Ok this is my proof of Lourve visit . People take photos everywhere but this is as dodgy as i was willing to get . So art buffs it is ....the Winged Victory of Samothrace . Stunning . I am mobile bloging this from paris airport . On my way back to liverpool to get on a plane to amsterdam...that was much cheaper, than doing the sensible thing and getting a train (4 hours) to Amsterdam.... . News on that later ! Au revoir
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October 14, 2006
October 12, 2006
Mobile blogging 2: Day 2 Basque food!
Ok mainly about food in todays review . I had lunch at a gourmet traveller recommended basque resturant .See the photo . In a village district close to my accommodation. It was the king of omlettes . And not burnt as it may appear in this dodgy photo (Paul Dubois are you out their in mz blog world! it was you I was thinking was going to say...Janine you are getting excited about Burnt eggs now...time to come home). My morning crepe plan did not work out but near the end of the day i found a crepe take away vendor and had a lemon and sugar one . Rather special . Ended the daylight hours at notre dame . Amazing cathedral with intricate detailing and evening mass going on inside (so I limited toursit gawking) . Dinner was eaten with Claire at a local (non touristy ) bistro in Butte Aux Cailles district. We were not always sure what we were going to get , but were pleased with the results . We think maybe the main was spatchcock ?In a divine french sauce- Bernaise-ish with chives .And even I the alcohol drink ignoramus with say the cheap red wine was good.
October 11, 2006
Mobile Blogging one: test photo of afternoon thé
Test message yesterday afternoon s tea !
October 06, 2006
The lovely Sally Dog...but still missing THE Cat
Sally Berry a 6 yo labradour is a much LOVED component of the Berry Household and it has been lovely and very entertaining to spend time with her. She (like THE cat) is completely people focused/food focused.
There is striking similarities to how she (Sally) poses herself around the house like THE Cat. I am hoping THE Cat is behaving himself back at home (last time away his scab count was 8!) . He has about 3 different people all looking after/checking up on him. But it is Spring and an active time of scrapping for a LARGE MALE Cat with an impressive territory claim. On my visit (with THE Cat) to the vet 1 week before my departure ,the vet discreetly describes Cat fights/scrapping as....Cat to Cat Agression! 
Spoilt rotten at Berry House
While in Lancashire I am visiting with Claire Berry and her parents- Claire is well known on the blog - she was a duck club guest member at the inagural meeting and Langsford SheepCrush hat devotee.
I have a lovely double room to stay in- and have been having lovely food and some of my best ever Earl Grey tea!
My room has some quirky Australian welcoming touches.
On my first night there was a traditional English roast Sunday night family dinner where I got to re-meet with Claires grandfather (G-dad) and have ? the worlds best yorshire pudding? as cooked by Claire's Mum Marie. The person missing from the photo is Claire's dad Raymond
London visit report part 2
Read the previous post for most news on my London day.
After getting off the train from Manchester I wandered the streets for around an hour trying to get myself to regent street (I only had a underground line map on me). One of the highlights was buying a large punnet of fresh raspberries for £1. After not quite finding what I was looking for I did my first tube use to get me to Piccadily Circus. After my first trip I was already helping other visitors with limited english on where the stations were (and feeling chuffed with myself the CLEVER HELPER)...before I discovered something very important...you need to follow the WAY OUT signs to get out of the underground. I assumed stairs going up went to surface, I forgot there is about 10 different lines and I just ended up on different platforms!
So I got myself to Piccadily Circus (picture left) and wandered up Regent Street to find Liberty store. I wandered a bit too far but came across the All Souls Church which I remembered reading about in several novels. Thats what I loved about the day- so much of it had appeared somewhere in a book I had read that it felt familar- but not.
By this time I was desperate to find a public toilet and this was one of my lessons. I had not realised that Perth and Australia in general has really accessible public toilets in their cities. I had assumed department stores were a reasonable tactic. They were not. Only very few (ie 5 cubicles in a 4 story dept store) and really hidden...and not all train stations had them. And when they did they were 20p (so 60c to me) to get in. I did not care about the money...throughout the day I would have paid more to find a toilet!
Lunch was at one of the 2 eating places in Liberty. I choose the very elegant Art Bar and Cafe. Though in retrospect I probably should have gone for the Tea Room (Duh!). I just wasn't quite prepared for the elegance of what was called a cafe in a department store and the matching prices! I actually felt quite intimidated by the service staff and the way they talked and the level of dress and conversation around me (many refined English and European accents - NO twangy, ocker Aussie accents!). Which isn't what I normally feel when eating out by myself. So that was interesting in itself and I have pondered a little of what was behind my reaction.
The lunch meal was lovely. A mushroom cream and lemon Thyme soup, lovely bread selection with top qualtiy Olive Oil and Balsamic VInegar. VERY GOOD pot of Earl Grey with lovely china and then a lovely dessert of a raspberry merringue (raspberries baked in it !) with clotted cream and a strawberry sauce. Even I could not dare to take full on photos , but used my mobile discreetly. For a $45 light lunch I was having SOME evidence!
By then it was around 2.30pm so after some Liberty browsing I spent most of the rest of the afternoon in Islington and on the edges of Camden. I did some vintage shopping and bought myself a set of French tea cups (what a suprise!)...there was an unfortunate incident late in the afternoon when I was VERY TIRED in the desparate attempt to find a flipping toilet somewhere- that at least SOME of those tea cups were dropped and smashed. I have not yet surveyed the full damage- bit too sad to face it yet!
Islington was very pretty and was interesting to see where people lived and went to school etc.
After Islington and eventually finding the Loop yarn store, I went back on the tube (beginning of peak hour) to the London Bridge station to explore the edge of the Thames. The next couple of hours was mainly spent trying, despite some tube delays, to get back to London Euston station and then the 4 hour train trip home to Leyland!
No wonder I am still a little tired. But my mind is chock full of memories. Next week in my 4 full days in Paris I am determined to have a somewhat more moderate approach to sight seeing. Although, we are actually STAYING IN Paris...so that is a big difference!
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