All right, Devon is not very tropical at the moment, but it is still the place where I am, and Iapos;m very pleased about it.
Letapos;s see... Due to my extreme lack of steady Internet access, I didnapos;t even write about the rest of my stay in London. Well, we went to the British Museum and Tate Britain. Both are extremely awesome. I loved the Egyptian and Mesopotamian collections of the British Museum especially. And at Tate Britain I saw Waterhouseapos;s Lady of Shalott, which I adore to death and is lovely in person, as well as many other stunning things. The stunningest was a huge Burne-Jones work they had on loan from the art museum in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It was splendid, and made me very happy because that museum was closed when I was in Puerto Rico. Sadly Millaisapos;s Ophelia is on loan, but I think itapos;s somewhere in England, Manchester possibly, so maybe I can go see it later.
To explain, these are all artists that I was totally obsessed with in high school, so itapos;s really cool to see them in person. Although the lighting and positioning in the Tate sucks; many paintings are too high or too low or simply have glare if youapos;re too close to them. Still, yay Pre-Raphaelites And also Gainsborough and people.
Now, back to the part where Iapos;m in Devon. I am living in an adorable tiny townhouse that bills itself as a fishermanapos;s cottage, in a village called Starcross right outside of Exeter. If this sounds improbable, let me tell you, getting it was a somewhat lengthy process. Our landlord wanted people who could stay a year, and so it was only after a few other people looking for a long lease turned it down that he gave us a monthly contract to live here, with the stipulation that if someone wanted to lease it for a year, weapos;d get a monthapos;s notice to move. Now thereapos;s someone looking at the place, but actually our landlord lives next door and is about to move out, so we might just end up moving a cottage over, which is fine by me.
Really the whole thing seems fated. First of all, I am living somewhere called Starcross. It is this tiny, almost purely residential community looking out onto the river Exe, full of cute houses. There are three pubs, a small grocery store, a chemist, a petrol station, and a charity shop that we spend a lot of time in, buying cheap household items and using their free Internet (Internet is sadly something we will probably not be getting here anytime soon, since itapos;s pretty expensive.) Itapos;s only an eight minute ride into Exeter, so itapos;s not actually in the middle of nowhere, just feels like it.
Also, it is in England It is very English and sprawling. There are cows and sheep and blackberries everywhere. When we take walks, we munch our way from village to village. If you walk long enough you get to Powderham Castle, which has deer and pheasants all around it. Everything is very pastoral and resembles a John Constable painting.
Devon is also a nice location; itapos;s relatively near to Cornwall, Bath, and Wales, which are all places I very much want to visit. There are lots of touristy seaside towns south of here, as well as a couple very big national forests. Sadly we are not slated to get much snow here, but Iapos;m sure it will still be better than Virginia.
Now we just need to, you know, actually find jobs. The economy is pretty appalling right now, so itapos;s been difficult to find temporary work, but if we wait a couple weeks weapos;ll at least be able to find Christmas retail work. Graham has an interview today, though, and generally we are all very sanguine about our life of poverty. At least it is English poverty :D
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