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PeteMarks -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 22:12:21 )

Ok, what's "harvard beets"? Is this just another name for "beetroot"?


Pete



merry traveler -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 22:56:54 )

pickled beets, you can buy them in the grocery store in a glass jar. Surprised you haven't seen them before, Pete. They were a staple in my family's kitchen when I was growing up.



Hudson -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 22:59:38 )

What I call harvard beets are sliced and heated in a sweet sour sauce

(beets .. cornstarch .. salt .. sugar .. vinegar ...)



PeteMarks -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 23:21:30 )

I must keep a look out for them at the grocery. That is the way we ate them back home; pickled in malt vinegar. My wife likes the canned ones here but they are in water and are fairly tasteless.

Thanks guys.

Pete



Ron Hann -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (16 Feb. 2005 6:58:42 )

I confess that, when I'm travelling. I like to get a good breakfast inside of me. It usually lets me go without lunch, or not have very much, anyway, and then stoke up on a good evening meal.

Especially when breakfast is included in the tariff.

I think that that stems from when I used to be a long-distance truck-driver.



Tudor Rose -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (16 Feb. 2005 11:14:56 )

I'm the same, Ron. The tours always include a full breakfast and while I don't partake of everything on the buffet, it does help to have something in the tummy as the day begins. As for lunch, if there is a chip place, a paper of those will be enjoyed while wandering the streets of a town. Other than that, though, lunch is skipped...too busy climbing castle walls or wandering cathedrals. Who has time for food in the middle of the day while on vacation???



PeteMarks -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (16 Feb. 2005 13:21:22 )

I think you guys have highlighted the big mistake I always make on my vacations back in England.
Invariably I am staying with either of my sisters and although I get up at sunrise I just read the papers and have a couple of coffees before the rest of the family emerge. Then it is the protracted breakfast, lots of conversation and look! it is already five minutes to eleven! We settle on an approximate itinery for the day and finally hit the road. No main roads for us, just meandering along hedgerow lined country lanes and what do you know, there's a little pub I have never been in! Time for lunch; a couple of pints of real ale. some stilton cheese and crusty bread and conversation with the local characters.
Well, what do you know? It's nearly 3pm and we haven't got near a castle yet but there is an ancient church just across the meadow so let's explore that.
We read all the graveyard headstones and reflect on what life and death might have been like in 1689, ponder how few infants were memorialised although the mortality rate was extremely high back then, then we study the quirky architecture on the building and try to spot which portions were 13th c (often just a portion of one stone wall) and which were later additions. Inside we read the memorial stones and brasses embedded in the floors and walls and then in the perfect peace of midweek solitude we kneel at the alter rail or sit in some ancient boxed pew and quietly thank God for the richness of our lives.

Did I say "the big mistake I always make?" Perhaps not; we can always buy postcards or books on grand castles with their manicured lawns and carefully arranged suits of armour but these tiny ancient churches touch places in my soul that will last for eternity.

Now I do feel homesick for the things I never took the time to enjoy in the 54 years I lived there!

Pete



merry traveler -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (16 Feb. 2005 15:08:51 )

Pete,
That sounds like just the kind of vacation I would like to have. Good conversation with family and friends that I haven't seen in months, rambling along and soaking up the atmosphere. Although, I do love the go, go, go of visiting all of the sights. My trip to England in 2002 was a little bit of both. Frantic pace at the beginning and end, but in the middle when I reached Mousehole, just days spent getting to know the village and my 2nd cousin and her family. She and her husband are ramblers, so I would take the bus into Newlyn and meet them, then they would drive along the back country lanes with the high hedge rows, stop for tea and conversation some where along the way and then end up back at their home for dinner. And now I'm feeling homesick.[:(]



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