As you might have noticed, I have a lot of wonderful family in the UK. Wednesday was a day of visiting my cousins and the Bournemouth connections of aunts and uncles. It wasn't really a touristy day, other than bowling, but it was well spent catching up with the news and seeing all the homes. Today, was more of the same.
We drove up through thick misting rain and headed back for another day with great granny. We drew pictures, and visited and reintroduced her to my brother. As she had a lunch to be at, we went to visit the Chichester cathedral. This church has the uniqueness of having a detached bell tower, roman mosaic remains under the floor and mice carved into some of the furniture. I was hoping for pipe organ playing, but got mouse hunting instead. It was far too wet to be outside anyway.
After the church option was completed, we opted to go to the new Chichester museum called the Novium. For the whopping 23.00 it cost for us to enter, we spent five minutes looking at the first floor excavation of roman foundations. We climbed the stairs to the second floor to discover a small room of books, and an open concept cube display of life in Chichester. A busy, blurred view of basic artifacts chosen to tell the story of city life, I think. It was difficult to read as the artifacts all blended together. School children raced through the space and were much more interesting to listen to so that took 10 minutes. Most of our time, and additional 30 minutes, was spent exploring the drawers on the subjects of bravery, joy, beauty, sorrow and something else. The children were engaged by the costumes and pull out drawers, but the collection felt so sparse. For the amount of money spent on this new facility, I would suggest that you have a nice window. Sorry, that it leaks. But, really, for the price, we would have been better off somewhere else. Like a restaurant or shopping...or fishbourne. Wait, they were closed. Never mind, why would we want to see that on a weekday. Oh right, people only visit museums on the weekend in this country. This has been an ongoing issue with this trip. So much is closed. I guess schools don't visit them much, which is a shame with such good resources.
So, it was onto another cousins for a lovely dinner after a last visit with granny. Then home to plot the adventures for tomorrow. Now, to find double decker bus in Exeter....here's hoping. And maybe a castle that is open?
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