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

[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. ;)