Anniversary Weekend: The square root of a gross!

I surprised my beloved with tickets to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, a fantastic play which I will discuss more in a future entry.  I was hoping to surprise her with an award winning pie from The Windmill in Mayfair but it apparently is not open weekends.  So we ended up at her favourite Mexican instead: Catina Laredo.  We weren't thinking of the Mexican connection when we planned our wedding but serendipity granted us a mariachi band who played right next to our table.

The next day we had a bus adventure to St Albans.  We did a little shopping then we went to the cathedral, which was stunning.  Because it isn't in London, all kinds of things were open to the public, like the shrine to St Alban, the first British Christian martyr… and it wasn't crowded. A guide actually insisted that we touch the 2000-year-old roman bricks. The city has history at every turn: Catuvellauni, Verulamium, Pope Adrian IV, Magna Carta, War of the Roses… whoa, I had no idea.  We made our way to the Cote Brasserie were I had my first and last French beer (what was I thinking?).  But the steak and risotto were both excellent.

More good fortune is that we live in a place that has a bank holiday on our anniversary weekend, so we get an extra day, which was a little more low key. My beloved introduced me to the local: the Horse and Groom. It was good. Very friendly, lots people and dogs, and lots of guest ales.  Unfortunately, they were all pale. I had the Red Squirrel Bitter. It wasn't too hoppy: nice, but still too clean a taste for me. Then we walked around the village a bit and eventually wandered home were we took a little nap.


Photo Credits
Poster art: anothertongue
And thats just the nave: trestle
Horse and Groom: wikipedia