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- Whirlwind Europe trip with Ralph2006-10=092006-10-17
I had just finished an investor relations trip in Europe for Cogneto. It was fun but extremely busy – one of those non-stop business trips where days are filled with meetings and evenings with… more meetings. We stayed at an amazing hotel (especially by London’s standards) near Shepherd’s Market in Mayfair. It was a short walk to our UK office off Berkeley Square and generally close to most other fun bits of London. We walked all over, paid homage to the Apple Store, ate in Soho, rode the tube. All very British and fun.
Managed to have some great meals too! That was a shock – last time I was in the UK, good food was a scare commodity. I had my first Steak and Kidney pie which was amazing. We spent quite a bit of time hanging out at Adrian’s private club Morton’s. Very nice place to sit back for a few drinks after at day full of work.
We managed to spend a day in Paris though all I saw of the city was from the cab windows between venues. Much traveling later saw us in Dresden for the weekend.
Dresden was a surprise in many ways with it’s juxtaposition of beautiful Saxon architecture and blocky communist buildings. There were tourists everywhere in the Old City but after we moved away from the main areas we found quite a few gems including “Al Capone’s” Italian restaurant on Aleunstrabe. Overall a very nice city to hang out in, certainly one of the cheapest parts of Europe I’ve been in for good food, excellent beer, and swish accommodation.
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Posted on:October 18th, 2006underlifelines, workwith 1 comments.
Yikes! Could it be? Your dad’s favorite all time food is steak and kidney pie and you are now just discovering it? Could it be that all those years you were hiding in your room staring at a computer screen with those cursed bats flying around your shoulders, that you were missing the culinary feasts brewing in the upstairs kitchen? Say it ain’t so! Okay, maybe the pies were store bought and dragged home from “Safeway” but, they were still epicurian fare for a couple of “Highlands” ruffians.