Once Upon A Time In London

This is the tale of the adventures of a native Oregonian in London.

24 December 2010

Giving Thanks in Northern Ireland (Again)

Once again, I decided to spend the Thankgiving holiday with my friend, Lyn, in Northern Ireland. As you may, or may not, recall, she lives in a town a bit north of Belfast. I flew over on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, around midday. Which left us lots of time for vultching.

We headed to the Old Post Office in Lisbane. Now I now what you're thinking: Why would you hang out in a Post Office? Well, because the Old Post Office in Lisbane is a lovely old building from the 1840 which has been restored to house a tea room, gift shop, and deli. It's all very cute and cozy and popular with the locals.

Here's why:

Yep, that's lemon meringue pie. And boy was it tasty! And then there's this reason:

Chocolate cake! Lyn said it was delicious. I will have to take her word for it as she gobbled down every bite. How rude! LOL

After our tea, we headed south to have a look-see of the sea. It was too cold for the beach so I popped out of the car long enough to take a couple pictures.



There are some truly magnificent views along the coast line.



And some... interesting... artwork in Newcastle.

Then we headed back to the house both because it was getting toward time to eat and because we were freezing our collective bewtoxes off.

For dinner Lyn put together a nice roast of parsnips, carrots, potatoes, and wee little sausages. Nom! Nom!


It was quite a spread with everything one could ask for in a Thanksgiving dinner including Turkish baklava. Why not, I say!

Yummy!


There was, of course, pumpkin pie for dessert made by yours truly. Before dinner we each said the things we were Thankful for.

After dinner our friend Conor stopped by and we had a bit of a catch up, including ways to survive a zombie apocalypse. It's good to be prepared, you know.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Lyn said...

Well we do have to keep up the multi-cultural slant on Thanksgiving plus the Bakala went down a storm.

12:48 PM  
Blogger SheaLuna said...

Very true. We're all about multi-cultural. And the baklava was definitely delicious.

1:43 PM  

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