h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

nice entry

i dont know whether to be amused or worried that this sounds so much like cambridge UK, with out the hills

FABT

but nothing - nothing - nothing - beats Milton Keynes for sheer hair-tearing frustration. Roundabouts - oh God the roundabouts

mitchems corner cambridge

in a league of its own

FABT

oh - kay........*mental note*..avoid mitchems corner when next in Cambridge - have been meaning to come to Cambridge

it's a bit hard to avoid because it is on the road from anywhere to everywhere else

FABT

yay, true.......but I rarely go anywhere........

if you do visit cambridge then the best thing to do is leave your car somewhere else and walk. and get a good map.

FABT

AC-tually - I really like Cambridge - the colleges, the bridges, the romance! Food at Browns or coffe at Clowns. Am definitely going to tick off the Scott Polar Institute someday.

At least Cambridge has history, a seat of learning and some beauty. If you want a confusing one way system in a place that lacks all these...and any kind of centre or reference point...try Stoke.

*mental note* avoid Stoke at all costs

the whipple museum of the history of science and technonolgy is very good for an hours pondering before you go for an ice cream after lunch

you'll need to check the opening hours because they are a bit odd but it certainly worth a visit, escpecially if you are a scientist. the old microsopes and stuff are REALLY cool


also punting is good, followed by ice cream (thorntons is the best)

and the englisch teddy bear company shop and all the other touristy places on kings parade.

FABT

someone else likes ice cream as much as me...I looked for a picture of this but the nearest is - we really should have an ice cream picture.. My fav is chubby hubby, its chocolate and peanut butter, I think its Ben and Jerries, the other is called Fhish food and its choc with little choc fishes in it...yummy
I keep meaning to get back to Amman, I will soon

will you be able to find your way back to amman through this ice cream jam...(raspberry ripple probably)....?

Actually I meant back to the subject of Amman. I was in the airport in 1977 en route to Saudi Arabia, I was asked for airport tax for some reason though I was in transit, I didn't have a bean on me but someone I had met on the plane paid it for me then told his large extended family I was his fiance, he was speaking in Arabic and I just wondered why the entire family was looking at me frozen with horror

i like fish food too.

my fave thorntons icecream is the double choc one which is really sticky.

the only food i liked in germany was the chocolate icecream, lovely and bitter.


julyflower.....how did you know what the guy said if you dont speak arabic?

FABT

Because he explained to me (in English) why his whole family who had been been happy and smiling suddenly looked at me and

I have never tried Thorntons ice cream but I will!

Germany - you can't not like Ritter sport

Julyflower - I suspect that may be the single most interesting thing to have happened at Amman Airport (hijackings excluded).

So did you marry him?

Gif

It must be really annoying being small and furry, people coming up to pat and stroke you the whole time?

No I didn't marry the Jordanin army captain though I have a photo of us taken by an air hostess

Anyway that's only when the adventures begun , when I arrived in Riyadh I was surrounded by hordes of taxi drivers fighting over me and my luggage.........I was disappearing under the scrum...

chubby hubby is indeed a ben and jerry's ice cream. the other flavor is "phish food," spelled with a ph, not an f at the beginning, in honor of the music band "phish," which is legendary in the "jam-band" scene in the united states. phish is amazing, and the ice cream can only aspire to be as good...