My usual weekend is Friday - Saturday, rather than Saturday - Sunday, but on this occasion we'd ended up with a conventional weekend. So
I was also so tired that when
Saturday we had a fairly relaxing morning, and then LC came to lunch. It was really lovely to see her again (she's been on placements in England for the past couple of months), and to catch up and generally enjoy her company. And also to introduce her to
Then Sunday
We happened to arrive in the town just as a parade of 'civic dignitaries' was processing from the town hall to the church, so that was quite fun. I was rather taken with the mixture of military people, academics in gowns, mayoral types in other kinds of gowns, people in kilts and people in business suits. The problem with our itinerary was that most of the stuff we wanted to see was only open in the afternoon, so we had rather more time than we needed in the morning to wander round the city and get a general impression, and rather less time than we needed in the afternoon to visit three museums. Still, it was fun, and the wandering around bit was enhanced by watching
Well, that was a pretty educational weekend, in the most fun possible sense of educational!