Came to Exeter to meet my friend Joe.
Took me about 4 and a half hours from Birmingham by bus.
It went quick though, as I was sleeping all the way.
As I arrived, Joe showed me around the city of Exeter.
It was so nice to escape from the busyness of Birmingham and especially, from its horrid accent.
The first place we visited was the Exeter Cathedral which was right in the centre of the City.
Inside, it had an impressive ceiling and a huge pipe organ in the middle.
Joe's house was about ten minutes away by bus.
There was nobody in the house when I arrived, but Birty the cat and lots of ducks greeted me kindly.
After resting for a while having a cinnamon tea, we decided to visit Joe's mother's workshop.
Margaret is an artist; she does water paintings and makes loads of clay objects.
Her workshop was by the beautiful canal, 15 minutes walk from the house.
Luke, Joe's brother, was already there, making some fish-like object with clay.
They let me try some as well. Bit nervous was I, as I haven't even touched a clay since high-school.
I tried my best to create a Japanese Tengu, but ended up as a grotesque Pinocchio.
Luke joined us and we decided to go to the sea, though it was already past 4.
I was so excited, because I haven't seen the sea since I came to Britain.
We took the train from Exeter St. David's station and after about 20 minutes,
the English Channel appeared thorough the train window !
Amazed I was!
It only took us little over 20 minutes to arrive at Dawlish, a beautiful town by the sea.
On arriving, Joe and Luke took me to an ice-cream shop which they said is very good
We arrived just before the store close down and I bought an ice-cream as two insisted.
It had some 'clotted cream' as a topping and surely, was very very scrumptious.
After that, went to the beach.
Being the middle of July, it must be warm enough in Japan to swim, but this one looked rather cold.
But clouds started to move away showing some blue sky, I was moved by the beautiful scenery.
Joe and Luke pointed at a big rock far in the distance and told me that it has some caves in it.
So we went,
walking forever towards this massive rock.
We must have walked for nearly 30 minutes, when the rock started to appear in its real size.
Unexpectedly, the caves were huge inside, deep enough to hide away any light from the outside.
But it was grotesque with the jelly stuff scattered around on the ground, so we retreated !
Took a photo with Luke outside the rock for conquering the caves.
And afterwards, climbed up this big rock and Luke took two photos of me and Joe, for conquering the rock itself!
When we came back, it was nearly 8'oclock, but I was warmly welcomed by the family.
Joe prepared me some meal - squishy rice with chilly.
It was such an exciting day; can't stop grinning as I reminisce about this day.
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