just got back from an awesome weekend getaway, to this little teeny tiny town-lette, called Abergavenny, which i take to mean "Upon the River Gavenny" (seeing as aberdeen and abercrombie are likely titled). the whole weekend was consumed by basically either a) relaxing (which involved consuming food and booze) or b) performing journeys to procure food and booze, thus relegating us back to stage "A".

basically, this place was amazing. the closest neighboring building was about a mile away, this place used to be an old mill, it had at least 7 beds, at least 5 bedrooms, easily slept 15 people (6 couples, & 3 castaways), massive chillout side of the house which had a separate tv room / lounge and a separate pong tourney room (although the stinking english call it "table tennis") a regulation sized pool table (think pool table on steroids) and a kickin fireplace (replete with "pile-o-logs" out back, to be split with giant man-sized axe) and big soft comfy couches. the dinner table easily sat us all, their were lots of balloons, a working piano and organ, and this awesome glass room that poked out the side of the building (i assume where the axel for the grind stone came in) that had two chairs and all these windows that opened out on the river (you can see it on the left side of the building, above water). all you could see was river, forest, and the footbridge a bit down the river (from whence this photo was taken), that gave access to the only pub in town. (once across the river, it was a good mile hike into "town" if you could call it that. didnt even have a stop sign, but there was a place were you could either go left or straight, so i suppose that constitutes an "intersection.")

heres the photo set on flikr which is currently just the shots from my camera, but soonly will be populated by as many people as are willing to upload fhotos of the weekend (creating an account on flikr and managing photos is so complicated, its discouraging).