Holiday part 2

In part 2 of the holiday series, I'd like to take you to to a wonderful little tea room in Shipston-on-Stour. Well, actually, I can't take you there literally, but you catch my drift. N and I took S there to have some tea and lunch (quite hungry at 14:00).

S had a cheese-scone with avocado, brie or camembert and cress

N had toast with scrambled eggs and bacon

For myself, I ordered a classic scone with strawberry jam and clotted cream

Note about the clotted cream: I had always wondered what it would be like, since it can't be bought here in the Netherlands. It turned out to be closer to butter than to whipped cream, which may alternatively be served in the Netherlands when having tea (for example, at the Theefabriek). It was rich. It was delicious. It was artery-clogging, heart-stoppingly good. Yum!
Also, I think this was the first time I had an actual, full-sized scone. Not the mini-versions we always sample at the Theefabriek, nor the selfmade attempts at scones that wouldn't rise and stay compact little bricks. No, this was a piece of pastry, the size of a tennisball, very fluffy yet satisfying.

To me, it made for a very nice English tea-drinking event.

Lunch at Silo Today

Lately, it seems like we haven't been eating at home anymore, but instead always eat out. No difference there today, when we were having lunch at Silo Today.

It's a small lunchroom, situated in - you guessed it - an old silo. It used to be called something like 'the Cereal Silo' and housed a restaurant. Apparently the restaurant wasn't doing great business. Nowadays, it houses several (startup?) companies and also this lunchroom.

N got there before me, and from listening to other people's conversations, she could extract that this was a lunch spot for employees from companies nearby. When I got there, I noticed the majority of the guests were female, somewhere between 30 and 50 years of age. The menu seemed to have been adapted to that crowd, mainly listing rolls and salads.

No matter, I ordered one tall glas of hot chocolate. Okay, it wasn't that hot, but it tasted good. Additionally, the glass had a print that said "per l'uomo" (for the man) and a big male sign underneath that. Apparently, men don't get here very often and special hot chocolate glasses are used to stress that fact. Or something like that. Whatever, I'm just blabbering.

N had a club sandwich (without the cheese, because of her lactose intolerance) and some freshly pressed orange juice. I got to sample a piece of the sandwich and it was good, it had some nice mayonaise on it. Nowhere near as much of a quantity as at Puur! (see previous post), but it sufficed.

For myself, I chose the sourdough bread with bacon and old goat's cheese. It was plain and simple, tasted well and only cost 3,95. Quantity-wise, it wasn't that much (again, I thought, adapted to a woman's appetite) but since I wasn't too hungry anyway I didn't care about that.

All in all I think it's a nice place to have lunch, not too big and not too crowded. Situated at the edge of the city's centre, I think it's good for the city to have gained an extra lunch spot.

Lunch at Puur!

So, there it is: the third and final post, needed to catch up. This time, it's about lunch today. N took me for lunch to Puur!.

It's a rather trendy place which only uses biological things or so, I don't know exactly.

We had a tall, cool glass of OJ.

N had the salmon club sandwich, pictured above. I had the regular club sandwich, which had chicken breast filet, bacon, egg and tomato. Very nice.

The place didn't only have MacBook-yuppies, trendily listening to their iPods, but also some funny art by Zeptonn:

Digital prints on canvas. Also, there were wall paintings and stickers. Very nice! It made me want to recreate such art.

Germany

On our way to G&A's wedding in Norway, we're taking a break and spending the two weeks leading to the wedding in various parts of Scandinavia. That's why I haven't posted anything for a while now.

I'm typing this while we're in Sweden (Alingsås), staying at the home of two Dutch friends who kindly let us stay here while they're in Holland for a while. Tomorrow we'll be heading for another place in Sweden where we probably won't have any internet available, so I'll post a lot of articles now at once.

Our first stop was in Germany, where we had a great lunch at a highway restaurant: Jaegerschnitzel I believe it was. For sides we could choose from fries or baked potatoes with bacon. N chose the fries and I chose the baked potatoes.

As I love schnitzel, especially with the Jaeger-sauce (Hunter's sauce) to accompany it, I was a very satisfied Kurger after the meal. N couldn't finish her own (it was too much) by herself, so I had the pleasure of finishing it together with her. Even more satisfied!

That was a great lunch to start a holiday with.