English Country-side

Well, we have arrived in Teignmouth!

It was a really nice bus ride, actually. We sat in the front seat in the upper part of a double decker city bus, and rode for 4 hours all the way to Exeter from Poole for only £5! (Then John picked us up in Exeter and drove us the last half hour to Teignmouth.) It was weird cause it was such a long ride on a commuter bus, but it was really great cause we got such a good view. There were definitely a lot of neat things to see. At one point we saw where someone cut into their field to make it look like a man riding a horse.

We took a really scenic route that took us all along the southern British coastline. For a lot of way you could see out over the English channel. (Don't mind some reflection from the windows on the bus i the picture.) We got to see a lot of the English country-side and a whole bunch of small villages that travellers usually don't see if they take the main road.


The roads are really bloody narrow! The roads are only wide enough for about one and a half cars to pass through comfortably. The bus had to squeeze past in a bunch of places. There was even one place where all these cars had to pull over in order for us to pass. Sometimes cars would have to go up on the sidewalk or into the bushes and some even had to pull their side-view mirrors in so that we didn't hit them. Apparently, though, this is just common place driving over here. Also, drivers are constantly driving into on-coming traffic to pass each other. Troe's family here said that people drive like this all of the time. Everyone seems to have a fairly casual attitude towards doing whatever they want while they're in their cars.

Now we are at John's house in Teignmouth. It is huge! They have six bedrooms, two kitchens, two dinning rooms, three living rooms, several bathrooms, a butler's pantry, and a bunch of other rooms. And all the rooms are pretty big too and they have high ceilings. It's really nice.

We'll be here for a few days at least, so maybe we'll see some of you on messenger or something.