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Short weekend in our old town of Leicester - wrapped up with a visit to Richard's family. Multicultural welcome to this East Midlands city. Tomas Cook, the pioneer of mass tourism in the XIX century, checking the time outside the station. A favorite hang out of the years spent in Leicester, the lovely gay Bossa bar, being 1995 it was the first bar to offer espresso and cocktails in town... a legend! Mel, Bossa's boss, checking the time too... Typical provincial center maybe, but above the shop fronts a wealth of architectural variety (Roman - Medieval - Tudor - Georgian - Victorian - Industrial - 70's) The famous 1000 years old market, still buzzing on a Saturday afternoon with a great cross section of Leicester's life --- "50 P. POTATOES!!!" ----- Just a plain pretty stall - but another Leicester's institution, providing all those little bits to Ladies for generations and generations... Dungeon and Dragons - that was a silly move... Down at the Orange Tree, the other bar who changed Leicester, a shabby chic blueprint that's still to be bettered. MOJHITOS @ the Orange Tree - the best so far in the UK! Home sweet home at R's parents. Poscard on the door. Family picture, all the Davies together in 1998. Grandma in the middle died last year. The ancesters, Richard's great grandma, sometime in the late XIX century A chilly day, but Bradgate Park is still Leicester's place for a Sunday walk. A bit muddy though :) Ancient trees and rocks, hunters firing away, dear old deers.