Quiz night is exactly what it sounds like: Trivia night. You pay £1 for each participant on your team and scratch out your answers on a sheet and compete for prizes. On this particular night, first place won £30, second won £16, and third place won a bag of chips.
I met up with Emily's friends at The Horse and Groom pub in Merrow. Sadly, John and Mike are her only high school friends still alive in Guildford.
Pieces of chicken awaiting their fate. Little did they knew they would be skewered after their soak and set on a sizzling hot grill over a flame.
Master carpenter or chef? Simon stands in the kitchen that he and Annabel made.
Another outdoor picnic, this time in S&A's backyard. We met Dave, an American-Irish whom S&A met in Laos eight years ago. S&A were on a year-long trip through China, India, and SE Asia at the time while Dave was on a two-year trip around the world. Amazingly, Dave has been living and working abroad since that trip.
We spent the weekend with Simon and Annabel, whom we first met last fall in Lhasa, Tibet during our overland trip to Mt. Evererst and Kathmandu. We ended up spending a few days in Kathamandu together before heading off to hike around Annapurna, where we coincidentally met up again heading in the opposite directions, and spent another week together in Kathamandu and Chitwan National Park. We didn't see each other again until February when we were both passing through Bangkok; they had just returned from Cambodia were headed to Myanmar and we had just returned from Taiwan and were headed to Sukhothai.
We had always said that we should meet up again when I reached England, so that's what we did.
Actually built by William the Conquerer (well, probably not by himself, but ordered to be constructed by him) shortly after the invasion of England in 1066.
Guildford's high street is nice and cobblestoned. Surprisingly, Guildford is more expensive than London.
Interestingly, Guildford has a cathedral which was used in the movie "The Omen". And in the book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", Ford Prefect claims to be from Guildford.
Shere is a small village near Guildford. They filmed a movie here in February called "Holiday".
This is an old stately home (built in 1730) that now belongs to the National Trust. It was occupied by the family Onslow which included three Speakers of the House of Commons and a Governor General of New Zealand.
Emily's parents took me out for a traditional pub dinner in Clandon, not far from Guildford. The term "pub" refers to "public house" which referred to social places that center around the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages.
