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Friday 24 April 2009

Latest outing

Well, the most recent outing was to Rugby in Northants., the home of Rugby School, where the rules of the ancient Greek game were amended and codified by William Webb Ellis.

The town centre consisted of a shopping centre, full of the usual suspects, with a lovely big Dunelm, but quite a few empty units. As it was a Saturday, the market stalls were out in the main street, although people were mostly heading for the shopping cente as there was a bitterly cold wind blowing.

There were a number of what I would call posh shops, as well as some individual local stores, but it did seem as though Woolworths had been the hub of the main street and its demise left the other shops rather quiet. Found a lovely Thai restaurant, The Thai Orchid, for lunch - lovely decor, brilliant service (as you'd expect) and scrumptious food, all for a reasonable sum!

The best bit though, had to be the library, museum and art gallery, all in a new, state-of-the-art building that reminded me of Tate St Ives, although the outlook over the building site that was to be the new Asda was a little less appealing!

Next stop? Who knows!