Spring contd...

Unfortunately, the summer-like weather I mentioned in my last post has come and gone. It was phenomenal while it lasted though and Bristol was practically vibrating with all the frenetic activity and energy on display. We've never seen the harbour area so busy. Many new activities became available, including bungee jumping from a crane. We weren't tempted to try it.

All the students were out lounging along the harbour walls with a few hundred of their closest friends.

A lot of the historic boats moored in the harbour, including the 'Matthew' replica and 'Pyronaut', were offering harbour tours and it was nice to see them moving around. The small steam train was also plying the sidewalk, offering rides.

That evening, it was fun to see a 'silent disco', a 'thing' we had never heard of. We were enjoying a warm evening's quiet stroll along the harbourside when we noticed a huge crowd of people, each with fluorescent headsets lighting up the night, bobbing around to the same beat. It looked very weird, but, they were having a great time and so were we, not being bombarded with unwanted noise.

Temperatures soon cooled off, but, the sun did remain for a couple of days and provided us the opportunity to revisit Leigh Woods, in search of bluebells. They had blossomed in the warmth and were everywhere.

There were many others out in the woods as well. We came across a woman walking her six! dogs. These two Westies were lollygagging behind the rest of their pack.

We followed up the bluebell search with a walk down into the Avon Gorge and back into town along the Avon river.

In North America, nothing says spring like seeing that first robin. The robins here are not the big, oversize American Robin, which is actually a thrush, but, the petite, rotund and very lovely European robin.