At long last, my pilgrimage to the birthplace of steampunk and the Industrial Revolution has begun! I arrived in Winchester yesterday afternoon bedraggled, jet-lagged, and just about falling over in exhaustion.
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| Doesn't it look like an airship should to come floating out the top? |
My journey began with a
joyous escape sorrowful goodbye as I graduated high school. Nothing much out of the ordinary about that event, although the venue, I think is somewhat worthy of mention.
Miller Park is a massive building in a neo-industrial style with such fancy details as a retractable roof. Sounds like a perfect airship hangar, no? Sorry, but it's actually just a pretty normal-looking stadium that houses a pretty mediocre baseball team, so it only gets a mention here.
After all, I had places to be, so I walked out looking a bit like this:
Anyway, onto the interesting crap: GOING TO ENGLAND!!!1!1!
(Proceeded by that excruciating butt-marathon known as eight hours on a plane.) At the least the airport in Madrid where I had a layover looked pretty cool. I can't get any pictures of that up right now, but I will, I promise. In fact, if I forget, reach through the internets, slap me, and remind me to add them.
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| L's childhood home. Sadly, fictional. |
But I do have pictures of Winchester! You see, my love of this town goes even before I knew what steampunk was, all the way back into the Anime Phase. And during that phase, my favorite anime character was the super-awesome and exceedingly cute detective L. And his hometown was Winchester. Bad news, I didn't see any of my favorite characters walking around town, but I did find plenty of other awesomeness. Without further ado, the gallery!
A few pictures of mainly the cathedral and High Street:
Keep an eye out for updates; I've got more pictures, but it's tricky to get them all sorted out on the go.
