Holiday!

I’m off on holiday for a week. This is a monumentous occasion for me – I haven’t actually had a real holiday since the “vacation” following my second year, the majority of which I spent doing my mapping project, and it’s the first non-family based holiday since touring the Broads at the end of first year.

I’m so looking forward to it.

In the meantime, I leave you with a complicated and difficult decision. A or B?

A or B. The toughest decision since steak and ale or steak and kidney pie.

Following in the style of the first post, here’s another food based review!

Why break the habit of a lifetime? Or even just a few days? Today I visited a pub in deepest Norfolk for lunch, the Cat and Fiddle in East Rudham. And I was so impressed that I decided to write about it.

For starters, there was everything that you’d expect from a good pub. An aesthetically pleasing interior (though not so aesthetically pleasing clientele – fat women in thongs should not wear see-through skirts under any circumstances), a range of difficult but hard to find real ales, and friendly, welcoming staff. A clean, laid out table carried a clear, well stocked and very well priced lunch menu (at least by Leeds standards). Deciding to risk another potato and beans after last week’s attempt, I tentativly approached the bar with the standard “I have food allergies…” spiel prepared, Seamless Multipurpose Wear on head (sorry, but I had to work that in somewhere) and order in hand. To my suprise the bar man went and fetched the actual tin of beans they would use on my potato straight away. He was then joined by the chef/waitress lady, who explained her policies on such things as not putting butter on food by default, which is good for anyone watching their diet, let alone someone with a milk allergy. The bar man then went on to discuss his feelings on presentation of ingredients and additives in foods in a modern resturaunt, an idea that many places would be wise to adopt.

And just so you know, it was a damn nice potato too. It’s says a lot when the only thing you can find to complain about a place is that the fat lady sat at the bar was very inappropriately dressed, so if you read this blog, happen to be driving through North Norfolk in the near future, and want somewhere nice to stop that also deals well with food allergies, then the Cat and Fiddle is your place.