Wow! Had a fabulous Easter break! From Friday - Sunday I went up to the Peak District with my friend and had a fabulous time. It's an incredibly beautiful part of the country, and we were able to do some hiking and lots of driving through little stone villages and walking through fields of sheep. It would be great to go back and do some proper hiking at some point. We hadn't really planned on doing too much walking, so when we got there, we were the dorky looking jeans-rolled-up-to-our knees-to-keep-them-from-getting-muddy, un-weather protected pair amongst all of the people in their raincoats and proper hiking attire. We weren't quite as bad as the smoking-while-hiking pair we saw, but we still felt rather novice! It seems that Northerners are a very friendly lot as well. If you can understand a word they're saying, that is. On our way up we stopped at a little pub in a little, little town, and I seriously had to question if the people at the bar were speaking English. I'll definitely be going back there again - probably several times!
I saw my first live football match on Monday. It was quite fun. The highlight was the police coming onto the field at the end to ensure we didn't riot. I thought it would have been fun to try to start one and then sneak quietly out the back, but my friend Rich advised me that one only starts riots on other people's fields - not one's own because one doesn't want to ruin one's home team's pitch. I thought that was a point-well-taken so I will save my riot starting until another game.
Well, it's time for the day to start...
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