Breakfast with hosts. Met at the Reading Town hall at 10:00am for the reading the tour of Reading area. Our guides for the day were my hosy Ian, Jason and Linda.
A short visit to the St Laurence Church where we had an opportunity to see Lizzie Webb and her crew in action. Lizzie was also a guest speaker at the district conference last weekend. She works with disangaged youngeters and is doing an amazing job. I enjoyed the Michael Bubble track they danced to, I must admit I miss music, though I brought my ipod with me.
Leaving the St Laurence church yard we passed throuth a stone arch dated 1791, then to the Forbury Gardens. At the center of the garden is an iron lion believed to be the largest standing lion in the world.
The Abbey Ruins, we couldnt goo through them because of safety issues.
Went to the blade, 13th floor, it offers an amazing view of Reading and its surroundings.
Off to the Civic center where we met the Reading Mayor and his wife in the Parlour,
Had a light but great lunch at Jason & Emmas home.
Madejski stadium tour at 2:00pm. We went through different sections of the stadium, very impressive, we even had a change to go to the trophy room (I wont comment about the collection) and also the directors suite. We were given a 10% discount vouture but none of us used it, we are minding our 20Kg baggage allowance with SAA.
Had tea at LSQ2 at greenpark the meeting place of the club.
A quick tour of the wind turbin at greenpark, which apparantly supplies wind energy to the greenpark office park and a remarkable number of homes.
The Nags head pub for beer tasting, I fancied a stout.
Finally the sweeney todd for supper, which is a pie restuarant and happens to be located near a barber shop.
We finally called it a day
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