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

Rome. Absolutely beautiful place. Ab-so-lutely. Beau-ti-ful. The buildings, and a silly propotion of the people too.

Just to be positive.

Rome.

8am, cafes full of incredibly handsome men sitting in impeccable suits, drinking esspresso and smoking cigarettes while unfeasibly glamourous women ride past on vespas, and road sweepers tidy up wearing Armani overalls.

Yeah.......Roma

Maybe it's just Italy airscotia? I found this with the Amalfi run, although I may just have had my eyes tightly shut around some of the bends. but and

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Well, anyway, went to Maioria on the Amalfi riviera as a child and was thoroughly terrified driving to it from Naples. Big fall off a cliff when you're not used to Italian driving.

I loved Rome too. Dirty in places, and some of the back streets near Roma Termini and the Vatican stank of piss, but that's true of all cities, isn't it?

I was there for only three days, if I remember right. I must go back.

TRiG.

First real head over heels love affair.
Remembrance of things past.
Highbury on a match day
Lords on a match day
Convent Garden Opera to watch Wagner's Parsifal
Outback Australia
Parachute jump
Oysters
Isle of Wight
first take off


for now.

Holiday? Oversea's? Why not go to Cleethorpes Live's up to all our expectations of weather, windy sea fronts and amusment arcades Character building.

Like my Mum says "Too many foriners (sic) abroad". It's my Mum She must be right, she is 90

New York - brilliant place and I found New Yorkers to be incredibly helpful and friendly.

Oysters? I'd have put them in that other thread. Never mind - horses for courses.

St. Agnes Bay Cornwall
Scampi and chips at the pub, right on the edge of St. Agnes bay.
Cod and chips in a bog standard chippy at the entrance of the Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth

(Actually all these things surpassed expectations.)

Mum's cooking.

Rome- could do with the volume turned down a bit, everywhere seems to be set at 11!! And far too many cats, urgh

Eden Project- absobloominlutely fantastic. A real work of engineering genius, and the plants inside and out are a treat. Very informative without being too 'in your face', as well. And, not for from Heligan, which is stunning too.

The view from the Hells Mouth in Cornwall followed by and at the cafe opposite

Charmouth beach in Dorset, perhaps not a spectacular beach as such, but for the 35 years worth of family memories of day trips and weekends away, from being a child myself through to being a parent

A bottle of wine from a winery in Lyme Bay,while we are there, only once has that not lived up expectations but over the years we have exhausted the list

Clive's post made me think of my Mum's roast potatoes

Bread sauce

English cheese. There was a year or two when I got back from Russia where I could not eat enough English cheese. Considering how I had been fantasising about it for seven years*, it is surprising that it was as good as I remembered it.

*Not constantly you understand. Sometimes I thought longingly about sausages. Or peanut butter.

Fish soup in Madrid with plenty of clams thrown in..served with a chilled red of some kind.

And the Prado doesn't disappoint.

Venice - I'll remember my time there until my dying day.

Lizard Point and Place, near Falmouth in Cornwall.

Falling head over heels in love for the first time.

My university graduation day.

Just for you to get your teeth into HI

Sanctimonious gaurdianista

I've been called worse.

What can I say, as an 18 year old lad who'd only left Liverpool a handful of times Venice was a huge deal for me.

I lived in Falmouth (well, Penryn) for a while so Place and Lizard were relatively local for me. For a kid with my background, graduating from a prestigious university with a good degree was a massive achievement and something a lot of people (myself included) didn't really believe would happen.