A lovely weekend in Bristol

We're just back from a fab weekend in Bristol with Helen and Steve. It's been very relaxing - we drove down on Friday afternoon and apart from a bit of traffic on the M1, we had a clear run. Starting early meant that we got there at 5:45! Brilliant for a Friday night. Needless to say we made the most of it - I think it was well after midnight when we crashed - many bottles of wine later!

On Saturday we went for a nice walk into town - it was about 4 miles in the end as we came up to the downs and got a beautiful view of the Clifton suspension bridge. How lovely to be able to walk to this!!!

Anyway, we then ended up sitting in a nice pub (The Albion) for a coffee and a pint (or 2). A hair of the dog for the night before.

We followed on the evening at a nice restaurant in Clifton Village for early dinner - and then grabbed a taxi home for a pleasant evening in front of the 'X-factor' and 'Strictly'!!!

Today (Sunday) we had great plans for going down into the town centre, wandering about and taking in the harbour and surrounding areas....however, the weather had a slightly different idea....proceeding to absolutely chuck it down all morning and making us rather disinclined to leave the house. So we didn't! We've sat around drinking coffee and then had leftovers from Friday's lovely dinner, for lunch!

We left a bit earlier than usual - about 2:45 - in order to try and get home before dark. Didn't quite make it but we were home by 6 and now we're cooking in the warm lounge with the fire turned right up!