We slept well. In fact, we slept so well and so long that we missed breakfast (stops at 10 am on weekdays)! Neil went for a run. I made coffee in our room. Eventually, we went out to a nearby pub (The Queen’s Head) for lunch. My lunch was the ever-so-British bangers and mash, while Neil was tempted by the description of a vegetable-stuffed crepe. Mine was grand, but Neil’s did not have as many vegetables as expected and much, much more cheese. It was surprisingly lasagne-like.
After lunch, we went to the zoo next door to out hotel. It is a good zoo, not huge, but with animals in fairly natural settings and lots of good opportunities for people to view them. We walked around there from around 3 until closing time at 6, and we saw: giraffes,
antelopes, warthogs, maras, penguins, zebras (several different kinds), Amur leopards, sandcats, Amur tigers, more antelopes, a Somali wild ass, a red panda,
cranes, guinea fowl, wider ducks, mongooses, lots and lots of lemurs, and a snow leopard…
I went for a swim and a soak in the whirlpool to soothe my feet and MA&A biked over for dinner here in the Zavanna dining room. Computers were fully used to arrange travel and other plans for upcoming days…. Fell into bed at last, well after midnight!
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