Long Nights

 The long nights and cold weather here seem to be leading to an uptick in our booze consumption.  In the last couple of weeks we have bought a bottle of port, a bottle of rum, and 5 mini-bottles of whiskey.  Dave is particularly keen on trying the whiskey, and we finally found what seemed to be a proper whiskey shop near the British Museum the other day.  As we really don't know much about whiskey, we thought what better way to work out what we like than buying a few small bottles and conducting a tasting session. 

We have started with what the sales-person said was the lighter, more sherry flavoured ones, though he did give us a peaty one just so we can see if we like that as well.  He didn't really start off on a good foot, describing the whiskey he likes as having an almost antiseptic flavour.  But he got better from there and certainly seemed to know what he was talking about.  But then as we know nothing about it, he could have been telling us that the moon was made of cheese and we would have believed him.

I'm thinking we'll be tasting a few of them this afternoon seeing as how Dave has just spent 50 minutes on the phone with some idiot from Singapore Airlines trying to book tickets to Australia.  Let's just say Dave handled the off-shoring of Singapore Airlines reservations office much better than I would have done. Especially when the guy on the phone told him there were no seats available on a flight we had just looked at online, which had half the plane empty.  But he got there in the end.  So we can enjoy a week of Australian warmth in March this year.  Or at least I think we can, I'm still not convinced that the guy on the phone managed to book the correct tickets.