a few golden english days

Corbin and I are certainly doing our best to get our four days' worth. We have walked all over this city multiple times, eating at fun places and visiting pretty things. Every day in this adorable B&B starts with our home-cooked full English breakfast, consisting of toast, bacon, fried sausage, an egg, beans/mushrooms, and of course a nice hot cup of tea.

Today we had the advantage of a particularly beautiful day--yesterday was quite cloudy--and we walked for awhile along the Thames before heading into town. The absolutely beautiful Christchurch (you know--the Harry Potter Great Hall?) has particularly fantastic gardens, so we took our Sainsbury's purchased Kinder Surprise eggs and our cameras there to relax.

To the right are the products of our Kinder Surprise fun: I got the Donkey from Shrek, which I put together, and Corbin got a rather complicated little sailboat. Naturally, Donkey had to take a trip around the meadows! We plan on playing with the sailboat in the bathroom sink in a bit.

Come tea time, we headed to Cafe Loco for a traditional cream tea, which consists of--along with tea, obviously--some delicious scones with real clotted cream and strawberry jam. We gobbled them up and then sipped tea for awhile before heading back to the bed-and-breakfast, which is where we are now--resting our poor tired feet, browsing the Internet, and in some of our cases, updating a blog and researching the best pay-as-you-go phone plans. I'm currently leaning towards T-mobile, if you were concerned.

Anyway, it's probably nearing dinnertime, and we should start thinking about where we want to eat/drink/be merry. We have one more day together before Corbin has to leave, and by George, we're going to do some awesome stuff!