NDBT

I’m kind of punch-drunk at the moment, so I apologize in advance when this isn’t a very coherent entry.

The Eden project was really lovely. It used to be an abandoned clay pit, and they turned it into gardens and biodomes and lots and lots of plants. And yummy fair trade organic cafes (I managed to get a rice/hummus/tomato chutney/olive-bean-pepper salad). They had a tropics biodome, which concentrated on imports from the tropics, the importance of crop diversity, fairtrade, etc. And a temperate chapparral biodome (yay South Africa and California). And lots of sculptures. And an educational building that was all sustainable and pretty (it looked like a pinecone, or a head of cauliflower or something). So – I had a good time.

Oh – and I saw a St. Piran’s day parade with the local kids (its a Cornish thing). I liked Cornwall a lot. Very cute, english seaside town – sort of what you’d expect (except – in the middle of this one winding cobbly avenue with little houses and pubs, there is this GIANT 3 story geometric house, painted in red with tilted columns, and papyrus murals, and paintings of sarcoghagi (?). It’s called the egyptian house. Its weird.)

Then – today? I guess I went to plymouth (right – so – I didn’t care that much about titangel, and the museum in boscastle is closed till easter, and it turns out the Jamaica inn is not near bodmin parkway train station nor bodmin town, but really way the back of beyond, so that’s why I am no longer going those places. Someday when I come back and have a car and it isn’t winter, I guess. I sort of meant to spend more time in Cornwall, but oh well.) So I decided to see the national aquarium in plymouth. Plymouth was very lovely – the main drag was all pedestrian with gardens, and there was a very nice harbor. And a historic distric that was very windy and cobbly. The aquarium was nice (oh – there was no luggage service at the train station and no coat room at the aquarium, so I probably squashed my spine from carrying my whole bag around with me….) They had britains largest/ Europes deepest tank (lots of fish and a couple of sharks, a couple of other good large tanks, and a giant squid (dead – 3.5m without its feeding tentacles). So I sat and watched the fish for a while and then went back to get the bus (trains from plymouth are being worked on). I was going to go to Salisbury, but the hostel was booked up (good thing I called ahead!) so I’m staying in Exeter tonight. Exeter is nice – sort of large. Lots of pretty large architecture, catacombs apparently (by a park I was walking by). I went to a veggie restaurant tonight to splurge (dahl and a warm walnut/artichoke/tofu salad that was to DIE FOR – I miss tofu. I never get to eat it out on the road). Tomorrow I’ll be heading to salisbury to check in at my hostel, and heading up to Glastonbury, which is quite the day of travel for not a long time there, but how can I miss where the grail/ Avalon are suppossed to be? Oh – theoretically the train today passed by dartmoor, but I don’t think I could see it properly from the tracks (it certainly didn’t look as I remember it being described in the hound of the baskervilles…). So tomorrow (knock on wood) glastonbury, and the day after stonehenge/avebury.
Lots of the windows here have that droplet-look-thing going, which always reminds me of sleepy hollow.
I saw The Fountain was playing at Leiscter square, and I decided not to go see it, since it was the afternoon before the moustrap (plus the whole why-are-you-in-a-movie-theater-when-you-are-in-london? thing) but now I can’t find it ANYWHERE! I’m sad about this.

For those of you with tv: from EW: South Park returns March 7 for an 11th season on Comedy Central, and though we don’t need to tell you that creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone still deliver after all these years, the fact that EW has dubbed their premiere our “Must Watch of the Week” — without actually knowing what it’s about — does kinda say it. What speaks even louder: Neither the duo nor the network will be revealing the plot of the episode before it debuts, period. “If it got out what it was,” Parker says, “someone would try to stop us from doing it before it got on the air.” Impending controversy? Hooray!

EW has also started posting sesame street moments from our childhood years. They had the one on how orange crayons were made. I loved that one! Kids are so weird.  I tried looking up the old mill on youtube, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. It has been a glorious day outside, but between the sun and hauling my whole bag around with me for about 3 hours, I need to go pass out. Yes, I’m aware its not yet nine.

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