[HUG] Re: Per Nordlund is back...and nervous

Dear Uncle Dick,
Forgive me for the intrusion I happened to see the mail you addressed to my cousin Ulrik. I think no warning can be sufficient to prepare Joanne and others for that matter concerning British cuisine. While still in college at the end of the sixties I made my first trip to England with a couple of good friends. We were om a tight budget and got used to super artificial looking green peas served at dinner On the last day of our stay we decided to have a decent meal at a restaurant that used to be visited by some King 
George  a few hundred years before us.
We were glad to get some nice fresh vegetables at last.
Some time after we ordered the waiter appeared again and informed us the cook was very sorry but the only vegetables available were peas. Our faces must have shown shock and horror as we discovered we got the same ugly green looking peas we had during all our other meals this time at 4 times the price of the other meals.
Take as much fresh fruit that you can carry and a lot of good chocolate bars when preparing for a short stay in England. 
Those who are enough foolish to plan a longer stay I recommend space food.
It is tasteless but little harm can come of it.

Richard.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stein" <rstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:21 PM
Subject: [HUG] Re: Per Nordlund is back...and nervous




Dear Nephew Ulrik,

You have to remember that these are British people we are talking
about. It is best to have no illusions about convenience and ease of supply. 
Of course one should not tar the whole nation of 80 million for the
behaviour of a mere 79,900,990 individuals, but it would be best to prepare Joanne - a mere slip of a girl and quite unused to foreign parts - for what 
she will encounter.

I will leave it to you to describe the cooking - and the hospitals -
and Heathrow on a hot afternoon. I will merely endeavour to ease her shock
at the ways of the British camera shop.

She would do well to ease into it slowly, lest the shock cause
cramping. A few minutes spent in the local Jessops being glared at will
harden her surface enough to enable her to attempt a visit to Bond St. After 
this wears off - a warm pack and massage helps - she can steel herself to
visit Grays of Westminster. I believe this is the store that Captain Scott
used to train himself at..." I'm just going inside for a while. I may be
some time..."

Uncle Dick



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