First it is from Spain, the Barcelona region
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My favourite of seven
Pink. Pretty bottle.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Sparkling wine bubbles bellisima
First wine Pignoletto, type of grape, like letto Italian for bed.
Riosto name of the company, Champagne method.
The have a light tasting degustazione, for 25 euros.3 glasses, of different wines and bread and tagliatelle, meaning, bites of cheese, ham and salami
www.podereriosto.it
For the letto bed they have a package, same website
www.podereriosto.it
South Italian Campania sparkling wine at Olympia
Slightly peachy taste. The Pizza show is open at Olympia today and tomorrow.
You must register.
Sunday, November 24, 2024
The joys of a silver service lunch at the Cavalry & Guards Club - and the sculptures and paintings of horses
A few steps away from Hard Rock cafe is the cavalry & Guards club.
Who goes to the Cavalry & Guards Club? Members of the club. Their relatives and friends in the military, Or retired. For anniversaries, weddings.
Horse Guards & Horse Lovers
But also people connected with horses. I met an American woman who ran a horse and carriage tourism business in the USA. Her other interest was a charity for retired horses. Rescuing Horses. One of her international organizations had the event in London and she flew over especially for it.
The Last Post Sculpture
Upstairs at the club is a sculpture of a rider on his horse. The horse's head is on the ground. The rider is waving his hand in the air, signalling.
I must have passed this without noticing many times. I stood nearby, commenting on the delightful Christmas decorations, when somebody pointed out that the sculpture showed a dead horse.
Reciprocal Clubs
You can also visit the Cavalry & Guards club if you belong to another club in a city elsewhere in the world which has the Cavalry & Guards Club holding reciprocal arrangements. For example, the Tanglin club in Singapore.
Christmas Lights
Calling The Kitchen
A movable flat buzzer for service can be placed on a side table or moved onto the dining table beside the host or organizer.
'Each to his own.'
Hyde Park & Hard Rock and the Big Bus
Yesterday it rained and everybody was late for lunch near Hard Rock at Hyde Park Corner. We took the bus, number 75, from outside Baker Street underground railway station, opposite the Sherlock Holmes Museum where you see crowds of people waiting, rain or shine,
Looking back towards the station and Oxford Street, on the other side of the road is a fine art deco building with a lighthouse half way up, above the doorway.
Photo by Angela Lansbury.
Some compete for taxis in the rain. We took the bus passing Marble Arch, along Hyde Park passing the Hilton and other big hotels.
Oxford Street lights were not yet lit at lunch time but you could see what they would look like.
The statue of the horse.
Taxis and buses in the rain.
In Hyde Park I noticed the statue of the horse and a big wheel and fairground sights ready for the holidays.
Despite the chilly, blowy, rainy weather, the flowers were bright on the window boxes and railing boxes along the streets, including below the windows of Hard Rock Cafe showing tableaux of rock stars in the windows.
Red phone box, red flowers on railings of Hard Rock cafe.
With the rain, I was not surprised that I could see nobody upstairs on the open top bus tour buses.
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