Travel thread

[doug rr]

I wonder what a day in London would be like with Trag

[spike]

I wonder what a day in London would be like with Trag

Ideally a stop at the British Museum, where he could rant about all the treasures the English have stolen and unabashedly display.

[bart]

I liked Cricket Soho for Indian food in London.

[doug rr]

I liked Cricket Soho for Indian food in London.

being from Baltimore, how do you feel about imitation crab?

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[bart]

I liked Cricket Soho for Indian food in London.

being from Baltimore, how do you feel about imitation crab?

I’m pro-imitation crab in the proper context.

[wease]

my wife just booked us for London in February for a week or so..

give us your best fish 'n chips recs so i'll know what to hit up the following month.

ive probably been to London 30 times in my life and I can't recall having fish and chips except for maybe in a pub..but if you want to go all out and spend too much money on seafood go to Scott's..good stuff

this will be my second time, wife's first. the last time I went was Dec 2000 with a few friends. we drank day and night, and I ate mostly pub grub, which I'm not mad about.

I'm interested in indian cuisine, which I know is plentiful.

You gonna maintain the no meat policy?

[E.H. Ruddock]

I wonder what a day in London would be like with Trag

Ideally a stop at the British Museum, where he could rant about all the treasures the English have stolen and unabashedly display.

You’re so off. I’d just scope out the good eats.

Nah, you’d find a local to complain about how the British road system doesn’t make sense in the post empirical world

[dad]

my wife just booked us for London in February for a week or so..

give us your best fish 'n chips recs so i'll know what to hit up the following month.

ive probably been to London 30 times in my life and I can't recall having fish and chips except for maybe in a pub..but if you want to go all out and spend too much money on seafood go to Scott's..good stuff

this will be my second time, wife's first. the last time I went was Dec 2000 with a few friends. we drank day and night, and I ate mostly pub grub, which I'm not mad about.

I'm interested in indian cuisine, which I know is plentiful.

You gonna maintain the no meat policy?

Nah, I’ll partake, probably not as much red meat though. If vegan options present themselves that’s great too.

[doug rr]

my wife just booked us for London in February for a week or so..

give us your best fish 'n chips recs so i'll know what to hit up the following month.

ive probably been to London 30 times in my life and I can't recall having fish and chips except for maybe in a pub..but if you want to go all out and spend too much money on seafood go to Scott's..good stuff

this will be my second time, wife's first. the last time I went was Dec 2000 with a few friends. we drank day and night, and I ate mostly pub grub, which I'm not mad about.

I'm interested in indian cuisine, which I know is plentiful.

You gonna maintain the no meat policy?

Nah, I’ll partake, probably not as much red meat though. If vegan options present themselves that’s great too.

steak tartare,,,

[dad]

my wife just booked us for London in February for a week or so..

give us your best fish 'n chips recs so i'll know what to hit up the following month.

ive probably been to London 30 times in my life and I can't recall having fish and chips except for maybe in a pub..but if you want to go all out and spend too much money on seafood go to Scott's..good stuff

this will be my second time, wife's first. the last time I went was Dec 2000 with a few friends. we drank day and night, and I ate mostly pub grub, which I'm not mad about.

I'm interested in indian cuisine, which I know is plentiful.

You gonna maintain the no meat policy?

Nah, I’ll partake, probably not as much red meat though. If vegan options present themselves that’s great too.

steak tartare,,,

doug.

[wease]

my wife just booked us for London in February for a week or so..

give us your best fish 'n chips recs so i'll know what to hit up the following month.

ive probably been to London 30 times in my life and I can't recall having fish and chips except for maybe in a pub..but if you want to go all out and spend too much money on seafood go to Scott's..good stuff

this will be my second time, wife's first. the last time I went was Dec 2000 with a few friends. we drank day and night, and I ate mostly pub grub, which I'm not mad about.

I'm interested in indian cuisine, which I know is plentiful.

You gonna maintain the no meat policy?

Nah, I’ll partake, probably not as much red meat though. If vegan options present themselves that’s great too.

steak tartare,,,

doug.

Oh, hell yes

[Higgs]

Wiffey and I want to go to Italy for a month in September. Ideally to Rome and then north from there. Mix of trains and driving.

No idea where to start researching where to go specifically or what not to miss.

More into scenery and food and quieter options but for sure will tick off some big ticket tourist attractions as well.

Any thoughts/tips/places to visit from those of you who have some knowledge of Italy?

[Bammer]

Wiffey and I want to go to Italy for a month in September. Ideally to Rome and then north from there. Mix of trains and driving.

No idea where to start researching where to go specifically or what not to miss.

More into scenery and food and quieter options but for sure will tick off some big ticket tourist attractions as well.

Any thoughts/tips/places to visit from those of you who have some knowledge of Italy?

Good God, my man, use the Italy / Rome thread in the travel sub-forum.

[spike]

Wiffey and I want to go to Italy for a month in September. Ideally to Rome and then north from there. Mix of trains and driving.

No idea where to start researching where to go specifically or what not to miss.

More into scenery and food and quieter options but for sure will tick off some big ticket tourist attractions as well.

Any thoughts/tips/places to visit from those of you who have some knowledge of Italy?

Lake Como

[Chris_H_2]

Wiffey and I want to go to Italy for a month in September. Ideally to Rome and then north from there. Mix of trains and driving.

No idea where to start researching where to go specifically or what not to miss.

More into scenery and food and quieter options but for sure will tick off some big ticket tourist attractions as well.

Any thoughts/tips/places to visit from those of you who have some knowledge of Italy?

Lake Como

when's the last time you were in lake cuomo?

post-covid it's become lake geneva with more scenery and fewer left-lane hoggers.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Go to Bologna. Best smaller city in Italy.

[doug rr]

Olive Garden

[spike]

Wiffey and I want to go to Italy for a month in September. Ideally to Rome and then north from there. Mix of trains and driving.

No idea where to start researching where to go specifically or what not to miss.

More into scenery and food and quieter options but for sure will tick off some big ticket tourist attractions as well.

Any thoughts/tips/places to visit from those of you who have some knowledge of Italy?

Lake Como

when's the last time you were in lake cuomo?

post-covid it's become lake geneva with more scenery and fewer left-lane hoggers.

The roads there aren’t as wide as one lane!

[Bammer]

My favorite thing we did in Rome was a walking food tour through a not-particularly-touristy neighborhood. We stopped at about 7 different places … an appetizer here, a drink there, a pastry, some cheese, a pizza … it was great, with some education along the way.