Bath (7-10 July 2013)

Bath

Bath’s architecture has its own identity: crescent. There are so many crescents around, The Royal crescent. It is a lovely small city: crescent, rivers, canals, mountains, heritage building. Most of the tourists come for one day trip only. It was sunny in Bath. Many men took off their shirts strolling around, sun bathing and so forth. I arrived there early than expected so I attend a Sunday service. It was Methodist Church, the congregation including the speaker are 10 only.

Neil is an amazing man. He just keeps smiles broadly. He believes that 97% of mankind are ‘good’. His garden is threatened by snails and he stops me killing the snails that I caught. After dinner, we went for a short walk to release the snails to the nature. He loves guerilla garden and plants cheery, apple and other fruit  trees at the small field near to his home. He has inspired me to have positive thinking. Once he embarked a boat which overtook passengers in Philiphines, the captain of the boat ignored his warning and kept sailing. The boat sank and he swam with his rucksack and was rescued. His comment to this incident was : what a wonderful swim!” Since there was no casualty, he just enjoyed the consequences instead of complaining. Moreover, while he was canoeing at Amazon River, his teammate stood up and the canoe was subsided. The one who caused the accident, quickly climbed up a tree nearby the river bank. He and the guide swam to get the rucksack and pull up the canoe by using a small cup to take up the water. They were exhausted and finally saved canoe and then they canoed to river bank to fetch the teammate who was resting on a branch of a tree. He admitted that he was a little bit annoyed while he trying to pour up the water with a little cup. Nevertheless, he just felt grateful after the canoe was saved. He didn’t blame his teammate since the consequence was not bad and he took this as a wonderful experience. 

I really enjoy chatting with him. I cannot understand why he does not annoyed, disappointed etc. He keeps his positive thinking in good or bad situations. He only allowed himself to be in bad mood for less than half hours.  There are a lot I want to talk about him but too lazy to write. The End.