Things I Lost On My UK Trip

• My Brookstone NAP Travel Pillow which was square.  It’s not even on their website anymore.  I had to buy one of the neck ones to replace it.
• My palm stylus.
• My brand new earphones I bought for the trip after Pugly chewed up the last ones.
• My umbrella, which I replaced with a mini-umbrella of the UK flag.
• Two pounds — kid you not.

tags: UK, vacation, Brookstone

4 comments

1. on July 13, 2006 at 1:22 pm

   Tamara said:

   Wow, I lost a few pounds on my vacation over the fourth, too.

   The rest, well at least it was all small, relatively cheap stuff. Traveling is a black hole in many regards.

2. on July 13, 2006 at 1:54 pm

   n. mallory said:

   I actually miss the food in the UK. Even the selections in the convenience stores were healthier.

   Now, mind you, I don’t eat sausage or pork, but I did try to eat something different that I hadn’t tried before at each meal, and specifically something I couldn’t get over here. So, there were a couple of fattening foods, but often I had vegetarian choices even if they were on bread.

   I was feeling rather queasy just looking at our food when I went to try to find lunch yesterday after returning to work.

3. on July 13, 2006 at 1:57 pm

   Tamara said:

   Heh, you don’t often hear people say they miss UK food! But it sounds like there were fun things to try.

   Food is a chore for me lately. I think it’s the heat. I’d rather not be bothered, but then I get hungry, and it’s such a drag!

4. on July 13, 2006 at 2:26 pm

   n. mallory said:

   You know, I think the UK is making a real effort to be more health-conscious these days from what I could tell from watching the news; moreso than when my parents were there 15 years ago. I know they talked about how awful the food was when they went but I really didn’t find that the case, but then I also had PW to kind of warn me of scary things and when things had sausage or pork or other questionable things.

   What I found odd was that when you ordered something decidedly of a Mexican/TexMex/Spanish flavor, it almost always came out with Mozarella instead of Cheddar however.

   Cheese is very big over there apparently. It’s on a lot of sandwhiches and appetizers.

   I also found it strange that there was so much American fast food (KFC, McDs, BK, Subway, Pizza Hut, etc.) over there — and that PW made me go to KFC once (and I won’t eat there here!) and I had a chicken breast smaller than a chicken thigh!

   Also, it was very difficult convincing the locals that I wanted to go to local-type places rather than American-chain restaurants like TGI Fridays — which we did once as well with “the families,” which is a future post.

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