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Jan. 3rd, 2004 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fivemackThis is really a holiday consisting of interesting conversations, punctuated by the occasional museum, multi-player games in the evenings, visits to excellent food markets, and many magnificant meals.
Particularly to praise was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bluejo's glorious roast goose on New Year's Eve, which turned into a superb goose pie on New Year's Day, and the selection of spectacular meats and cheeses each breakfast (the best Roquefort I've ever tasted, and rilettes de canard which taste like spreadable Peking Duck).
In sites visited, the Biodome, a walk-through zoo with an impressive pool containing six-foot sturgeons and a flock of eider duck (eider à duvet in French), and some porcupines that looked nothing like my preconceptions.
In games, Res Publica (basically two-phase Happy Families played with Huns/Germans/Persians/Greeks/Romans in phase one and Art/Trade/Technology/Religion/Literature in phase two) appealed, also Credo (a trading game whose score is in Flock size, whose action cards are miracles of the early Church, and whose end result is a Creed - ours began "I believe in many gods, amongst whom is Mithras, the Unconquered Sun ...").
A great Japanese restaurant meal, six courses including the previously-believed-impossible Almost Too Much Sushi, for £20, on Friday night merely added extra icing to the cake.
Particularly to praise was
bluejo's glorious roast goose on New Year's Eve, which turned into a superb goose pie on New Year's Day, and the selection of spectacular meats and cheeses each breakfast (the best Roquefort I've ever tasted, and rilettes de canard which taste like spreadable Peking Duck). In sites visited, the Biodome, a walk-through zoo with an impressive pool containing six-foot sturgeons and a flock of eider duck (eider à duvet in French), and some porcupines that looked nothing like my preconceptions.
In games, Res Publica (basically two-phase Happy Families played with Huns/Germans/Persians/Greeks/Romans in phase one and Art/Trade/Technology/Religion/Literature in phase two) appealed, also Credo (a trading game whose score is in Flock size, whose action cards are miracles of the early Church, and whose end result is a Creed - ours began "I believe in many gods, amongst whom is Mithras, the Unconquered Sun ...").
A great Japanese restaurant meal, six courses including the previously-believed-impossible Almost Too Much Sushi, for £20, on Friday night merely added extra icing to the cake.
