Warning! Over 500 steps

IW: Wonderful
EW: Beautiful

That's the number of steps I had to take to walk up the Ramparts Walk and Guy's Tower in Warwick Castle. But it was worth the climb. The view from the tower was magnificent. And the best part was that the weather was just nice today for long walk. I think I walked for more than 4 hours without stopping eventhough the climb up the spiral staircases nearly took all my breathe away. The castle is just soooo huge.

Check out this link for more info on the castle:

http://www.cv81pl.freeserve.co.uk/warwick.htm

One thing I discovered during this trip was that eels were (still are today?) a delicacy among the royalties. They would have their servants trap their own eels to be served to their guests. Hmm...Eels remind me of Japan.

Anyway, it was a good trip. Will definitely want to visit the castle again in another time of the year. Especially since I didn't manage to visit the peacock garden. Also there weren't much flowers left for viewing at this time...


Britain's greatest medieval experience (photo taken from a postcard)

You call this Chinese Food?

Final day...
Internal weather: Improving
External weather: Initially just nice, but it ended on a bad note

Rice less than the size of my fist, sweet and sour chicken that tasted sweet only (sour, where art thou?) and crackers for dinner!!! My eyes nearly popped out when I saw the portion. I can't believe this is what I am getting on my last day...My friends had to buy biscuits to truly fill up their stomach. One even planning to go back to her room to cook porridge which I think she did. As for myself, I went back to my room and finished the walkers (sorry, can't post it to you, yen :) ).

Is this how I am gonna spend the rest of the year here?

p/s: Decided to be a bit adventurous tonight and tried orange and cranberry juice. Bad choice coz it was a bit sour which tends to make one feels hungry :(

Can it get any worse?

Third day...
Internal weather: Bad
External weather: Bad

Today was supposed to be a good day. Met my flatmates, opened my account, had the afternoon off...yet some things had to ruin it, triggering the sending out of an angry email.

And just when I thought things couldn't go any worse, the fire alarm went off while I was enjoying my nachos! I wanted to continue eating but was told to leave the hall immediately to gather outside where the rain had started! And so, me and my friends grabbed our stuffs (I took my chocolate mousse with me while my friend had to sacrificed her drink as she couldn't carry it along with her tesco shopping) and headed to the door. Cold, tired and half-hungry, we spotted a saviour who brought along an umbrella. And the four of us cuddled under the umbrella for probably 5 to 10 minutes before we were allowed to enter the building again. As we moved in, I overheard that it's a false alarm and that it could be just a practice session!!!

At this point, all I can say is "Good timing".