Scott - again

Today has been yet another day were we have been reminded of Scott and his men. Scott did manage to get to the south pole, but it was on his way back the problems started. After they had collected 17 kg of stone samples in the mountainside of a mountain lying far of their originally planned track, one of his men started to get problems. Just small problems like loosing his fingernails and so on, due to the cold, but the result was anyhow that he started delaying the party. I guess many of us would have started thinking about leaving some of the stones behind at this point. Not so with Scott. Rather, he considered it quite obvious that any man delaying the party should behave as a man. And, so Scotts man did. The poor delaying man, one evening in the tent, told the others:"I am going out, I might be a while." And never came back.

Now you might wonder what our analogy is. Well, as the observant reader might remember, Davinders knee is starting to fall apart. As a consequence, he is delaying the party. Now, even though I have told him the story about Scott up to several times, he still seem to expect us to wait for him. So, today we did not get very far. A lady in a B&B that was normally closed for the season, kindly let us in when she heard about Davinders knee. It turned out to be a very nice place. Another lady we met provided Davinder with special anti inflammatory medicin. So, hopefully his knee will get better through a combination of the two ladies services.

Yesterday, the new years party was quite nice. I asked for an explanation of the name of the pub "Twice brewed". The waitress didn't seem very impressed by my question. I was actually just told to go to the entrance, where she said an explanation could be found. The explanation started by saying that the question I had just asked was the most asked question in the pub, i.e. the most boring question that was being asked. All in all I got the impression that they where just politely giving an answer to the question, but they were really tired of people asking the same question over and over again, and were considering changing the name because of it. To make a short story even shorter, the word "brew" can also mean "hill". So, the name of the pub, "Twice brewed" indicates the pub is lying between two hills. They didn't say anything about the pub "Once brewed", but I guess it must by lying in or on a hill somewhere. Finally, they finished by saying that if anybody had a better explanation, indicating that the people asking for the explanation of the pub name were normally pedantic and quarrelsome, they could send it to some obscure email address.

Ironically, the name of the B&B where we are staying now is called "Hill on the wall", but I will keep my mouth shut and not suggest they change their name to "Brewed on the wall." or anything along that line.

Facts:
breakfast:excellent
lunch:average
weather:in our favour
distance walked:14 km
time used:4h 30m