The weekend provided a great time where each of the participants could explore the city (or the country!) to their hearts content. Many of the Japanese students spent some of the weekend in London or at Stone Henge. I (Caroline) met up with Jasmine and Giovanni to have a quick exploration of the St. Paul's festival. It was amazing, there were so many people in the streets and squares, drinking, dancing, and generally having a great time together. People must have came from all around Bristol to attend, it really shows what life and soul the city has!
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| Giovanni and Jasmine relaxing in a square at St. Paul's festival. |
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| One of the many outside parties/clubs. |
On Sunday, my boyfriend James visited from Southampton (urged by my claims of "Bristol is amazing! You have to visit and meet all of the awesome RENKEI people!"), and so James, Ruth, Taka, Jasmine and myself headed to the beautiful historic city of Bath. There we bumped into Toshi, and met up with Jill for a bite to eat in a shaded garden of a cafe. We then went to explore the famous Roman baths, next to the cathedral. Everything was so interesting and impressive, and combining the ancient history with the amazing weather and the "holiday spirit", it felt more like Rome or Athens than anywhere in the UK. However the UK it was, so I can add Bath to one of my favourite cities, along with Bristol.
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| Bath Abbey - one of my favourite pictures, but it could be improved by adding any of our very-good-looking RENKEI people! |
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| Ruth, Taka, myself, and Jasmine at the Roman Baths. |
We all met back up on Sunday evening for a reunion buffet at the hotel, where we could share our tales of adventure (and celebrate the tennis scores, go Andy!). However, a lot of people headed to bed early, to recover from our action-packed weekend, and prepare for our even-more-action-packed week ahead!
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