Hotwells looks over.. 
The mighty dock gate holds back the Avon.
Mussels & Head chef Matt Woods (right)
Get the scraper out..
..and then there's the smaller, finner things in life. I had been telling every one that there would be load of barnacles and limpets that had stuck on with time and that we would have to get our bottom scrapped but there were none. Instead there were loads of 'fresh' water mussels, a little smaller than your average mussels but mussels none the less. Like all mussels when they arrive in the kitchen they're covered in gunk which is pain stakingly cleaned off before they're plopped in your moules mariniere, nice. For a laugh I asked the chef his thoughts on a nice mussel broth.. I think I insulted his talent as he told me to piss off! Should add at this point that our mussels that do reach the tables are brought in fresh, daily from St Mawes in Cornwall, just in case your wondering.
But even though the boat seemed big, the dry dock that she is in accommodates her with ease.
Seeing the boat out of water really brings home the shear size of her... she's huge. 105 foot from bow to stern but when you're standing with her hull at waste height she seems double that. Also being this close and out of water reminds me of that life size model blue whale at the history museum which is also out of water, massive and strangely wrong.
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Damn ! The boat looks huge in those pictures !
:)
Mikael
You can say that again !! And you are not far from the SS Great Britain there - perhaps you could add it to the itinerary for the coach tours...
Pleased to see that you are in the same dry dock that preserved the 'Banksy' graffito on the 'Thekla' so carefully by painting around it..
So the old girl will get well looked after. And she is looking almost as well for her age as Dame Vera Lynn !!!
damn! Jake, you look small in that photo! Hope the bottom-scraping is going OK - any new photos?
is that you in that photo - or is it Al? (or someone else?). The old eyesight is not what it was.
I tell you, the swans are missing you hugely up near Bristol Bridge. But have no fear, I have been feeding them with bread.
They did complain - "Brace's - this isn't up to our usual standard of fare, don't you know !"
But one quack-quack, who I have christened 'Dippy Duck' was clearly going through a 'teenage' phase as she was allowing her boisterous brother duck to eat all the food.
So I had to make a bit of an extra effort to ensure that she got her protein, before it got nicked by the swans. After all, you don't want to be getting back to your old haunt and find an anorexic duck, now do you ?!
We are very cross to have missed her trip down to the dry dock !
Don't even THINK about making the return trip without advance warning so that we can be out to enjoy the view and cheer you on your way !!
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