This week we have started our individual challenges to make up the 3 million steps. But due to work and other commitments we have not been able to do any more of the Rutland round. However on Saturday we walked in Leicester. Not very exciting I hear you say....
Well, we were out in Leicester in the evening and wanted a few things from the bigger shops so decided to go in for the day. But we decided to look at Leicester as we would if we were going to visit a city not known to us, as opposed to one where we grew up. So before we left home, I went onto the 'what to see in Leicester websites' to see what was suggested to tourists.
We started off going to the 'cultural district' where the Curve is, a new(ish) theatre that we have not yet visited. Lunch was in their restaurant watching street performers in the square outside. In the afternoon we walked to the museum via the traffic free, tree lined New Walk. The Leicester Chronicler website says: Leicester's New Walk was laid out in 1785, and was probably the first pedestrian walk of its kind in the country. It follows closely the line of the old Roman route from the town south towards Medbourne and possibly Colchester....... New Walk is a charming and idyllic route for thousands of people who walk in the city, connecting the railway station with the centre of the town. It is the home of a variety of wildlife including foxes and squirrels, and is lined with a rich heritage of architecture.
David and I were trying to remember the last time we had been to the New Walk Museum and Art Gallery and couldn't. I think for me it was when I was still at school - many many years ago. But what we both remembered was the huge dinosaur skeleton which is still there as part of a new and fascinating dinosaur display. But we remembered the museum as a quiet, not very user friendly place - how things have changed - it was vibrant and buzzing with lots of families as it was half term! The best for me was to see the new Attenborough Collection of Picasso Ceramics. In 2007, Lord and Lady Attenborough announced that their Picasso ceramics collection would be entrusted to the City of Leicester to commemorate the lives of their daughter, Jane Mary, and their granddaughter, Lucy Elizabeth, who perished together in the Asian Tsunami on 26th December 2004. (From the Museums website). The Attenborough brothers, Richard and David, grew up in Leicester.
Then on to a bit of retail therapy and happy hour cocktails in the Highcross area of the city before going out for the evening. Not quite the Rutland Round, no rural landscapes or bird song, but looking at Leicester as a tourist was new experience, which we will do again, and we clocked up a good few thousand steps!
Now the weekly step total and I start with an admission. I got mixed up with the numbers of 0s in our step count last week. I should have said that I have clocked up just over 700,000 steps and David has done just a little under 1,300,000 steps - I did not out in enough 0s!!!!! (I have now corrected last week's blog!). This week I have added 52,462 and David has done 100,101 - he always does about twice as many as me........
Sponsorship has dried up a bit but not altogether. Marie Curie now stands at £905 and Water Aid is at £1,100. We are very very pleased with this but we are still hoping for more
More next week
Jean (and David)
PS no photos as I forgot to take my camera
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