The first beings that got active in the house were the Labradors Star and Edna. We were told not to leave the bedroom door open because they would probably have jumped on the bed. But very early in the morning a neighbour was picking them up for a morning walk and that got them really excited.
Whenever people say England is famous for its rainy weather, they never travelled with us because we always bring the sunshine along. It was already shining through the window in the morning and it was time to get up for an easy breakfast outside on the garden sofa with Tracy. We had tea, granola bowls in our hands and the dogs running around us. Robert started to do our laundry and hang it out in the garden, while I kept on doing some work on the blog and cut a short film of our first part of the trip for Robert as a birthday gift for tomorrow.
For lunch we met up with our friend Jon, who came extra from London to see us. Tracy took us to the Fisherman’s Rest nearby, where the ruins of the Titchfield Abbey were one of the attractions on the opposite side of the road. It presented its gothic walls in the clear blue sky.
As so far we had not used our tent on the whole trip and Jon offered to take it to Munich on his next visit in the spring, we decided to leave it behind together with the airbeds as we were sure that we would not need them until then. Being on the Way of Saint James offers so many great opportunities to stay in pilgrims hostels that the tent always was an emergency option in case we would not being able to find a place to sleep in the middle of nowhere due to e.g. a broken bike. Luckily we never needed it and we trusted in being able to continue our trip without any such emergencies in the last upcoming three weeks.
From the afternoon until late in the night I continued cutting the film for Robert with Cap Cut. It was an app which had been recommended to me by Elia in Switzerland at the very beginning of the “Less-is-more-Tour”. It was a paid version, which could be terminated by any time, offering also music to be used. The other music, that Eric Heitz offered me to use, was covering the French part of the trip. Anyone who knows about cutting has an idea about how much work this is. So everyone got already asleep before me.
