Another update, mostly about food!
Apr. 29th, 2007 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glittertiggerTrains are great. Eurostar is a fine way to travel and TGVs go very fast :) Airports, on the other hand, suck (although I enjoy the actual flying part, especially on a clear day with a view of the Scottish mountains). Heathrow makes me want to scream. In the last couple of weeks I lost large chunks of my life to each of the following,
- sorry, you can't get off the plane, we can't find a qualified person to drive those steps
- no idea where your luggage is, can't you wait, oh you landed an hour ago, I'll try to find out
- the equipment which was unloading your baggage broke down (not on the same trip as the point above)
I will be sticking to the Eurostar next week. My French is now good enough that I only need to ask for a phrase to be translated every ten minutes or so. French food has been excellent, as has the white wine (we spent a week in the Loire valley). Sadly the red wine has been poor, so much so in one case that it was served mixed with cassis to hide the taste. We were eating in a chateau owned by the town council and they felt obliged to serve wines from the local vineyards, even if there weren't any good red ones.
The food in Scotland was also wonderful. We had wild salmon and some really richly flavoured soups (cullen skink is a favourite of mine). We also had haggis, served in a sort of shepherd's pie with layers of mashed turnip and potato on top. I'm not going to talk about my actual work here, because I'm tired and I'm giving my brain the weekend off :)
I had another great meal last night cooked by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
triskellian and smiorgan. The lamb had been cooked for hours and was incredibly tender. It was good to have a chance to have a proper catch-up with both of them as well. Hope to see some more people soon. I'm in Oxford next weekend and don't have any plans yet, so shout if you would like to meet up.
- sorry, you can't get off the plane, we can't find a qualified person to drive those steps
- no idea where your luggage is, can't you wait, oh you landed an hour ago, I'll try to find out
- the equipment which was unloading your baggage broke down (not on the same trip as the point above)
I will be sticking to the Eurostar next week. My French is now good enough that I only need to ask for a phrase to be translated every ten minutes or so. French food has been excellent, as has the white wine (we spent a week in the Loire valley). Sadly the red wine has been poor, so much so in one case that it was served mixed with cassis to hide the taste. We were eating in a chateau owned by the town council and they felt obliged to serve wines from the local vineyards, even if there weren't any good red ones.
The food in Scotland was also wonderful. We had wild salmon and some really richly flavoured soups (cullen skink is a favourite of mine). We also had haggis, served in a sort of shepherd's pie with layers of mashed turnip and potato on top. I'm not going to talk about my actual work here, because I'm tired and I'm giving my brain the weekend off :)
I had another great meal last night cooked by
triskellian and smiorgan. The lamb had been cooked for hours and was incredibly tender. It was good to have a chance to have a proper catch-up with both of them as well. Hope to see some more people soon. I'm in Oxford next weekend and don't have any plans yet, so shout if you would like to meet up.
