God Save the Queen!

**** I created this post 1 day after arriving in Plymouth; however, I'm still a noob and hit "save" instead of "post".  Of course, since I'm also spastically incosistent, I didn't notice until now, 3 weeks later, as I attempt my next post.  Read on...


We made it to England, +7 bags.  God Save the Queen!  First stop was the Marks & Spencer Simply Food in Gatwick.  It was all I could ask for and more after a long delay in Munich due to snow, naturally.  Upon arrival in Plymouth, we quickly fell in love with this beautiful, quaint, massively old coastal city.  It far exceeded our expectations, and man, Brits are just awesomely funny.

We needed serious fuel to negotiate 7 bags through the airport.  This woman on the right's all like "bloody Yanks".

Obligatory new-city smooch.

I've already sampled the fish and chips and relaxed with my new friend, the BBC - he speaks English impeccibly.  I think I'm ready to go!  Should be an adventurous week as I scour the town for suitable housing - a feat at which I've become quite skillful.  Modus operandi, you ask?  The World Wide Web, my chucks, and a map (small enough that I'd don't look like Tourist of the Year - an irrational fear of mine...more on those later).  I will readily accept any guidance the concierge will provide me, given he doesn't hate me as I've phoned him no less than 4 times since arriving a few hours ago (I am my mother after all *smiles*).

I'm enjoying life as a blogger, green though I may be.  I only wish I'd have begun sooner, in Munich.  I suppose the internet would have been fundamental in that...

Returning to the randomness that I'd like this blog to maintain, I give you a new list.  This one, of whimsical thoughts that came to me of sleep deprivation and cultural disorientation!

1.  Etta James looks decidedly like cupid.  I just don't see the naken baby with wings, I see this soulful singer.  You pickin up what I'm puttin down?

2.  Cucumbers make water taste so fresh, I can't understand why I don't drop them in a tall glass more often.

3.  I'm no professor, but hearing someone use "could have went" in a sentence makes me cringe.

4.  The difference between tissues with aloe and tissues without is like the difference between cashmere and sandpaper.  Buy the aloe-enhanced.

5. Felt is a neglected textile.  It's innumerable uses and soft durability should not to be overlooked.  In Munich there was a shop dedicated entirely to felt.  I wanted to roll around in it.

6. There is a British sitcom called "Gavin & Stacey" - download it immediately.