Home Cookin'

A sort of split personality to the day today.  Started out quite nice, with more blue sky.  It quickly turned gray, though, and has been raining on and off most of the day.  We'll call it half a day in ye olde rainy day counter.

I came home to a nice surprise.  I suspected something was up when the hotel hallway didn't smell like disinfectant, but garlic.  Fiona had gone off to the store and used our meagre, closet sized kitchen to whip up a wonderful Italian dinner, complete with garlic bread and a nice wine.  

We're excited about going house hunting tomorrow.  We've also started looking at some other "necessities" like a car and TV.  The cars are intriguing, because you have to take everything you know about North American cars and throw it out the window.  Here, Skoda is actually a reasonable choice.  We're thinking it will be one car only for us.  Gas is about 1.16 a litre (8 USD per gallon), so I'll be bussing it and we'll continue to do this odd thing we see others do around here - walking - as much as possible.  TV is depressing.  There is almost nothing on.  In a way that can be good, it will get us outside more.

An interesting movie is coming out here on the weekend, hitting on the Scottish theme.  It's called "Stone of Destiny" and stars Robert Carlyle (running from zombies in 28 days later and sequels, James Bond villain, and more).  It is a true story about some Scottish students who broke into Westminster and stole back the a stone that had been used throughout Scottish history in the crowning of their kings.  Looks kind of cool.  You can watch and imagine us walking around in the background.

Cheers,

Rik