Just a moment away from tales of our journey, and tales of my knitting on board, to share some great things I found online in the past couple of days.
Prince Charles trying his hand at tapestry at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in Melbourne. Really! It’s not that scary! Actually, I’m sure he’s hamming it up for the press. He is a wonderful supporter of the wool industry.
And this lovely image of a woman knitting….
Some highlights from the past week are all about food! What better balm is there for terribly dreary weather? We stayed on the docks in Savannah for a couple of nights and treated ourselves to some of the high spots of Savannah.
I discovered the Tea Room almost 20 years ago and have visited it each of the rare times I’ve been in Savannah since then. In fact, I’ve been mail ordering their “Emperor’s Bride” loose tea for all those years. This year I had “Red Fruits” black tea, and it is my new favorite. As you can see, there is a lot to choose from.
The store and the dining room is done with an “Arts and Crafts” theme that is really lovely! I could live here…..
On another day, our friends from Brilliant recommended we all have lunch together at Mrs. Wilkes’ Dining Room. What an experience! You line up on the street with about a thousand other hungry people, and you are admitted to the dining room a table’s worth at a time. Most of the tables seat between 6 and 12 people, so you are seated with others when a table becomes available. You don’t order food; there is no printed menu. Food just arrives at the table in large serving dishes, and you help yourself to what appeals to you. I have never seen so much food on a table! It’s more than Thanksgiving! I think some of these dishes must always be on the menu: fried chicken, black eyed peas, Brunswick stew, barbecued pork, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, rutabaga, squash, green beans, candied sweet potatoes…..I’m sure I’m forgetting at least a dozen other dishes. It was amazing. The only thing you have a choice on is your drink, which can be sweetened or unsweetened iced tea, or water!
This is the little alley-way that leads into the dining room. When we arrived at 12 noon the line was already down the street.
And here’s a shot of the table!
Oh yeah….just looking at this photo shows several dishes I forgot to mention! Baked bean, cornbread, biscuits….. it was amazing!
I’m not going to mention the three days it took us to get to St. Marys, Georgia. The weather has just been so dreary that it’s best not to talk about it….best for me to just put it behind me. I will say I had another day with some rather severe homesickness….
St. Marys (and it is not St. Mary’s) is just over the border from Fernandina Beach, Florida. I mean literally. I think the two towns would be connected if not for the border. Well, maybe that is a slight exaggeration. They do share the same harbor entrance that splits before you reach either town. And that means that moments after we leave here we will be in Florida. Wow!
In the meantime, we intend to have a marvelous few days here, and it’s going quite well at the moment since today I awoke to sunny skies for the first time in about two weeks! Every night leading up to Thanksgiving there is some kind of evening get together for sailors in this town, or morning coffee and treats at one of the local shops. They have a tradition here of taking good care of sailors for Thanksgiving! I don’t know how they do it, but each year they serve Thanksgiving dinner to about 200 sailors. “They” supply the turkeys and the sailors supply all the side dishes and desserts.
I’m off to shop for my contribution so I can bake tomorrow.
….Oh! And last night I wore my Ann Jacket for the first time….sans sleeves, but still, I wore it!
