My tour of Scotland en femme with my good friend Roz was a delight and I will write about that properly in due course. Scotland is famous for its wind and taking my brand new wig there was a bad idea! It needs serious care after being turned inside out.
I take Luggy the lugubrious LGBT Crab and Lizzy the Lesbian Lobster on my travels to spot any LGBT news. There was little to report, though. Luggy feels at home by the sea and sends greetings to all LGBT readers and allies.
I had forgotten how interesting the rail journey up the East Coast of Britain is, through beautiful cities: Peterborough and its Norman cathedral, Newark and its castle over the Trent, old York redolent with history, Newcastle and its spectacular collection of bridges, fortified Berwick and its mighty Royal Border Bridge, magnificent Edinburgh …
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| The Royal Border Bridge over the river Tweed at Berwick, with train. When completed in 1850 this was the largest bridge in the world and still carries the railway between England and Scotland. |
I get as many comments on this blog about the food I’ve been eating as about the frocks I’ve been wearing, so recent meals have included classic staples like fish and chips (not bad, but we had to have haddock since cod is overfished) and that uniquely Scottish dish, haggis, with roast parsnips and mashed potato (what, no neeps?). I would like to single out the excellent and generous portion of shoulder of lamb with assorted roast vegetables in Berwick, just back across the border in England. That was a treat and genuinely local.
I hope to post properly again this weekend.
Sue x
I've never travelled on the East Coast line beyond Milton Keynes. It does sound wonderful. I've been to Newcastle many times. It's my favourite city in the world. My rail journeys have all been on the West Coast and Penzance to Paddington lines.
ReplyDeleteAs to the trans and food blogging, well there is a niche to fill now Franziska has stopped blogging.
The food does sound especially lovely.
Dee xxx
Once you've seen Milton Keynes, why would you want to see anywhere else? (Might be a slogan from the now defunct Milton Keynes Tourist Company!)
DeleteI have noticed the high volume of commenters that are interested in any food I write about so if that makes people salivate as much as the frocks, let's write about that!
If you like railway journeys, you may like to try the old LSWR line in the South West, now run by South Western Railway, especially the stretch from Salisbury to Honiton.
Sue xx