A text update for a change
A few notes in addition to the photo posts of late, in no particular order:
Last weekend, my friend Beth came up from London where she's doing a summer program of study between her first and second years of law school. We hadn't seen one another since Los Angeles in 2005, and now we hang out twice in one month, in London and Edinburgh!
In addition to the places we went for which i've posted photographs (Holyrood, the Castle, etc), we also went to this amazing restaurant, Wildfire, up on Rose St., which had delicious steaks made from beef farmed a few miles north of here, and some profiteroles i could have eaten twenty of. It seemed like a pretty posh restaurant with only a few hard-to-get tables, but we lucked into a table just in time.
Another highlight of that day was the rain-induced serendipitous shoe shopping, where we ducked into a store to get out of a cloudburst and wound up buying some truly amazing shoes, Think! brand shoes made of Italian leather. I bought a red pair with yellow stitching, and Beth bought a pair of purple and black patent leather oxfords.
Saturday, my classmate Lizzie and i went to the Edinburgh Farmer's Market down at the base of the Castle. We had amazing bbq hog sandwiches (on wheat rolls spread thick with sage and onion stuffing and topped with applesauce), carved straight from the hog. The hog lying on the cart reminded me of the Aubrey/Maturin novels, how "soused hog's face" is Jack Aubrey's favorite dish.
We bought a ton of great local food, too, for meals this week. I got a wheel of Scots brie, a carton of strawberries, something called a "wee supper pie" stuffed with venison cooked in red wine, a slice of a larger meat pie stuffed with wild boar and pheasant (i am all about the wild game meats here), and i split a carton of black cherries with Lizzie.
We also bought handmade chocolate bars from local chocolatier The Chocolate House (Bramble and Cardamon for me, Strawberry and Pepper for her). Then we went to the pub round the corner and randomly discovered that we are both Tri Deltas! Small world. Now we're on a quest to take a photo for the sorority magazine, the Trident, in which there are always people's vacation photos in random places where "sisters" meet each other.
And, so far my favorite of the Scotch whiskies i've tasted is Monkey Shoulder, though i'll admit i might have been biased by the cute bartender who explained its name to me. His accent was the dreamy keep-talking-please sort such that he could have been telling me it was made by straining dog pee through a sweat sock and i'd have given it a try.
Now, off to find a copy shop.
Last weekend, my friend Beth came up from London where she's doing a summer program of study between her first and second years of law school. We hadn't seen one another since Los Angeles in 2005, and now we hang out twice in one month, in London and Edinburgh!
In addition to the places we went for which i've posted photographs (Holyrood, the Castle, etc), we also went to this amazing restaurant, Wildfire, up on Rose St., which had delicious steaks made from beef farmed a few miles north of here, and some profiteroles i could have eaten twenty of. It seemed like a pretty posh restaurant with only a few hard-to-get tables, but we lucked into a table just in time.
Another highlight of that day was the rain-induced serendipitous shoe shopping, where we ducked into a store to get out of a cloudburst and wound up buying some truly amazing shoes, Think! brand shoes made of Italian leather. I bought a red pair with yellow stitching, and Beth bought a pair of purple and black patent leather oxfords.
Saturday, my classmate Lizzie and i went to the Edinburgh Farmer's Market down at the base of the Castle. We had amazing bbq hog sandwiches (on wheat rolls spread thick with sage and onion stuffing and topped with applesauce), carved straight from the hog. The hog lying on the cart reminded me of the Aubrey/Maturin novels, how "soused hog's face" is Jack Aubrey's favorite dish.
We bought a ton of great local food, too, for meals this week. I got a wheel of Scots brie, a carton of strawberries, something called a "wee supper pie" stuffed with venison cooked in red wine, a slice of a larger meat pie stuffed with wild boar and pheasant (i am all about the wild game meats here), and i split a carton of black cherries with Lizzie.
We also bought handmade chocolate bars from local chocolatier The Chocolate House (Bramble and Cardamon for me, Strawberry and Pepper for her). Then we went to the pub round the corner and randomly discovered that we are both Tri Deltas! Small world. Now we're on a quest to take a photo for the sorority magazine, the Trident, in which there are always people's vacation photos in random places where "sisters" meet each other.
And, so far my favorite of the Scotch whiskies i've tasted is Monkey Shoulder, though i'll admit i might have been biased by the cute bartender who explained its name to me. His accent was the dreamy keep-talking-please sort such that he could have been telling me it was made by straining dog pee through a sweat sock and i'd have given it a try.
Now, off to find a copy shop.
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