Bristol and Salisbury, England

After a long and tedious trip from Costa Rica to Bristol we have fallen into the tender and generous excessive care of Mhairi MacKay. The English summer is behaving exceedingly well and it is a shock to us all to be in a place with an abundance of our "normal food", general tidiness, an excess of tea (if you care for such things) and people speaking English. All this and the place is uncharacteristically cheerful as the English have progressed to the second round of the World Cup (albeit with pretty ordinary performances although this doesn't seem to have upset the locals).
So while in Bristol in the lovely hands of Mhairi for a week we have hired a car to travel around the west of England from her base in Bristol and today went to Salisbury (lovely cathedral, quintessential village with delightful buildings) and Stonehenge which Ciaran in particular thought was fabulous.
And Romany's treat was a face painting at the Bristol Zoo - truly a busmans holiday after our time in the National Parks of Costa Rica but a good time was had by all.