she had lost her baby, as it was empty. She had just bought it from an antique shop.
He's also taking the wrong turns here, I think he's getting a little distracted looking at all the bums on bikes here & following them instead.
Wish we had a pound for every time one of us said " Ah! Look at that "
We could afford to have another 2 months here.