Fat Tony!
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Off to visit Aberystwith, wales to check out the university. Long journey with many hillarious and interesting occurances. It was a very long journey approximately 240 miles, travelled with my daddums and enough music to last a week. Firstly we had just turned off from my dear little town, Faversham off onto the M2 motorway and almost immidiately we noticed that there were two individuals having a deadly duel of wits and pure strength, two lorry drivers were faced off against each other, very funny: One driver was an inch behind the other and then proceeded to overtake the over but leave a inch between them so the other driver proceeds to overtake him again, so blocking up the entire stretch of the motorway and this continued for a good 5 minutes until one gave way. It's amazing how stubborn lorry drivers are, they always get in the way and only cause trouble 
well it is funny all the same. The rest of the journey in England was boring, M25 roadworks, M4 being a long and boring stretch and M20 and M26 being just confusing. The fun part was in Wales, we drove over the bridge which took us from England to wales and there was a toll bridge which cost us a £5 to cross, bloody rip-off. But what was bloody cheeky was that the next day when we went back home they didn't charge us anything! Bloody welsh . I had never been to Wales before and was suprised, once into wales the boring English environment transformed into huge hills with great character, it was very impressive. Everywhere I went the welsh were great, always happy to see you, the B+B we stayed in was cheap and pleasent with yet more friendly Welsh owners. We were staying high into the hills and were suprised by snow! It snowed 3 times, sure it didn't settle but it was so unusual to see snow in south east England. The only bad side to the Welsh was their ability to driver :rolling:, on roads with a 50ft drop and minor barriers, the Welsh were speeding past us at 80 MPH, overtaking on bends and tailgating us because we were going oh so slow at 40/50 . Aberystwith was impressive too, a Coastal town with a backdrop of the mountains/rocky hills. There were loads of pubs I noticed and the town was so small It could be crossed by bike in about 10-15 minutes if you pretended you had a magic bike that could go up steep hills easily. The university was also great, with a good reception and impressive staff, they gave some statistics that seemed a bit dodgy at the time but it seems to make so much sense: 3rd in the UK for Geography and Earth sciences after oxford and Cambridge, best house prices in UK, 93% of people got employment from their career after 6 months with a U.K average of 63%, a record for the most amount of pubs in a square KM and bloody loads of staff covering a large range of Geography subjects in one university. There was a possibility to travel to loads of different places such as new zealand, Iceland, do university exchanges with American students, go and study in Antartica and many other things. With field trips into the hills so very near by with rivers and the coast to study at your doorstep. TBH my other main choice, Plymouth has to come up with something amazing to make me want to go there. I don't know why Wales is thought as boring and not a great place to live, I'd much prefere to live there then England, although I haven't seen much of wales and I haven't seen all of England.
well it is funny all the same. The rest of the journey in England was boring, M25 roadworks, M4 being a long and boring stretch and M20 and M26 being just confusing. The fun part was in Wales, we drove over the bridge which took us from England to wales and there was a toll bridge which cost us a £5 to cross, bloody rip-off. But what was bloody cheeky was that the next day when we went back home they didn't charge us anything! Bloody welsh . I had never been to Wales before and was suprised, once into wales the boring English environment transformed into huge hills with great character, it was very impressive. Everywhere I went the welsh were great, always happy to see you, the B+B we stayed in was cheap and pleasent with yet more friendly Welsh owners. We were staying high into the hills and were suprised by snow! It snowed 3 times, sure it didn't settle but it was so unusual to see snow in south east England. The only bad side to the Welsh was their ability to driver :rolling:, on roads with a 50ft drop and minor barriers, the Welsh were speeding past us at 80 MPH, overtaking on bends and tailgating us because we were going oh so slow at 40/50 . Aberystwith was impressive too, a Coastal town with a backdrop of the mountains/rocky hills. There were loads of pubs I noticed and the town was so small It could be crossed by bike in about 10-15 minutes if you pretended you had a magic bike that could go up steep hills easily. The university was also great, with a good reception and impressive staff, they gave some statistics that seemed a bit dodgy at the time but it seems to make so much sense: 3rd in the UK for Geography and Earth sciences after oxford and Cambridge, best house prices in UK, 93% of people got employment from their career after 6 months with a U.K average of 63%, a record for the most amount of pubs in a square KM and bloody loads of staff covering a large range of Geography subjects in one university. There was a possibility to travel to loads of different places such as new zealand, Iceland, do university exchanges with American students, go and study in Antartica and many other things. With field trips into the hills so very near by with rivers and the coast to study at your doorstep. TBH my other main choice, Plymouth has to come up with something amazing to make me want to go there. I don't know why Wales is thought as boring and not a great place to live, I'd much prefere to live there then England, although I haven't seen much of wales and I haven't seen all of England.
