Thanks publicly to Adam and Elaine, who won the "first to visit Bern" prize of being repeatedly attacked by wasps, and with whom we spent many a happy hour in Bern and Paris. In Paris, I ate the fantastic "La Tentation de Saint Antoine" (pictured), which is a collection of random pig bits, fried, and served with Sauce Bernaise, which I suspect might have mollified the unrelenting fattiness of the dish. Still, it killed four random pig bits (cheek, tail, trotter and ear) with one stone.
In Brief: Rest of the Holiday:
- The Drew Nuptials, which you all know about already;
- Delays on the Cambridge-bound train;
- Breakdown of the sleeper train, meaning that instead of waking up in Cornwall we had to get off the train in Plymouth and get on a coach for three and a half hours;
- Wonderful St Ives, including Lobster (pictured) Seal watching, House of the Dead 4 (there really weren't this many last time) and Barbara Hepworth (art, not dead person);
- Successful sleeper to London, and free visit to the First-class lounge in Paddington (very nice);
- Missing Eurostar (misread tickets) and nearly having to pay 300 pounds for new tickets until the nice lady took pity on us (we still had to pay 80 pounds).
