Trip Highlights

[cjsmith]

Haven't got around to slurping the trip-journal off Rob's laptop yet, so here are some snippets and tidbits from memory.

It is not standard practice for hotels or B&Bs to provide soap and shampoo. Heh. Oops.

There are friendly cats everywhere: Barmstedt, the Scottish Highlands, a run-down Glasgow suburb, everywhere.

Driving on the left side of the road isn't so bad. Driving a car obviously engineered for the driver to sit in the left seat, and poorly reworked to have the driver on the right side, is bad.

I had pizza exactly once on this trip, and it had haggis on it. For the record, haggis is delicious.

The UK has blackcurrant Starburst candies. In general I like our flavors better - ours are more tart - but I'd gladly get rid of our horrid cherry to get their yummy blackcurrant.

The best shortbread in the entire universe is hand-made by the people at the Artists' Gallery, Easdale, island of Seil, by Oban. Best in the uuuuuuniverse. Walker's is a pale imitation.

I am apparently descended from the MacDonald clan. I did not find my tartan. MacDonald has splintered into too many septs each with their OWN PLAID. Grr.

Rob and I calculated that there are two point five trillion midges in the Highlands.

Comments

haggis pizza!

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

it sounds like fun. well, except for the midges. welcome back!

Re: haggis pizza!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was great, even though the midges were annoying. Useful thing to know: enough rain keeps the midges from flying. I could LIKE rain. :-)

[cassidyrose.livejournal.com]

Sounds fun!

There is still a line of my family in a castle in Scotland. My grandfather's sister visited it several years back when she was visiting Scotland.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh how cool! Whereabouts?

I'm sure I'm distantly related to some people in castles somewhere in Scotland, but it's probably pretty distant.

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

he he he -- haggis pizza. too cool, girl.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah. I like haggis perfectly fine without pizza under it. I just wish they'd stop serving it with mashed turnips. I am not fond of turnips.

[tytso.livejournal.com]

I've never understood people who thought Haggis tastes gross. IMHO it's very yummy.... I just don't stop to think about how it's made....

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

I'll eat your turnips for you! Mmmmm, mashed turnips ...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Lisa, may I say this with all the fondness in my heart: you are weeeeeiiiird.

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Hey, you're the one eating haggis pizza. My little thing for root vegetables looks positively tame compared to that. ;)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Cherry-flavoured anything is nasty, IMO. Horrible, synthetic taste.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Isn't it heinous? I don't understand why cherry seems to be the most popular flavor for many multi-flavored things around here. Popsicles, Life Savers, Starbursts... I just can't get away from the cherry. Horrid stuff.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

My mother loved cherries, hated cherry flavor.

I like both.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

You can have all my cherry Starbursts. :-)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I'm not a big Starbursts fan, actually. :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Darn! Oh well.

You're back!

[tytso.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool, you're back! I wasn't sure when you would be returning from the UK.

I'm in town this week for LinuxWorld, and will be flying out on Sunday. Are you doing anything on Saturday (besides recovering from jet lag? :-)

Re: You're back!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Writing a lot of choreography, probably, but I'm always up for something yummy in the Indian or Thai kind of range. :-)