As part of our (hopefully) last few days of living from a hotel, we elected to stay at the Holiday Inn Express, out by the Glasgow Airport in Paisley. As reward for our patronage, we were given this fabulous wakeup service, ’round about 5:50 a.m. After standing about outside for nearly half an hour, we all filed back in to our rooms, with no explanation as to why we’d all been turned out.
Suffice it to say that we needed our chais and coffees when we finally made it out of the room this afternoon, to have a wonderful meal with Midsummer’s Night Knitter.
Oh — a side note: seeing ‘Fah-HEE-tah’ on a menu caused a burst of wild laughter in a restaurant the other day – but we remembered that Mexican food doesn’t really exist in the UK, so a phonetic spelling of fajita was actually doing quite well for Scotland. TGI Friday’s is… essentially still a bar with incidental restaurant tables around it, but we’ve got to give it points for that. Still think the food hasn’t been as bad as everyone led us to expect – we’re very grateful for that!!
– D & T
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Here is another Scot who thinks you are mad for leaving North California! But you couldn’t have left it for a better place than Glasgow! lol Take a taxi to Pollokshaws Road,and a wee Italian cafe called Bongiournos – fab sandwiches and pasta. Btw, its on the Southside.
I always have to ask people why they are in Fredericton. Not because I find anything really wrong with here, but more because I just don’t know what anyone would come here who is not from here. And I think that most peoples idea of California is hot, sunny beaches and lots of movie stars. Compare that to cool, rainy, damp, dark in the winter weather and no wonder they ask.
I still treasure my memory of the first time my husband pronounced this as fah-jitta. It ranks right up there with Joo-nee-perroh- sarah for Junipero Serra.
And I always tell people who ask me that I came here for the weather. They always laugh and treat it as a joke, having no idea how much I like rain.
I can imagine the laughter at the fah-HEE-tah 😀