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

[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.