We arrived at Bath yesterday afternoon, swiftly booked into a caravan park and immediately looked for a mechanic to fix our sick mate Callum. We found a great mechanic who said he could fix our van.... unfortunately it was too tall to fit into the shop. He suggested another guy up the road that "wouldn't rip us off too much" but suggested we adopt a slight English accent and say that we're looking at moving to the area.... we laughed at his "joke" after which he said "no seriously".... So we walked around to the other mechanic and spoke to him briefly in our best English speak regarding our dodgy clutch and he said he could fix it on Monday coming for 480 pounds plus another 100 for a service. We're really happy with this price as we were expecting in excess of 1000 pounds. (The Griffioen family has a habbit of visiting the UK and breaking clutches, fortunately for us we're in an English speaking country).
Today we spent walking around Bath town and jumped on the tourist bus for a look at the most famous sites of the city. The Georgian architecture is similar to that of London but on a smaller scale. They do however have an amazing "Circus" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circus_(Bath) in Bath which is one of the centre pieces of all of the buildings within the city. We had a picnic lunch of banana sandwiches and a pear in the park that we had to pay an entrance fee of 1 pound each! bullshit!
Thats us for the afternoon, we've written this in The Bell pub which is what looks to be a dodgy local but has free WiFi and fairly decent beer which isn't hard when you drink any sort of beer. We're back off to the campervan now to enjoy a few beers in the sun.. Thats right, sunlight till 10:30 at night!!!
A&J
PS - Jamie says a big HI to all of her mates at work who she misses so much! xo
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- Andrew and Jamie Griffioen
- Andrew and Jamie are a married couple from Brisbane, Australia. We have embarked on an overseas adventure for 6 months leaving in April and returning in October. We plan to cover the UK and a lot of Europe. To see more details, check out our posts below.
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ReplyDeleteThat would be right re your clutch! At least your sister and Gravy picked a better place (Netherlands) and they were given a grand tour around the Ijsel Lake by Mijni.
ReplyDeleteGuys, please do put your name if you post on here... A bit of a guessing game! :)
ReplyDeleteANDREW
hey mate, miss you heaps too!!! Lots been happening at work!!!
ReplyDeleteMel.P xx
Good to hear you made it to Germany, sad to hear about the clutch and tae think you bought that vehicle from a Scot!! Hope you get to see the Australia V Germany game tomorrow and you can catch up with John Cook. I must admit that I am not at all confident regarding that game, maybe the Germans wont turn up!! All the photos are great and its fantastic that you are having such a wonderful time. Are you still flying to Berlin or is John catching up with you elsewhere? Take care and enjoy your pub crawl, sorry I meant holiday. I'm only jealous!!
ReplyDeletecheers,
Sam.