Since the snow discouraged us from taking our walk, we decided a nice relaxing Sunday lunch at a pub would be great. So we walked to The White Hart in Nettlebed. The White Hart is what's known as a Gastro-Pub. Not your ordinary pub with beer and pub grub, these are gourmet restaurants in a pub-like setting. They serve more wine than beer and have quite impressive menus. On Sunday, The White Hart has a fixed-prix menu, the price depends on whether you have one, two or three courses. We had a wonderful appetizer, then roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, but were too full for the dessert. It was wonderful. And the price seemed very reasonable, only 36. Of course, we made the obvious visitor mistake in not calculating the exchange rate. The 36 was POUNDS! We had a $72 lunch! Gotta be more careful. Since it was after 3:00 when we left the pub and we were so full, we just skipped dinner.
As we went to bed, we noticed that is was snowing again, although quite lightly this time. Finally, we both slept through the night without waking up for a few hours at 1:00 AM. Hopefully, the jet lag is done with.
In the morning, everything had a blanket of snow cover. Even though it melted soon, it prevented our walk again. We just aren't equipped for the mud that comes after the melting.
So we drove into Henley for some food shopping. Tesco is a quite impressive "superstore". Fully equipped and with the lowest prices we've found so far. Problem is, the brands are mostly unrecognizable to us, they use metric weights and volumes, and the packaging styles are quite different. This will take some getting used to.
Since we aren't getting our walks in, we decided we needed to find a gym for working out. Most of the gyms want us to join, but our travel schedule doesn't allow that very easily. We found a place in Henley, LA Fitness, that gave us a flexible arrangement. So tomorrow morning, we start getting back into an attempt at keeping fit.
The driving on the left and shifting with the left hand is becoming easier. Hopefully in a few days, it'll be second nature and Bill will be more relaxed and Claire won't be in a constant panic.
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Good luck getting that exercise in! You haven't found a couple pair of Wellies lurking in a closet somewhere in the cottage?
You've probably heard our stories about driving in New Zealand. We managed to lose a hubcap before even leaving the rental car lot at the airport.
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