Make way, we're heading out!

Today Libby showed me around her campus and it was so very pretty.  Although there has been a university on the site for a very long time, the majority of the buildings were built after 1950.  It sits atop a hill and is a compact university setting.  I saw this sign on campus, and she claims it's pronounced /ZEY-brah/.  I secretly think they have stripped animals on campus. 

After our campus tour, she made us a delicious lunch of bangers and mash, which is sausage, mashed potatoes, peas, and an onion brown gravy and it s delicious!  She's a great cook!  Can't wait for her to come home and cook for me. 

Then she needed to get ready to head off with the University band to go to Paris to busk in the street, visit Disneyland Paris, and do whatever it is university band kids do.  After a brief practice, they were going to meet at the Impe (/imp-y/) pub before riding a coach and ferry to overnight to Paris. The Impe is the neat this pub she took me to for the fish and chips on my first night in the most clever old home.  This room is called the Orangerie. 

This meant I was on my own once again.  I headed off to the train station in an absolute driving rainstorm, which ceased as soon as I hit the station.  I got my tickets from the self serve kiosk but the trains don't have a number associated with them like flights, so you need to know the end destination of the train.  I always forget this, and so had to ask.  I lugged my now giant suitcase-oh, wait!  There's another story.  On the way TO Libby, my little pink suitcase handle started to lose the screws and the arms of the telescoping handle got very wobbly.  I intended to duct tape the handle together and even got the supplies and gave it a go.  In the end, it didn't seem like it was going to hold through three more train juries and two flights so I dashed up to the department store and bought new luggage-yay!  And because Libby had asked me to bring home about the equivalent of another carry one suitcase, I bought a bigger one. I can still lift it though-for now. 

I did manage to get myself to Bath through shear luck, seriously. Only narrowly not missing my connecting train by being completely clueless.  Then, got to my accommodations in the darkening late evening.  The train ride was lovely-although this part of the country has had a LOT of rain!

Tomorrow, I will explore Bath for a bit and then venture to London and take the Eurostar to Paris...if all goes according to plan.