My last day off was in Bath, we were performing in Bristol. Our bus driver Paul is from Bath and had asked the 4 of us that were off if we’d be interested in going to a natural spa bath. They are like hot springs, but not as hot. It’s what Bath is known for. We all said yes, so he hooked us up with a free 2 hour spa session. It’s quite expensive and you get to go in the pools (one on the roof and one inside) of natural hot water and they also had aromatherapy steam rooms which were totally awesome. I felt like a celebrity being there, everything is really fancy. We went in the roof one first, it was nice that it wasn’t raining, it was neat to feel the contrast of being in hot water having the cold wind blow on your face. It’s like going in your outdoor hot tub in the winter time.
Everything in Bath is old and Victorian looking. It’s beautiful. I took a few photos. The day in Bath made up for the London day of getting lost.
I had a really great host family in Bristol too.
We then went to Weymouth, which is on the Southern Coast of England, very nice views, but the area wasn’t very safe. The dad in the family I stayed with was from Zimbabwe, he had an interesting accent living in England for 30 years. The house we stayed in was a previous Bed and Breakfast so it was really big, almost too big. I was afraid of getting lost in it.
In the morning we spent 30 minutes at the beach, it was cold, but we hadn’t been to the beach in forever so we wanted to experience it while we were there knowing we may not see it again on tour. We had a fabulous time, I forgot my camera on the bus :(
Next stop was Cheltenham. Just for one night, again a great host family and we all wished we could have stayed longer. It was raining like crazy the whole day we were there and then stopped in the morning when we were leaving. We have avoided a lot of rain on tour, but this past week has been every single day no matter where we are.
Currently in Gloucester and staying with a Jamaican family. I think almost everyone is because the church hosting us is primarily Jamaican. I never realized they had churches in England like that. Learn something new every day don’t ya? Anyway, their culture is very different from the UK. I can’t really describe it other than telling you my experience. My hosts are nice, but they haven’t really talked to us much. I’m used to being asked every kind of question you can think of, and they are just quiet and ask something if they need to otherwise they are quiet and keep to themselves. They made us food and left the dining room. They are just living their life as if we aren’t really there. It’s fine, it gives us freedom to do what we want, it’s just different. Some of the others have experienced the same with theirs. My hosts are singers, they have really good taste in music, I’ll say that.
On Thursday we are going to perform for the Prime Minister of England. Yes, that’s right. Sadly, the queen won’t be there. Afterwards we have been given a Choir Christmas present of going on the London Eye! I’m so so so so excited. 1) because I was planning on doing that on my day off in London, if it was the one thing I got to do- but then didn’t have time due to getting lost and 2) because we get to go as a whole choir, and things like that are so much fun with the kids around. It’s going to be a fun surprise for the kids when they find out, they have seen it already when they visited.
We only have 3 church concerts left. I can’t believe it. I knew time would go fast, but it’s going crazy fast. Even the kids are shocked. Were trying to get things packed up because we won’t have our bus with us in about a week. We will be going to Southern Ireland and renting a bus to get us around while we are there for December.
P.S. I had canned corn beef with rice for dinner. It's one of the more interesting things I've had here.
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