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Back Down South

Posted on 2007/04/11 21:42:55 (April 2007).

[Monday 9th April]
We got up fairly early this morning (considering it was a bank holiday) packed the last few things we could squeeze into the car, and then headed off back down to South Wales.

I opted to take the driving seat for the return journey, but found it surprisingly difficult - it seems just a couple of weeks of driving an automatic on the big wide roads of California is enough to make me quite unprepared for going back to a manual and the windy little country lanes of Wales.

We did finally meet the holiday traffic today as well, having been quite lucky in avoiding it at the start of the Easter weekend. So it seemed to take forever to get back down to Abergavenny - the afternoon was almost over by the time we arrived, to be greeted by a much appreciated cup of tea.

We went out in the evening, to a pub/restaurant in Abergavenny that has just recently opened . Vera announced on the way in that she rather fancied a Cinzano. After taking our table we ordered drinks, and something of a debate ensued given that the waitress seemingly thought a Cinzano was a Martini with lemonade. It was oddly quite spellbinding to sit and listen to Robin explaining in painstaking detail what exactly Cinzano was.

The food was actually OK though, although slightly disappointingly they had ran out of my first choice which I'd plumped for on the basis of having Y Fenni cheese in it. You know, when in Rome.

Comment 1

Yeah, I went out on Monday for some petrol - for the first time in my own car for a week - and found the roads totally clogged with traffic. Given where I live it is people either heading into, or out-of Wales. The sheer numbers surprised me!

Posted by Nigel at 2007/04/12 07:19:51.

Comment 2

Cinzano..... What an odd choice.... It's an Italian drink that has you can find in every bar, but that is not publicized anymore, probably because it's an old spirit...

Posted by Lox at 2007/04/12 08:11:30.

Comment 3

Would that have been Cinzano Bianco or Rosso, interestingly according to wikipedia ( which incidentally has been named by its co-founder as broken )
You can get all sort or flavoured variations like lemon or orange.