Kieran and Helen were working today so we had a lazy day in their house, using the time and available internet to sort out some of the next leg of our trip (Washington and the drive to Memphis). Before Kieran went to work he took me to an outdoor shop to purchase a tent for our road trip; we're going to get other camping kit once we have the car, but wanted to make sure that we have a tent so we're not hunting around for one in Virginia.
In the afternoon we booked some more hotel / hostels for Fiji and a camp site near Nashville. Seth from Eppy's Slacker Shorts, whom we met last night, came over with a suitcase full of shorts for me to try. I picked out a nice pair of vintage trousers and he measured me up, so we should be collecting a great pair of bespoke shorts in the morning! They're certainly going to get a lot of use over the next 10 months.
We planned to have a picnic dinner in the evening but had to abandon due to a thunderstorm, so we headed into town to the Portsmouth Brewery pub where they run a microbrewery. There is a lot of good beer over here (I'll write another post on that later) and the beer culture is surprisingly close to that in the UK - we had a great blonde ale and a stout that were brewed right on the premises.
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