Journal

Highland Fling

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 03:24:13 -0700

This weekend I went to my cousin's wedding which was held at The Golf View Hotel in Nairn to see him get married to a lovely Scottish girl called Jenny. Nairn is near Inverness, right up north in Scotland and the hotel was on the Moray Firth which is stunning.

The weather was a once in a lifetime experience for the Scots as it was 29 degrees and we even got sun burnt! In Scotland! The sunny weather meant that the service was held outside with the firth as the background. Jenny (much to our amusement) insisted that the groom (my cousin - a burly policeman), the best man (his brother) & ushers (his other 2 brothers - identical twins) and my uncle, the father of the groom wore kilts! Now, if you know that side of the family (who are my English/Kenyan side) this is quite an amusing sight. My uncle wore his kilt with a nice little safari sunhat and the two ushers/best man wore their kilts with flipflops.

Writing from a January in Cuba

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:08:11 -0700

Guy and I were in Cuba for just under a month at the beginning of the year. We hired a car and literally saw the whole island - east, west, north and south! From mountains to beaches to cities, from state-run hotels, to shockingly toursity all inclusive resort, to Cuban family "casas". We smoked cigars, drank rum, ran out of petrol, made friends with piglets on a beach, ate lobster, learnt some Spanish and became supporters of la revolucion (just kidding).

Tapas in Madrid

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 14:24:08 -0700

Tapas, I've decided, is completely overrated. After a week in Madrid I had to resort to giving up on the tapas and visited 2 Italian restuarants, 2 French restaurants and a Vietnamese. Yum. Now, it's not that I don't appreciate the usual meatballs, chorizo, spanish omelette combo most tourists go for, it's the sharing I object to. Tapas is my worst food nightmare. I don't share food, no, I can't share food.

First blog

Tue, 23 May 2006 10:46:08 -0700

This is my first blog ever. The only person's blog I really enjoy reading and see the point of is someone who goes by the name of "Jaffacake", which may, due to my obsession with food be why I like her blog in particular. Oh and the fact that her blog makes me laugh by having that knack of pointing out what us ladies are always thinking but can never put in the right words and in very good (always grammatically correct) words.