The Roamens knew how to pamper

So I remember hearing a story once about how Kyle Horton had a friend from Ireland that he took to get dinner at a pizza place. It was funny because he talked about how he had to essentially translate for the Irish guy to the waiter, and when he asked for beer with his meal, he was shocked that they didn't have alcohol and exclaimed "no beer?!?" This story suddenly makes much more sense to me. It is essentially unheard of to have a restaurant here that doesn't serve alcohol. A lot of the times I will get meal deals that have the drink included, and when I don't order and alcoholic drink, they get confused and normally discount it for me. Even in the grocery store next to the pre-made sandwiches and salads they have personal sized bottles of wine. It's a really strange concept to be in a country with such lax alcohol laws after growing up in a place where it's a huge deal.

I met some texans this morning from midland. Not only did they know Cloudcroft, but we shared a moment of silence for the lack of Mexican food over here. They've been traveling since January, and they still have yet to find anything to satisfy their craving for it. 

In Brighton I met a hairdresser that was in Cambodia for the last two years, and he just came back, and was looking for a flat to live in Brighton. He decided he wanted to come back and do hair, but not in the London area anymore. He made my last night in Brighton really fun,  and between him and a guy from Spain we were all on the floor laughing by the end of the night. The guy from Spain went to a salsa class and when he came back he was telling us that it is essential that a woman has good smelling skin to have a good dace. The way foreigners word sentences will forever crack me up. Brighton also had the most massive shopping area I have ever seen. Especially over here in the UK it seemed out of place. There is a chain around here called boots which is a pharmacy, sephora, Walgreens type store all in one. It was the size of the Alamogordo mall, with a second story as well. They had an indoor shopping mall like I'm used to, and there were no random grocery stores thrown in either. It was bigger than the El Paso mall, and I got lost multiple times, and never found where I had originally come in. One of the more strange stores of here is a M&S or marks and Spenser's. the best way I can describe it is like a Dillard's, but then you just randomly find a grocery store in the middle of it, and a cafe off to the side. It is the biggest grocery store I have found in Bath so far, and you would never know it had groceries by the looks of it. 

Bath is great, it's amazing seeing these 1000 year old buildings and just knowing that where you were standing is where Roman soldiers used to come. It was religious grounds, and the Bath Abby is gorgeous as well. Nothing like the York Minister, but very impressive.

Right outside bath Abby is the big square with benches just lining the area, and I sat and people watched for a while just to rest my feet before I was ready to eat. It's graduation day for one of the university's here so it was mostly people in caps and gowns running around outside. I also found an amazing gelato shop, and I had black cheery gelato and grape gelato. Both were so good, and the grapes made me remember how much I loved frozen grapes. I could literally spend all of my money there just eating gelato all day. After the gelato I decided I had a craving for some pizza, and so I found a real Italian cafe (when I say cafe, it still served wine and liqueur) and I instantly felt like I was in Italy. I say that because it'd run by Italians that don't speak English and their menu is in Italian. I asked for a small pizza, or a personal size and ended up with three pieces of toast, with goats cheese, pesto, un-identifiable meat, and tomatoes.

It didn't taste awful, but it wasn't pizza. 

I'm going to take a quick nap while it rains and go back out once it dies up (fingers crossed it will).