Showing posts with label tropical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tropical. Show all posts

22 Aug 2013

The Eden Project at last 20 August 2013

An early start today on our coach trip, after our breakfast and buying some sandwiches and drinks for later consumption, the trip was through pleasant countryside and took about 30 minutes, when we arrived,  at the Eden Project, the staff were great at sorting out Andy,  they came with a vehicle to take us to the visitor centre, once there he was provided with an electric wheelchair, I was surprised how noisy and busy it all was at the Visitor Centre, so off we set on our trip to the tropical area first. There were all sorts of interesting plants and flowers to look at and take photos of as well as some rather interesting pieces of art.


When we got to the dome it was quiet busy already,  but we managed to negotiate round the dome, stating the obvious it got warmer and warmer as time went on, plus the humidity was quite high there, we saw all sorts of plants and flowers and the occasional butterfly we took, well I took plenty of photos,

after this we had a break for a drink and something to eat, before moving on to the Mediterranean area of the dome, many of the plants and flowers I recognized from my trips abroad to Spain Greece and other countries, again there were all sorts of works of art in metal,
bark etc plus there were areas for storytelling and other activities, just for a change we took plenty more photos, then went for an ice cream, the queue was long so we abandoned this and set off back to the visitor centre, somehow as usual we managed to lose Brian,  plus we also got lost ourselves along the way, there seemed to be lots of signs to various attractions but a distinct lack telling us the way to the visitor centre or way out, the good thing was we therefore saw even more than we would of
, Andy tried texting Brian,  seems he was waiting for us, but when got to the visitor centre at last no sign of him, we returned the wheelchair then had a ride back to the coach, low and behold there was Brian, who said he had followed us, he could tell it was me by my hat, I explained that I had not been wearing it, he had walked back quicker than we could on transport, what an athlete!
On the way to to the project it had taken 25 minutes therefore why did we travel for more than this to the next stop which was a shopping centre, for a change I visited the toilets,  they were terrible, we then carried on to the hotel went for rest, then meal followed by more time taking photos at dusk