What has Southampton got to offer?

After being in a Ripe training day all day, David and I decided to see what Southampton had to offer in the ways of a meal and some refreshing beverages (non-alcoholic) of course. Having spent the best part of 45 minutes walking around the ‘City Centre’ it seemed quite apparent that the town didn’t have much to offer in the way of nice restaurants which was a shame.

We settled on a place called Bella Italia (a chain) which served quite nice food but nothing that I would write (blog) home about! After saying hello to a few other people from the Ripe meeting who turned up in the restaurant, we headed over to the Slug and Lettuce for a couple of drinks before leaving for our hotel room.

The nice thing I found about Southampton was the Parks located just on the very edge of the shopping area, we walked through these on the way for food and the way back to the hotel and it was nice and peacefull, no idiots around and I managed to snap off a few pictures of some of the local buildings and statues - I’ll upload these when I get back and if they are good enough quality!

Anyway, long and short of this post is - don’t visit Southampton if you want something to do for a few days - it doesn’t seem to offer it.

New digital SLR - 350d

Well I picked up a second hand Canon EOS 350d last week as I want to start getting into photography more and more. I used to be quite good with my old point and click but the newer one I had bought just didn’t seem to cut the mustard.

Been messing around with it for a week near enough now just learning how to shoot in manual mode to get the best out of my pics and this is the type of thing I’ve got so far:

Hopefully gonna head out to a midget race http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midget_car_racing on sunday for one of the chaps that works for us and take some snaps…..