taste and taste alone

let me share a unique dining experience a friend and i had whilst we visited Montreal. we walked into a foyer, with groups of people standing round ordering food. we were asked to place ALL our belongings, and coats into a locker and then choose entree, main, desert and beverage before heading any further. next we were introduced to our waitress, who warmly greeted us in a typically European two handed welcome. we exchanged in a little small talk and i was complimented on my amazing Australian accent. my friend was then asked to extend her right arm, to hold on to our waitresses right shoulder and i was asked to do the same with my friend, thus making a 3 person chain. she then lead us into the dark, literally.  you see our waitress  was taking us to our table, in a dining room completely devoid of any light.  she is visually impaired and we were entering her domain, taking our sight made us  clumsy, venerable and completely dependent on her. we made some turns, and where guided into our seats with much more ease than i expected. we were told to keep our drinks on the right of the table which was pushed against a wall. we felt around our table to find our cutlery, i reached across to find Justyna, even though i could hear her, i needed another sensory cue she was there.  for some reason i expected the room to be quite, but on the contrary it was quite noisy, which made perfect sense as our hearing was heightened, making up for the lack in sight. to add to the ambient noise of other diners there was a band somewhere to the right of me. our waitress came over with our entrees very swiftly. its hard to describe the smell i experienced when my entree of roasted eggplant and zucchinis was placed in front of me. i felt the warm, soft flesh of the vegetables with my fingers. i picked up my knife and fork and tried to cut myself food. it took me 4 or 5 attempts, but when i got it the piece was way too big for my mouth, but the taste was unlike any eggplant i have ever tried……amazing…..and as the title of this blog suggests, i like eggplant. stupidly for main i ordered steak, it was so very tasty, but so very difficult to manage into my gob. for sweets, i enjoyed chocolate cake that was warm, dense and silky…………….hands down the best meal i have ever experienced. what an amazing evening, feeling venerable, clumsy but enlightened. my eyes have been “opened”.

rights, right.

back in the days of my stationary eggplant blog, i wrote about keeping left. how when people were walking and didn’t keep left all sorts of trouble’s can occur. well now living a right handed country i have finally become used to keeping right, on the roads and the footpath (sidewalk). now im worried when i head back to the mother land ill be one of those people who frustrated me.

introducing Dorothy

so don’t tell Rita but i have a new set of wheels. her name is Dorothy , she is a 1995 Honda Accord. she is alittle rusty, got 217000 on the clock, power everything, cruse control and air conditioning………oh yea.

the best part of this car is that i bought her from an organization called the shop where people donate there old cars they can’t sell or don’t want,  and youth are taught all the skills to fix them up too sell, its a win win, sweet.

here she is when i bought her all covered in snow

Oh Spring, where art tho?

on sunday 5th April, i was wearing shorts, it was 10+ outside. birds were singing, grass was growing and ice cream was melting. monday 6th April, i was all rugged up, it was 0 outside. there was 7cm of snow cover, my volleys were soaked through and i am shoveling the driveway……..no sale.

5 by 5

so life is happening here. yep its happening. nothing much exciting,  just life. which is what i wanted i guess. its strange cause im “traveling” but im not really seeing anything or going anywhere. im just doing life. im picking up my car on tuesday….(Wednesday in Australia) which is cool, and i have another job interview on thursday (friday) but otherwise just living……that’s all…life