Last weekend was the second Bank Holiday weekend for May, great for holidays but not great for a contractor. Anyway, on Saturday we went to Nottingham for lunch. Nottingham is about an hour up the motorway and is a little smaller than Christchurch with about 275,000 people.
It has a canal running through the middle of it and the main center is quite nice. It's just another town really and the main reason we went was to drop some people off so they could pick up their car from a garage. Wouldn't hurry back to be honest.
Nottingham has one redeeming factor - it has an IKEA. Think Warehouse but only for furniture and very good quality stuff. Each IKEA store has all the products built so you can see them. The novel thing is that instead of just having them in an open plan warehouse, they are setup as you would use them. For example they have several different kitchens with different style drawers and counters and tables etc. So you could buy the whole kitchen or just a dish rack.
It is very nice quality and surprisingly cheap. We bought a table and chair set that would probably cost $3-400 in NZ, but was 39.99 I think. The only caveat is you have to build it yourself, but if you're handy with a screw driver then Robert's your mothers brother.
On the way home we passed a sports field, where you would not believe it, there was a game of Aussie Rules in progress. Unbelievable!
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