Made a bit of a slight mini-break out of this bank holiday and managed to integrate what’s normally a Bristol and straight back to Manchester trip out of seeing Kate’s eye Doctor into a nice relaxed 5-day trip.
It’s probably one of the last times if not the last time we’ll stay at Kate’s parents place in Weston-super-Mare as they are going to be moving up north so we made the most of it and tried to pack in all the things we had thought about doing down there.
We had an early start for Kate’s appointment so we drove over to Bristol, misjudging it slightly. So we went for a quick walk around the city – it’s such a nice city too. We’d heard about the Banksy exhibition at the Bristol Museum and were both keen to go – i’ve been into his stuff for some time. But we’d also heard that there was a 4 hour queue and basically you had to be there by 11.30 am or you wouldn’t get in at all that day. So we went down and looked by about 9 am and this was the state of it:
We thought about joining the back of it but could’t really face it that day. So we went home and I serviced the Lanos with Kate’s dad.
Kate decided we shouldn’t miss it though and resolved we would get up at 6am the next day and race down to Bristol. We got there about 6.50 and were about 10th in line, or so it seemed. When we turned the corner there was a lot more than that but at least we’d made it into the front holding section outside the museum and not the massive one on the road that was closed next door. Pretty happy with ourselves that this was the right thing to do and it would have been a shame not to take the opportunity (and only a few days before the exhibition finished on the 31st August). The nice staff let us in early at about 8.30 (we were expecting 9.30) after I’d jumped the fence to fetch coffee and cakes – using my nice shiny Visa PayWave card on the way – and immediately as we entered started grinning. It was really good!
As always more pictures here.
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