We popped by a "chippy" - classic fish & chips shop - for a snack. I had chips (thick-cut fries) with curry dipping sauce and they were deliciously plump and greasy and the sweet spicy kick of the curry was good enough to lick from the little styrofoam bowl! A few of us got fish and it's not a filet like you'd see on a whimpy sandwich at McDonald's - three times the size of the fish from a Catholic fish fry - you can tell that it was a proper swimming fish, simply battered and fried. "Chippys" can be found every few blocks all over England and are the perfect drunk or comfort food for Brits - perfect with HP sauce or "mushy peas." Less than an hour later we stopped for ice cream at a little shop that had "bits" of goodies on top of each flavor - pistachios on the pistachio, cookies on the cookies 'n cream, strawberries on the strawberry - lovely! And of course ice cream in England is always served with a Flake! A flaky little stick of chocolate - a nice, tasty little touch. And we walked past a salon that had fish pedicures - and we decided we must have one before the week ended! (More to come on that...)
After our jaunt around the town, we drove home and finally took a nap! Bless. How nice... That night it was just "the families" - we had take and bake pizza - goat's cheese, sweet corn and tomato (Andi's fav) and ham, spicy beef, mushrooms & garlic sauce (Alan's fav) and had quite the discussion about religion and life... then we called a cab and sent the parents home - haha!
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| Southport. Left to right: Mr. Bailey, Mrs. Bailey, Vicki, Jenna, Rick, me, Stevie |
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