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

... with you and cheese? No really, I feel I've been patient long enough and enquiring minds need to know. Not that I'm compalining, but I can't look at peer review these days with out starting to drool...

And I believe we share the same time zone. Which obviously needs celebrating. Sadly I can't spell your place of residence, or I'd ask you where it actually is...

Thanks.

But of these ... (and many more), only four are mine.

A823349 Stilton Cheese Edited 66%
A152821 Cheese Whiz - an American Delicacy Edited 64%
A823367 Camembert Cheese Edited 63%
A306974 Parmigiano Reggiano - aka Parmesan Cheese Edited 62%
A702811 Edam Cheese Edited 62%
A262414 Velveeta Cheese Edited 62%


A853058 Feta Cheese - 50%
A695135 Gouda Cheese - 44%
A850754 Cheddar Cheese Recommended 42%
A858864 Mozzarella Cheese - 37%
A823024 Brunost - Norwegian Brown Cheese - 40%

I am about four hours south of you, on a desert island.

DMT

Well, yes true, but I still think you have a cheese fixation. Not that this is a bad thing you understand. It's one of the very few things I miss is cheese. But if you don't want to tell me, fine

A desert island? For real? Why?

Well it's an island and it's mostly desert.

And mostly it's covered with nodding-donkeys!

DMT

Haloumi next.

That's odd. Can't reply to your post, but seem to be able to reply to mine. Anyway.

Nodding donkeys? What in god's name?

I refuse to ask where Hal... Halo... Ha... The other place you mentioned is and therefore expose my ignorance of geography... But? Pretty please?

My island. It is full of nodding-donkeys. Oil-wells. And it is in the Persian Gulf, connected by Causeway, possibly the world's longest, to Saudi Arabia. Need any more clues?

Haloumi is a cheese, one of my favourites.

Can't you get any cheese in Moscow?

Oh! I thought it was a place Perhaps giving up geography in the third year wasn't such a good idea. Although I like to think that it has something to do with the fact that the biggness of Russia freaks me out so much that the only way I can cope is by pretending most of it (and by extension the rest of the world) doesn't actually exist.

Anyway. I've located you now. 'Nodding donkeys' I thought you might be talking about cheap torist tat.

And as for cheese. It depends. Where I shop, you can get a varietys of Russian cheeses which are not worthy of the name (surprising as they are rather good at other milk products). One variety of quite nice blue cheese. Gouda. And Edam (which I don't like anyway).

Do you shop in that long 'GUM' thing that runs along the side of Red Square.

Not really. It's full of boutiques and Nike/Body Shop outlets. The sell quite nice ice cream. But then they sell quite nice ice cream everywhere.

From memory.

Start off from St Basils, go along past GUM, then under an underpass where they have a congregation of Lenin lookalikes with whom to be photographed. The Bolshoi are over there on the right, but instead veer sort of left, but mostly straight ahead.

There is a busy street gradually climbing up a gentle hill. There is a Pizza Hut on the right. Near that Pizza hut there's a sort of delicatessen.

Don't they have cheese?

Yes, but this is a tad out of my way, don't you know? And as I mentioned, not where I shop./ Bersides, I'm a teacher - no monery for your fancy western shops...

It didn't seem Western to me. It was the sort of place where you queue up to buy a piece of paper, then take your piece of paper over to the other counter and then await your produce. Teaching ... what?

Now that is about as far from a western shop as you can get. Not many of those left now... OK OK I give in. I still doubt it will sell me wenslydale, red leicester or a brand of chedder not made in germany, but I am willing to conceede that perhaps I am not as cheese deprived as I like to think myself...

Teaching... English. Can't you tell from my elegant turn of phrase, admirable grasp of grammar and truly immaculate spelling?

I should have guessed it from the stuff you wrote on your denims. Lit or Language?

Oh heavens: I was a history nut then, with low reading tastes. English as a foreign language, actually. So Language...

You enjoy the cold weather?

Generally yes. Though of late years I've been daydreaming a bit about warm summer evenings, which was something I'd never thought I'd say. I also enjoyed getting out of it (and into rain) this Cristmas. Time to move perhaps.

And you have no idea how much cheese I brought back with me...

Good holiday season with you?