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Round the World - Day 4 - travel to UK


Day 4 - travel to UK 2006-06-20
 
Pretty uneventful stuff we travelled to Heathrow and checked through - very quick and easy and went straight to a meeting.  The best bit was that HERTZ just had to upgrade us to a brand new Mercedes Benz 4WD.  Awesome car.  The navigation system has a very nice young ladies voice and very helpful - but as with the eternal debate of navigating between men and women - if you don't do what she says she then chooses to ignore you!!!

Any way we had a good meeting with the poms who were slightly taken aback when we decided to drive to Scotland - I think road travel culture betwen aussies and poms are slightly different.

That nght we stayed at Bristol and wndered around - we went to a bar that is claimed to be the pub the Robert Louis Stevenson based the opening chapter of Treasure Island on - and I think it might be a credible claim - very nice pub so old that none of the walls are straight - in a tudor blackand white style - v. nice.

Anyway we went for a wander to a restaurant recommended to us and Bob announced quite emphatically that it had no atmosphere.  So in good faith we continued on until a pub was spotted - Bob wanted an english pub with a fire and leather seats - and this one fitted the bill.  Unfortunately besides a couple of locals of dubious social standing there was not much else  - Nick and I tolerated this for one beer and virtually frogmarched Bob out to the restauraunt we spotted before.

Well it was one of the most memorable meals I have ever had - It was a fish restaraunt which imports all its fish and seafoood from it's own company in Scotland- the food was to die for - Salmon was the speciality and we even prized put a few of the recipes from the chef.  The staff were awesome - and our waitress was a spitting image of a good friend of ours at home (except this girl was a bit younger) Well satisfied we strolled back to the hotel for a night's well earned sleep.

We are doing our best to account for the jet-lag but I am still waking up bright and early at a regular 4am timeslot
 
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