moonvoice | [England 2013] Chichester.

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We weren't in Chichester long.
We were mostly there to visit Mum's half-sister and her kids,
so I got to meet an Aunt and some cousins for the first time.
It was busy with post Christmas sales,
since we were there on the 27th and 28th.

Outside Chichester Cathedral.

I just liked the buildings. Very different to what we have back home.

Outside of the Nag's Head carvery. Carveries are everywhere in England, like, everywhere. It was kind of insane.

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tsukikokoro

Your photos have been of a really impressive quality. There have been some very well-framed shots, and the colors are (as always with your work) startlingly vibrant. The stories in some of these photos are more apparent and alive than in some professional work I've browsed. :D

I'm super in love with that first photo. What's a carvery? (exactly what it sounds like? or is it building related?)

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moonvoice

A carvery is like a buffet roast dinner, essentially. You get the choice of three cuts of meat (pork or beef, gammon - ham, and turkey or chicken) and then you can get potatoes and roast vegetables and gravy and you can pretty much have as many vegetables as you like. Oh and yorkshire puddings.

The first one I went to I didn't love (which is where the above photo was taken), but I went to one in Scunthorpe that was AMAZE.

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tsukikokoro

Sounds like Trent's restaurant heaven, although I'm pretty sure his Dad's roasts will always be his favourite. I love the sounds of all those veggies. :3 As long as they're not cooked to death.

A few months ago, my friend made a green bean casserole American style, the way she always has at Thanksgiving (or as close as she could with Aussie ingredients). And in that dish, I tasted everything that ever kept me from liking green beans. XP

How was the food in England in general?

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silverjackal

Super photos, thank you for sharing them. England has a distinct flavour of its' own, but it's still within the vein of Old World/European to me, and therefore comfortingly familiar and home-y. How did you like being in a place where there are so many years of material culture crowding in and over top of each other, as opposed to your home? Not that Australia doesn't have a unique deep and rich cultural history carried with it's Aboriginal peoples, but the centuries aren't jumbled higglety-piggelty and capped off with a chip shop the way they are in the U.K. ;D The absence of those layers of cultural mish-mash is something I miss a bit here. Again, the First Nations people have a deep and rich cultural history, but there is very little material culture, and it is even more obscured than in Australia. You have to know where to go and where to look, otherwise you will not see it. At home people go to renovate the bathroom and suddenly discover they're sitting on centuries old remains of something or other.

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moonvoice

How did you like being in a place where there are so many years of material culture crowding in and over top of each other, as opposed to your home?

Oh, I loved it. In that sense, Australia feels very empty, or like it's lacking layers of something. I mean yes we have the Indigenous Australians, but as you say, there's just hardly any material legacy left behind in comparison to Indigenous folks that made permanent establishments. But yeah, no, it was one of my favourite things, how many layers of history, and how much history, it was just - there was so much they took it for granted (or many did), and that was incredible. So many things that would be major tourism destinations here, simply for their historical value, were nothing more than a plaque - if that - sometimes, in England!