Völlig coventriert

I went to Coventry today to pick up Mithras from the train station and visit Lunt Roman Fort. Unfortunately the fort is closed on Tuesdays for reasons known only to the gods. So instead we popped over the road to the Midland Air Museum, where we climbed inside a Vulcan bomber and pretended we were bombing things, and saw an arsenal of other flying dealers of death. Mithras will probably upload photos at some point, but in the meantime here's an artist's impression of me and Mithras about to bomb things in a Vulcan.


We then went into central Coventry, which could be fairly summed up as a confused mess. I hope I never again have to drive into the hellish ring of shit that passes for the Coventry traffic system. On foot it's also rather a confused mess. The few medieval streets which do survive only make it sadder that the rest were destroyed.


As if sitting in a Vulcan bomber didn't get us pumped enough for one day, we went to a bookshop where Mithras bought a book called Empires and Barbarians, and I bought a book with the punchy title War.


I'm off hiking tomorrow and will be in the wilderness for a few days.