Ever since I got addicted to Doctor Who (back in December 2013), I’ve wanted to visit the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff. The series has gotten the fangirl in me to go from 0 to 60 in three short weeks.
A few months ago, I decided to just do it. To go to the UK and have a geeky time in Cardiff. I even managed to grab two of my coworkers to join me. We decided to normalize our trip by going to other areas of the United Kingdom. After spending almost two months of going back and forth on our travel dates, flights, hotels, and travel dates, we were set.
One thing we learned while planning our trip was that traveling around Easter is a bad idea. The entire country was on break, so the hotels were a bit pricier than we would have liked.
While in the UK, I got to meet up with my FFXI Allakhazam friend, Pachichachi, and one of my former coworkers over there. It was pretty great.
Unfortunately for me, I caught a cold. Even worse, I was unprepared for the temperature, especially in Scotland. I took quite a bit of Beechams cold medicine, and discovered that acetaminophen is called paracetamol over there.
Side note: Now I know what the flight attendant said on the Singapore flight to Japan back in 2012. Paracetamol. Turns out the US/Canada and Japan are the only countries that use the word acetaminophen . Well, in Japanese it’s asetoaminofen or アセトアミノフェン.
Some of the non-Doctor Who locations we visited were Stonehenge, the Loch Ness and Urquhart Castle, Scottish Highlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, and Liverpool. We also caught Three Sisters, and I got Paul McGann to say happy birthday to Penpen. Saw Once starring Arthur Darvill as Guy.
I really want to go back again soon. There just wasn’t enough time to see everything. Especially museums and the British Library.