Talking To A Talking Cactus

I had a great day on Saturday doing an impromptu pub crawl around Leeds with Wolfie and Patter. This was never our intention but Patter texted me on Thursday expressing his desperation for a pub lunch and so we found ourselves in O'Neill's on Saturday sampling some sausages and colcannon mash - which is something I have wanted to try for a while. The herby onion goodness of the potato was particuarly pleasing. Patter ordered the Irish Coddle and the waiter gave him mine accidentally. As we were waiting for the Coddle, Patter was waxing lyrical about my dish in front of him. Felt kinda bad taking it away from him. His had floating carrots in it but appearently it was quite nice. The traditional Irish sausages and BBQ sauce (doubt that was Irish) was a nice way to start the meal too.

As is often the case with me, one drink leads to another and we sampled four third pints of Ireland's brews - Guinness, Guinness Red, Smithwick's and Caffreys. The latter was a little fizzy for my tastes with stout but Smithwick's, Ireland's oldest brewed drink, was nice and smooth. Guinness Red was smoother than its Guinness counterpart and the clover in the head made for a nice touch. We also saw some Irish flags hanging up and questioned what they were (it turns out they were the flags of the four Irish provinces of Ulster, Connacht, Munster and Leinster). We were also tempted to hang around in one of the main squares in Leeds and watch the Red Bull motorcycle display team perform but we opted for drinking instead. And then we forgot.

After this, we went to the Town Hall Tavern, a real ale pub I have wanted to try for so long. There, Patter showed me a delightful bus timetable app on his mobile deeley and we sat in the quiet pub chatting and relaxing. In fact, we didn't realise it was getting so late we were having such a good time. A quick trip to Mr Foley's and North Bar later - my two favourite continental beer places - and we had to call an end to proceedings around 9.30pm as I needed to be at work for 6am. Still, a great day was had by all I am sure :-)

Talking To A Talking Cactus

I had a great day on Saturday doing an impromptu pub crawl around Leeds with Wolfie and Patter. This was never our intention but Patter texted me on Thursday expressing his desperation for a pub lunch and so we found ourselves in O'Neill's on Saturday sampling some sausages and colcannon mash - which is something I have wanted to try for a while. The herby onion goodness of the potato was particuarly pleasing. Patter ordered the Irish Coddle and the waiter gave him mine accidentally. As we were waiting for the Coddle, Patter was waxing lyrical about my dish in front of him. Felt kinda bad taking it away from him. His had floating carrots in it but appearently it was quite nice. The traditional Irish sausages and BBQ sauce (doubt that was Irish) was a nice way to start the meal too.

As is often the case with me, one drink leads to another and we sampled four third pints of Ireland's brews - Guinness, Guinness Red, Smithwick's and Caffreys. The latter was a little fizzy for my tastes with stout but Smithwick's, Ireland's oldest brewed drink, was nice and smooth. Guinness Red was smoother than its Guinness counterpart and the clover in the head made for a nice touch. We also saw some Irish flags hanging up and questioned what they were (it turns out they were the flags of the four Irish provinces of Ulster, Connacht, Munster and Leinster). We were also tempted to hang around in one of the main squares in Leeds and watch the Red Bull motorcycle display team perform but we opted for drinking instead. And then we forgot.

After this, we went to the Town Hall Tavern, a real ale pub I have wanted to try for so long. There, Patter showed me a delightful bus timetable app on his mobile deeley and we sat in the quiet pub chatting and relaxing. In fact, we didn't realise it was getting so late we were having such a good time. A quick trip to Mr Foley's and North Bar later - my two favourite continental beer places - and we had to call an end to proceedings around 9.30pm as I needed to be at work for 6am. Still, a great day was had by all I am sure :-)