Hello again. You sure rise early! I got up just a little while ago, feeling
much better and hoping to stay that way. By the way, my doctor says we should
let more time pass before my next, and final, consolidation. That's good news
to me. I need at least a short rest from hospital.
I grew up in London, and will never lose my love for it. It changes and it
stays the same, and I always feel totally relaxed there. My friend and I were
about to pay it a visit, as also Paris, when I got knocked out of action by my
diagnosis. We plan to celebrate my recovery some time in the new year,
whenever that may be ...
Everyone says the same thing about the food, but in our visits my friend and I
have had no difficulty -- except for a cold fried egg that will never be
forgotten, and a hamburger we had near Stonehenge that might just as well have
been one of the celebrated stones. We come from different cultures but we
agree that nothing beats a good English breakfast if it is well prepared. Oh,
the butter! Of course a lot depends on where you eat. Foreign restaurants are
a good idea! The Indian food in London was scrumptuous, and we ate a lot of
Chinese (my friend is Chinese). If you stay with a family, well that can be
pretty daunting, though things are improving. As for the beer, stay away from
the dark stuff and ask for lager, which basically is the same as American
beer, and, in my experience anyway, is served cold. Anyway, glad you enjoyed
Britain. You have to remember that America has what has to be the best food in
the world. It is one of the first things a new arrival notices. I fondly
remember my first grilled cheese sandwich, eaten at a roadside restaurant when
I took a Greyhound from Manhattan to Montreal en route for my first years on
this side of the Atlantic, which I spent in the then undivided Montreal where
I grew to love the cold and the snow.
On the other hand, I know a New Yorker who (before I acquired my present
condition) loved to go to a nearby pub with me for shepherd's pie while I had
fish and chips straight from heaven. Couldn't be a more British! But with a
distinctly glorified American accent ...
Enjoy that good American food. The only thing I don't like about it is the
bread. When I first came here, it all tasted like cake. It still does. I
usually buy French or Italian bread. Years ago a visiting English friend said
he loved American food except that everthing tasted of pepper -- including the
apple pie!
Happy days.
Love from a stranger
-- Ron
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