UK2018 Trip - Dec 2
Dec. 2nd, 2018 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johncomicThe hotel wifi was a bit better behaved this morning! And an even more welcome surprise: Local Hero was on TV -- one of our very fave films! And most apropos, as its Scottish setting closely resembles the north of England where we find ourselves now:
While shopping afterward, I found a significant bargain on bamboo socks, which the ladies insisted were life-changing and necessary for me to acquire, and who am I to argue?
We spent the afternoon at the Christmas fair at The Piece Hall:
a most imposing historic edifice:
offering shops, music, crowds, columns, antique doors both stark:
and decorative:
In the evening, Margery and her family took us to dinner at the locally renowned Indian restaurant Syhiba, where we had excellent butter chicken:
and naan bread so immense that they need to hang it on hooks on metal trees:
Another full day, leaving us sated and pleasantly fatigued.
While shopping afterward, I found a significant bargain on bamboo socks, which the ladies insisted were life-changing and necessary for me to acquire, and who am I to argue?
We spent the afternoon at the Christmas fair at The Piece Hall:
a most imposing historic edifice:
offering shops, music, crowds, columns, antique doors both stark:
and decorative:
In the evening, Margery and her family took us to dinner at the locally renowned Indian restaurant Syhiba, where we had excellent butter chicken:
and naan bread so immense that they need to hang it on hooks on metal trees:
Another full day, leaving us sated and pleasantly fatigued.
