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Eastern Europe Trip
A year of adventure and misfortune - the story of our Eastern Europe trip, the accident and subsequent recovery, and our lives up until September 2008... For the latest blog, click on Blogs in the header...Tuesday, 1 April 2008
The Vikings are coming!
Well, actually, they've already been.
Tracy and I fancied a day out last Saturday and so headed off to the Jorvik Viking museum in the centre of York. It certainly made a change from sitting at home wondering what to do with ourselves!
The museum is well worth a visit, and whilst it is a bit odd - first starting with a "time travel ride" and then a ride in a fairground car round a re-created Viking village - it is extremely well done. The museum exhibits after the ride explain the history of the site, which was discovered in 1976 when they were about to knock down a terraced block of houses to build a new shopping centre. The discovery led to 5 years of archelogical digging, yielding some 4,000 artefacts, and a large number of viking skeletons. Using techniques familiar to anyone who's watched CSI on TV, they re-created the faces of the villagers from the skulls they had found. And the end result is really eerie and very life-like - we were tempted to ask the crowd around the fisherman if we could buy a fish for our tea...
After the excitement of the museum, we had a quiet Saturday night, and on Sunday we enjoyed the MotoGP races. Great to see a Brit (Bradley Smith) on the podium again in the 125cc GP, and Rossi back towards the front in the main event - and even better to see James Toseland battling hard and eventually finishing 6th... hopefully we'll see him on the podium pretty soon!
As for Tracy, she's getting a bit stir-crazy being in the house all day, but has been looking for a new study course to do to keep her occupied (as well as buying lots of jigsaws, as they help with her dexterity). I've been changing the dressing on her arm a couple of times this week, and it does look like it is starting to heal some more. She went to the doctors this morning, and he has asked for it to be swabbed again as it still shows some signs of infection, despite the last result coming back clear. Let's hope this one comes back clear as well...
The only other thing worthy of note this last week is that I've treated myself to something... but what, you'll have to wait a couple of weeks to find out. I'm off to Las Vegas with work on Saturday, so won't be updating the blog for a couple of weeks, just to keep the suspense going!
Tracy and I fancied a day out last Saturday and so headed off to the Jorvik Viking museum in the centre of York. It certainly made a change from sitting at home wondering what to do with ourselves!
The museum is well worth a visit, and whilst it is a bit odd - first starting with a "time travel ride" and then a ride in a fairground car round a re-created Viking village - it is extremely well done. The museum exhibits after the ride explain the history of the site, which was discovered in 1976 when they were about to knock down a terraced block of houses to build a new shopping centre. The discovery led to 5 years of archelogical digging, yielding some 4,000 artefacts, and a large number of viking skeletons. Using techniques familiar to anyone who's watched CSI on TV, they re-created the faces of the villagers from the skulls they had found. And the end result is really eerie and very life-like - we were tempted to ask the crowd around the fisherman if we could buy a fish for our tea...
After the excitement of the museum, we had a quiet Saturday night, and on Sunday we enjoyed the MotoGP races. Great to see a Brit (Bradley Smith) on the podium again in the 125cc GP, and Rossi back towards the front in the main event - and even better to see James Toseland battling hard and eventually finishing 6th... hopefully we'll see him on the podium pretty soon!
As for Tracy, she's getting a bit stir-crazy being in the house all day, but has been looking for a new study course to do to keep her occupied (as well as buying lots of jigsaws, as they help with her dexterity). I've been changing the dressing on her arm a couple of times this week, and it does look like it is starting to heal some more. She went to the doctors this morning, and he has asked for it to be swabbed again as it still shows some signs of infection, despite the last result coming back clear. Let's hope this one comes back clear as well...
The only other thing worthy of note this last week is that I've treated myself to something... but what, you'll have to wait a couple of weeks to find out. I'm off to Las Vegas with work on Saturday, so won't be updating the blog for a couple of weeks, just to keep the suspense going!
posted by DoctorZippy # 20:12 
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