Saturday 22 June 2013. Gloucester

Last night the forecast was for worsening weather with rain and wind and that’s exactly what we had when we awoke. Fortunately there wasn’t much rain where we were so we decided to rest for a bit before walking through the quays to town. It was a very windy walk.

We didn’t want to overdo it today as yesterday at the animal park we walked miles.

The first thing to do was to get the car out of the multi-story car park by 9am and into the shopping centre car park opposite which is becoming a bit of a pain.

Although the Travelodge Hotel we are in has been completely refurbished with a brand new 22.5” LG LCD TV in each room and is very nice, the rooms are rather cramped and they have disabled many of the buttons on the TV remote preventing many of the functions from working. That is also a bit of a pain when we are unable to even bring up the TV guide.

This is the first time we have stayed at a Travelodge hotel. We won’t stay at this one again!

Mick took a few pictures of the views of the front of the hotel and out the window. Not as good as the view of the geese and ponds in Nottingham which Lyn preferred but still acceptable.

                      The Gloucester Travelodge Motel. That's our car rear end on the left.

The Gloucester Keys shops are referred to as a Designer Product Centre (  Direct Factory Outlet in Canberra).

                                                                    

 This Galaxy Tab 2 was in a O2 Mobile Phone shop $384. (They cost about $270 in Australia)

 Jaguar bonnet ornament £110 ($176) at an antiques dealer.

Ronson Varaflame cigarette lighter at the same antiques dealer. Mick bought one of these from a trader during a shore stop near Cairo on the migrant ship on which he traveled to Australia in 1964.