HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-09-06, Page 46PAO* GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1973
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Travelling is tiring. It's
eleven o'clock in the morning, a
perfect day .with temperature in
the 80's, and any 'self-
respecting tourist should be out
stomping around looking at a
castle or something.
But my wife is on the bed
having a snooze, and I myself
am almost relieved that 1 have
a column and don't
get out there and
to write
have to
tnomp.
About' tromping. If you're
going to do Britain, bring along
your oldest, most comfortable
pair of shoes. That noise you
hear in the background is the
barking of thousands of
tourists' dogs as the furriners
wearily climb yet another flight
of stone steps.
We're in the middle of a heat
wave here in Chester. Back
home it would be just pleasant
beach weather, but the Brits,
- who suffer stoically through the
normal rigours of their windy,
rainy isle, can't take the heat:
This morning's newspaper
reports that millions are fleeing
to the beaches, that resort
hotels are jammed, that the
,F,sale of deodorants is booming,
and that it is expected there
Will be ten million cars on the
roads' this weekend. Thank
goodness we're not touririg by
car.
Highways are completely
ihadequate for the volunie of
traffic. The cars are piled up in
hundreds, about twenty feet
apart, and when something
-happens, there are usually four
of five cars involved.
An Englishman on the train
told me that "The trouble with
England is that we neer do
anything until our backs -are to
the wall." He was commenting
on those same highways, which -
were built for, the traffic of
twenty years ago, with no
thought bf the future. -
Well, that's the way they've
gone into every war, twenty
years ` behind the times, but
they've managed to muddle
through, so far. •
Speaking o1' wars, it is ,driven
h:irrte:to the, tourist; through in-
. numerable plaques in castles
and., cathedrals and other
public places, what a tremen-
s .toll
remen-s.toll British blood was
taken-- in the fwo great wars.
One plaque in the Castle in
Edinburgh reveals that one
Scottish ` regiment lost nearly
700 'officers and almost 8,00()
other ranks in Wcrld War I.
Edinburgh Ca: tle is a
fascinating place. ly friend
Dick Whittington, a history
buff, whould go right out of his
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mind and would have to be
dragged away by the con-
stabulary when he saw the
magnificent displays of ancient
and honorable uniforms, coats
of arms, weapons and such.
But I think he might turn
purple with outrage had he
seen us eating Chinese food up
there on the great brooding
Castle Rock. Even I had .an
uneasy feeling that- Witham
Wallace and Robert the Bruce
would berollingin their graves
as I chOmped my chow mein on
the massive rock where heroic
deeds were 'done and the course
of history changed.
Chinese restaurants are com-
mon here, but I don't think
their food is as good as that in
Canada, on the whole. I detest
the stuff, but my wife loves it,
so I wind up hacking at an egg
roll when I'd rather be getting
into some Dover sole.
Food prices here are a little
lower than oat home, but not
much. There are thousands of
tatty little restaurants,
something like our "greasy
Is
spoons". Poor food badly
cooked, litter everywhere, and
sloppy service.
At the other end of the stick
are the classy joints: excellent
food beautifully cooked, elegant
-surroundings and four waiters
hovering. But you'd better be
well fixed with travellers'
cheques if you wander into one
of them.
There's not too much in bet-
ween, though most hotels, even
small ones, serve a decent din-
ner for.about four dollars. Bars
have sandwiches, and the good
pubs have hot and cold. lun-
ches. -
Something. that irritates me
no end is the coffee, racket. '
You are served an enormous
three -course dinner, so lavish
you can eat only half of it.
Then the robbers want eleven
or twelve pence for a cup of cof-
fee. Even though I'm dying for
coffee, and the meal itself was
reasonable in prg•e, that bit of
Scottish blood in me makes me
refuse to pay about thirty cents
for a cup of the worst coffee in
the world.
That's about the only thing
that annoys me, and it's
childish on my part. Generally(
the English and Scots we've
come in contact with are the
soul of courtesy and frien-
.dliness. We've not had a single
unpleasant incident, though 1
must admit that the natives
have a penchant for doing most
things backwards.
Example. In 'London, I
hooked a room in an Edin-
burgh hotel. I paid the agent
the full price for two nights in
the hotel.' The hotel turned
out to be the worst one north of
the Tweed, but that's another
story. O.K. Checking out of the
Edinburgh hotel, I asked for a
receipt. They wouldn't give me
one.
"But I've paid for the room",
I expostulated. "Na, na, sort,
we canna gie ye a rrreceipt
because ye havena' gien us any
monny. 'We hae only the
voucher." I protested vehemet'
tly bu,t came up against that in-
domitable
Scottish spirit that
has held the thin red "line so
many times, and had to retreat
in disarray. Up the : Scots!
Meanwhile, it's time for a
half of bitter and a crack at
Chester's Roman wall.
Haven't walked it for thirty
years.
Catherine Hunt
leaves Karon
County this month
After three , and one-half
years as county home
econcanist jn ,Huron, Catherine
Hunt is leaving the post, effec-
tive August 31. .
Miss Hunt graduated from
the University of Guelph in
1968 and then went to the
University of Western Ontario
for - further studies in -home
economics.
She taught foods and
nutrition at Central Huron
Secondary School in Clinton
before taking the -post with -the
Department of Agriculture and
Foods.
Miss Hunt said she has "en-
joyed immensely" her work in
Huron, but she is also looking
forward to her new life.
She is getting married in Sep-
tember and is moving. to
Kingsville where her husband
is assistant agricultural
representative. ' She will also
work part-time with the Depar-
tment of Agriculture in that.
a rea.
.No successor has been an-
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