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The best seafood in the world (IMO) comes from the North Coast of Scotland and is the Langoustine. Boil them for a minute or so and serve with homemade mayonnaise or alioli.
You're making me hungry and I've already eaten lunch. The best seafood I've eaten was in Asia. Fresh Mekong fish in Cambodia and massive prawns in Thailand. Though it's hard to beat a good Barra.The Lake District and Lake Macquarie are very different things. I'm hoping to go cycling around the latter in a fortnight or so and don't have plans for jumpers/wet weather gear/sou'westers.
Sound nice. Make sure you have a few days off to go boating etc.
I wouldn't gamble on leaving the jumper and wet weather gear behind though. That area gets the occasional flood.
How'd you enjoy living on Mars for a day? All the photos made me a bit homesick...0 -
You're making me hungry and I've already eaten lunch. The best seafood I've eaten was in Asia. Fresh Mekong fish in Cambodia and massive prawns in Thailand. Yum.
The Swahili do excellent seafood. The beaches in that part of the world are incredible too.
I remember being on the eastern coast of Zanzibar. Myself and my (female) travelling companion had an entire half-mile white coral sand beach (lined with palm trees) virtually to ourselves.Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J. K. Galbraith0 -
Rats, we were having a mushrom risotto or a simple suppr, now I want shell fish. I seem to have developed a sensitivity to oysters, which is wretched, I love them, but I'm aware its a bit of a gamble now....
maybe I'll see what looks good for a shellfish starter this evening....(Pastures would be whooping my butt and such fruivolous and un MSE menu additions.)0 -
I'm loving this weak pound scenario. Most of my cash savings are in New Zealand. In £ terms they have grown by 18% in four months :-)0
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Sound nice. Make sure you have a few days off to go boating etc.
I wouldn't gamble on leaving the jumper and wet weather gear behind though. That area gets the occasional flood.
It'll be up there, round the lake and back in the day I suspect. It's only a 55km round trip so pretty gentle. Cycling next to water normally means it's flat too!How'd you enjoy living on Mars for a day? All the photos made me a bit homesick...
We went to sleep with the windows open. I'm still trying to get rid of the dust. :-(((
Mrs Generali lived out in country NSW down by the VIC border as a child and she remembers the dust storms as being a regular thing. They'd get wet towels and jam them around the windows to try to keep the dust out. The red is iron oxide (aka rust) off the WA mountains I understand.
There's some more due in a couple of days I think although not so bad.
Did you see the pictures from Broken Hill? It went pitch dark!0 -
ah ok, yeh don't bother with the extra gear then. Thought you were doing a bit longer.It'll be up there, round the lake and back in the day I suspect. It's only a 55km round trip so pretty gentle. Cycling next to water normally means it's flat too!We went to sleep with the windows open. I'm still trying to get rid of the dust. :-(((
Mrs Generali lived out in country NSW down by the VIC border as a child and she remembers the dust storms as being a regular thing. They'd get wet towels and jam them around the windows to try to keep the dust out. The red is iron oxide (aka rust) off the WA mountains I understand.
There's some more due in a couple of days I think although not so bad.
Did you see the pictures from Broken Hill? It went pitch dark!
I've never seen anything like that, though I grew up in Syd. When I first saw the photos It reminded me of the 2000 (?) bushfires. We got ash from past Sutherland way on our balcony in Cronulla. I'll have to look up the Broken Hill pics...Sir_Humphrey wrote: »The Swahili do excellent seafood. The beaches in that part of the world are incredible too.
I remember being on the eastern coast of Zanzibar. Myself and my (female) travelling companion had an entire half-mile white coral sand beach (lined with palm trees) virtually to ourselves.
I thought you were poking fun at first. :rotfl:
But with the extra details I guess not!0 -
ah ok, yeh don't bother with the extra gear then. Thought you were doing a bit longer.
No. I'll take the mobile, some water and some cash.
I've got a vague plan to ride across the Nullabor plain (with suport). I think it's about 1000km and I'd be looking to go across in a week or so. I can't work out if that's brave or stupid - it's hard to tell where the lines are in a new country.I've never seen anything like that, though I grew up in Syd. When I first saw the photos It reminded me of the 2000 (?) bushfires. We got ash from past Sutherland way on our balcony in Cronulla. I'll have to look up the Broken Hill pics...
Broken Hill. 3.30pm on Tues AIUI:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrlD22HwPvI0 -
I thought you were poking fun at first. :rotfl:
But with the extra details I guess not!
Nope, I went there one summer when I was student (along with other parts of Kenya and Tanzania).
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J. K. Galbraith0 -
No. I'll take the mobile, some water and some cash.
I've got a vague plan to ride across the Nullabor plain (with suport). I think it's about 1000km and I'd be looking to go across in a week or so. I can't work out if that's brave or stupid - it's hard to tell where the lines are in a new country.
Probably stupid, but best of luck if you go for it.Broken Hill. 3.30pm on Tues AIUI:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrlD22HwPvI
Wow, that reminds me of the start of Flash Gordon. Except for the Darth Vader breathing at 0.36.0 -
Well Gorleston beach is not bad....Burton Bradstock is not bad but quite stoney whilst Felixstowe has had lots of work which although has improved the flood defences, does not really do anything for the beach itself.
Can't say anything about foreign beaches as I have never really been on one! (Tell a lie, Desenzano has a lovely view over Lake Garda but the beach was not the best for sitting on while waiting for eldest son to stop playing about on the gondola!)
On sea food, only buy fresh from our local fishermen at the ferry.....best for miles around.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0
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