We woke up at 10:30am. We weren’t in any hurry today. We will be at this hotel for a total of four nights. It is so nice to be staying put for a little while! I made pancakes for breakfast, while Davin took a morning bath. I watched an episode of Voyager while I made the pancakes. Then we watched another episode of Voyager while we ate the pancakes. I was so happy that making pancakes worked! It was just slow going because I had to make small flap jack sized pancakes in the pot, and could only make one at a time. In the end, we didn’t get out of the hotel until 1:30pm.
We drove to Derwent Valley Mills. I hadn’t done enough research of the site however, so we were unsure where to go. There are many buildings that make up the Derwent Valley Mill World Heritage Site. We saw several places that could be part of the site but we decided we should just come back tomorrow because we wouldn’t have much time to see anything before it closed.
Davin wanted to go to Sherwood Forest, so we went there instead. We drove to Robin Hood’s Sherwood Forest and got a picture with a Sherwood Forest sign. It was a nice forest park, and it was a nice sunny day so we walked the path to Major Oak. According to the signs, Major Oak is over 1000 years old and is a world famous tree. People come from all over the world to visit it and Sherwood Forest. I think it’s funny that so many small, seemingly insignificant places that we visit have such far reaching claims. It seems like even the smallest corners of the world have some claim to historic fame. We enjoyed our visit to Sherwood. It was nice to take a leisurely stroll through nature for a change.
Back at the car we ate our baguette Indian lunch (at 4:30pm). It was Davin’s idea to recreate the baguettes we bought in London. We picked up a Tikka Masala from Tesco last night and a baguette. Then we simply cut the baguette open, spooned in the Masala, and we had two delicious sandwiches.
After lunch, we drove to the city of Nottingham just to see it. It looked like any
modern day city! Duh. Unfortunately, we got caught in rush hour traffic trying to get back out of the city. Some more observations on British road rules. It’s very annoying that cars are allowed to park the wrong way on road. It is especially confusing to drivers from countries where driving on the right side of the road is normal. In addition, cars are allowed to park on curbs of one lane roads. This blocks traffic going that direction, and they have to wait until there is an opening in traffic going the other direction in order to go (by briefly driving on the wrong side of the road to go around the parked car)! It’s ridiculous.
We finally made it back to hotel service station at 6:20pm but continued past to go to grocery store. I said it would take at least 40 minutes for the errand. D didn’t believe it. Turned out I was optimistic. It took an hour and ten minutes! D says he is tired of Tesco, tired of shopping, and tired of Britain. He wants a change of scenery. He is tired of daily tasks like grocery shopping. And he thinks it was kind of ridiculous we bought ingredients to make pancakes. I said I thought so too but had gone along with it because he had wanted to do it. D said he thought that I was the one who had wanted to do it! What a miscommunication! Still, I think it’s cool that making pancakes worked with our primitive set up.
We were back at the room by 7:30pm. D and I went to use the internet next door. D left after checking MarketWatch and looking up some questions we had on Memory Alpha (Star Trek Wiki). Then I mapped the areas we needed for tomorrow. I figured out which of the Derwent Valley Mill locations were worth visiting. When I finished, I chatted with Scott until my computer battery died. I went back to room at 9:30pm, made our spaghetti dinner and watched a Voyager. Then I showered, and D watched the Voyager that he had missed because he was in the bath this morning. Lastly, I wrote blog bulletpoints, and we went to bed at 12:30am.
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