Mark woke at 5am to the sound of a T-Rex in the room in the guise of Tims snoring. It was another 5 hours until the others were up and awake so he'd finished all games on his iPad by then, written a novel and recalculated the event horizon.
It was another hot one today, 36c and we had the day to ourselves in Bordeaux. Obviously with such temperatures we forgot to put any sun cream on and spent the day running from shadow to shadow like some crazed vampire.
We had cake for breakfast and then tried to book a Segway tour as reviews were good although they were hard to find. No shit, they moved offices, changed their phone number and didn't update it on their website, published another number that didn't work and when we did find their shop it was closed. They had another phone number on the shop so Tommo called, left a message and we never heard back.
We decided to do some shopping, Tim wanted some sunglasses so we went into a sunglasses shop, didn't buy anything and then walked out. On the way out Tim closed the door on Mark which hit him in the face breaking his sunglasses. We came out of the shop with less pairs than we went in with.
More walking, and we found ourselves in the Nigerian district. There weren't as many knife shops there, but lots of halal fried chicken stores. Not far there was a massive meat market so we went there for a look. Unfortunately it's closed on a Monday but we got to see the outside and that's just as good.
Back into the centre of town Tim eventually did buy some more sunglasses although the main reason for going into the shop was to get some aircon. We figured it was like saying we paid to cool down and also got a free pair of sunglasses.
It was about 3pm now and Mark and Tim were getting hungry and fancied a burger. We scoured the town but most places were just closing and for some reason nowhere sold burgers. After dragging ourselves from one side of town to another we settled on an Italian place and ordered some food. Tommo thought it best to get a small something too. When the food eventually turned up it was huge and well worth the wait. Even Scooby Doo would have struggled with the burger.
To complete our lazy day we went back to the hotel for an afternoon snore which we were all glad of.
Feeling refreshed we preped the bikes so that they'd be ready for tomorrow and took a stroll into town towards beer. We had a quick couple at random bars before going to the Grand Hotel's rooftop bar. It was £12 a drink but it was worth it with great views of the sunset and a good vibe.
We just had the one there and then headed to a place that we'd dubbed 'old mans bar' as it looked like a dingy place full of locals. It was pretty cool in there and Steve even found a statue of cheesy.
It was kebab time so we sat outside some pop up kebab house and stuffed our faces with meat before returning to old mans bar. It had transformed. It was now pumping out tunes and was full of chicks so we hung out there for the rest of the night and the barman even gave us free shots.
Back at the hotel the traditional drunken pile on happened and Tim squirrel jumped Tommo which nearly destroyed his hospital bed.
No comments:
Post a Comment