Quiet week and weekend
// March 30th, 2009 // No Comments » // Trip information
Exeter Cathedral
Well the first week and weekend were pretty quiet. We spent Wednesday, Thursday and Friday looking for jobs (still no luck on that front). Mel and I caught the train to Exeter and did all the touristy things. We saw the Exeter Cathedral, and also the historic Quay. On Saturday Mel and I went for a walk to Exmouth. It is a really nice walk, took an hour to get there, walking along the picturesque coastline. After an hours walk we were quite hungry, so we stopped in to get fish (well hamburger) and chip, and it only cost us 3.50 each which is the cheapest meal we have had to date.
We were both wrecked so we did the lazy thing and jumped on the train back. Only 90p to get back.
I then watched Man Utd lose on the TV, very disappointing!!
Sunday/Monday
Both days were quiet as well. Took that time to finish my website, which is now online www.brayza.com
On Monday Mel, Bianca and I went to Exeter, and Bianca and I got a haircut. Bianca then went home and Mel and I went to the Exeter Underground Passages. Under Exeter there are these passages that were built in the 1100s that the Medieval Church built to run water to the Cathedral. It was amazing, and the tourist guide was fantastic. Just before WWII the city ran their own tunnels that latched onto the cathedrals one for water as well. They are pretty amazing, they dug up all the ground, then put the blocks down, ran the pipes under the ground, then covered over with the soil again. They then changed this in the 1400s cause the pipes would spring leaks very often and they had to keep digging up the road to fix them. Thats when they invented manholes to get into the tunnels. The tunnels were very small but fascinating, apparently over 400 people hid their in WWII and they all survived the bombings.
