In a message dated 4/9/2006 2:13:18 PM Central Standard Time, maryalice@frontiernet.net writes: Again on meals he says: "Lunch and dinner - I was going to actually > mention this when we would be returning to Wales from the airport. Having > been to America many times I am aware that there are different rules and > situations that apply. Being a country area many of the restaurants only > open during lunchtimes and then close at 2.00pm then open at say 7.00pm. > At dinner people tend to only eat after 7.00pm to 10.00pm. ( If you eat in > Since you mention food, let me comment on that! On my first trip over there, they nearly drove me up a wall trying to adapt to their times for eating. As he says above, the pubs and restaurants close after lunch and do not reopen until 7:00 PM, so if you are busy and miss the lunch time slot, you are going to be starved before you can get something after 7:00. If they take a dinner group out to one of the better country restaurants, they will pick you up at 7:00 PM. You arrive at the restaurant and don't order until 8 or 8:30. Then the meals are served in courses. So you may start #1 about 9, #2 about 10, #3 at 11, and then about 11:45 everyone is in alarm because you have to order drinks quickly because it is illegal for them to sell drinks after midnight. So they all order a bunch of drinks and then become soused and you don't get back to the hotel until 3 or 4. You are too sleepy to make breakfast, and it starts all over again and you better not miss lunch!! The good restaurants have excellent food. The pubs and others are up for grabs. They don't have "bad" food, it is just "different" than we are used to in USA, and sometimes you just can't eat it, but you don't want to upset the host, so you let it pass. They cook a lot, with no seasonings. "Fish and Chips" are the mainstay, but they are just deep fried fish and potato chunks, with no seasoning. I had been up north for about a week, and was back in London, and I thought I had found heaven, when I ran across a McDonald's there near Macy's. I actually took a big bag of burgers with me for a bus trip the next day to Stonehenge and Winchester. The best way to get by is on the first day there, go to a grocery store and buy you a "stash" to keep in your room. Carry a couple of granola bars in your pocket. And watchout for Sundays. Everything is closed, all day! They stay up late on Saturday night, and then sleep late on Sunday AM, so there is no need for breakfast restaurants. The few hardy church goers eat at home. Cuz Gary

On Gary's note and also something Mayor Phillip expressed they do have sandwiches snacks etc at the little grocery next to Ashgrove.. food for thought! As to the other times... sounds like Mayor Phillip has us set up to eat the lunch and dinner meals, if you read his quips I put in the other e-mails. But he has made a big deal about knowing we eat in restaurants earlier than they do, in fact on the phone he said, "In Caerwys if your going to eat out, then you go at 7:00 to eat or 8:00 to eat...or you eat at home and the normal home meal is between 5-6. ... So it is the restaurants... and also said that was so people who come from work can clean up before going to eat. He says we have a habit of going straight from place to place and not going home and then to a restaurant. He said they always go home for a bit and clean up/shower change clothes etc before leaving for the restaurant. On Friday, we are going to the Archives in the morning 8:30 ish, then we will go to Mold for the Reception at 1:00, which will have "refreshments" so we wont need lunch he says.. [so does that mean it is a meal?], then we are going to do something on the way back to Caerwys, then we will have a rest break to change clothes do what ever, then we will meet up around 5:30 to eat, he has had the restaurant open and ready for a private sitting for us to eat as they don't usually open till 7 pm. Then we leave and go to the Concert in Mold which starts at 7:30 [I think]. Hugs Cuz B ttg-inc@comcast.net http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ttg13/ "Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we are here we might as well dance !" ----- Original Message ----- From: <Glhughes59@aol.com> To: <WYNNE-GENEALOGY-SOCIETY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 10:06 PM Subject: Re: [WGS] Wales - Mayor Phillip and touring, breakfast, exchanging money, etc. > > In a message dated 4/9/2006 2:13:18 PM Central Standard Time, > maryalice@frontiernet.net writes: > > Again on meals he says: "Lunch and dinner - I was going to actually >> mention this when we would be returning to Wales from the airport. >> Having >> been to America many times I am aware that there are different rules >> and >> situations that apply. Being a country area many of the restaurants >> only >> open during lunchtimes and then close at 2.00pm then open at say >> 7.00pm. >> At dinner people tend to only eat after 7.00pm to 10.00pm. ( If you eat >> in >> > > > Since you mention food, let me comment on that! > > On my first trip over there, they nearly drove me up a wall trying to > adapt > to their times for eating. As he says above, the pubs and restaurants > close > after lunch and do not reopen until 7:00 PM, so if you are busy and miss > the > lunch time slot, you are going to be starved before you can get something > after > 7:00. > > If they take a dinner group out to one of the better country restaurants, > they will pick you up at 7:00 PM. You arrive at the restaurant and don't > order > until 8 or 8:30. Then the meals are served in courses. So you may > start #1 > about 9, #2 about 10, #3 at 11, and then about 11:45 everyone is in > alarm > because you have to order drinks quickly because it is illegal for them > to sell > drinks after midnight. So they all order a bunch of drinks and then > become > soused and you don't get back to the hotel until 3 or 4. You are too > sleepy > to make breakfast, and it starts all over again and you better not miss > lunch!! > > The good restaurants have excellent food. The pubs and others are up > for > grabs. They don't have "bad" food, it is just "different" than we are > used > to in USA, and sometimes you just can't eat it, but you don't want to > upset > the host, so you let it pass. They cook a lot, with no seasonings. > "Fish > and Chips" are the mainstay, but they are just deep fried fish and > potato > chunks, with no seasoning. I had been up north for about a week, and > was back in > London, and I thought I had found heaven, when I ran across a McDonald's > there near Macy's. I actually took a big bag of burgers with me for a > bus > trip the next day to Stonehenge and Winchester. > > The best way to get by is on the first day there, go to a grocery store > and > buy you a "stash" to keep in your room. Carry a couple of granola > bars in > your pocket. > > And watchout for Sundays. Everything is closed, all day! They stay up > late > on Saturday night, and then sleep late on Sunday AM, so there is no need > for > breakfast restaurants. The few hardy church goers eat at home. > > Cuz Gary > > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >