In the Desert of the Heart

After Christmas met Dave back in London and spent a night downing pints with him, after which we went to Bristol to celebrate the New Years and eat sausages and mash and drink cider.

Dave's flatmate's name is Chris who was also on JET in Nagasaki-ken.

Dave and Chris on the motorway:



On New Year's Eve we drove to South Wales to see Tintern Abbey and Chepstow Castle. There's a Wordsworth poem with Tintern Abbey in the title, but if you read it you'll see that nowhere in the poem does he actually mention the abbey itself. Regardless, it's a beautiful place, and as we were approaching the clouds broke and a rainbow shone down directly on the ruins:



Walking around the ruins of the abbey put me in a pensive mood, (here lost in contemplation):




While Dave and Chris were merely gobsmacked:




Next post: microdancing and armchair raving!!