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

Hello welcome to a new feature, currently i am reading The War at the
End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa, being only a third of the way through the review is still on the drawing board but gearing up for it by suggesting a drink to go with it, taking into account the authors nationality a chilean wine would be most appropriate possibly a cambernet sauvignon and seeing that the novel has a religious theme it has to be a red wine
More to follow..............

You may find a Chilean Merlot more appropriate - and nicer!

I will take your words of wisdom on board sure that a wine expert like yourself could detect the subtle bouquet of the merlot compared with the cheeky cabernet
xxx

I call Merlot the chocolate wine because it has a hint of vanilla but with slight bitter undertones - like good chocolate. It's a nice mellow wine to relax to - so ideal with a good book.

A certain supermarket (that doesn't start with an 'S') has a nice Chilean Merlot on special offer at the moment.

A chocolate wine sounds good to me, that reminds me have been told off for losing too much weight which means i will have to eat more which is a blow as you can imagine!! Perhaps could write a gain more weight after christmas book

How much weight have you lost? And is it just a result of becoming vegan?

Not sure stopped getting weighed a while ago but would put it at around half a stone and totally down to being a vegan, girls in work are green with envy as they are trying every diet known to man and still not losing weight, i just smile and tell them to try veganism, no takers so far

I lost quite a lot in the first 6 months or so - then stabilized and now I've started putting it back on again . Can't quite figure out why as I don't think I'm doing anything different. Except not training as much I suppose - I've lost my enthusiasm for just doing gym stuff since I went to Peru. I need a new mission!

your mission should you choose to accept it is a walk at Caer Caradoc,
no only joking would love to go out walking with you tomorrow but its not on is it, have you thought about a Sunday or is that yoga assignment looming large

I have plenty of time for the assignment (she says, having not done anything yet and a whole week has gone by already).
I'll e-mail you about it.

(This is a very strange book review!)

Thats alright it is a very strange book if you are interested in the book type mario vargas llosa into the search engine at the top of the page and the first suggestion makes interesting reading

I thought you said he was Chilean? Wasn't that why you were going to have some Chilean wine?
I wouldn't bother trying Peruvian wine - it's disgusting

He sounds like a real writer. Very 'exotic' (for want of a better word) lifestyle. Fancy marrying your Auntie!!! Lima is a strange place - I should think anyone who went to university there would have loads to write about. It made me feel very sad and helpless.

0/10 for geography i was only a few hundred miles out, must have sublimily known about peruvian wine. Would not mind saw a south bank show on him trying to become president. Good job i did not try thr inca trail would have missed macchu picchu completely!!

Is the book set in Chile?

I should stick with the Chilean wine if I were you - either the sauvignon or the merlot - I'm sure the South American connection is close enough to evoke the appropriate atmosphere.

Think i will, at least its in the same continent. The novel is set in brazil so that is little help!!