Beans, Beans, Beans

We had breakfast in the hotel. It was a semi-authentic English breakfast. They had poached eggs, boiled eggs, black pudding, all sorts of sausages and pressed meats, smoked salmon, and baked beans. Now this whole idea of baked beans for breakfast sounds weird, but I really like it. They are just like van de camps pork and beans, but without the pork. On Tuesday we went to a really big hospital in Leeds. They were so nice to us and had arranged a bunch of people for us to talk to. They provided this huge lunch spread with all sorts of local foods, and we got a nice tour of the hospital. The original part, which is now offices, was really old and neat looking. Kinda scary and ominous but neat. Leeds was a really cool looking city, at the end of the day we returned to Manchester and stayed in another Bewleys Hotel.

My driving is definitely improving, but our ability to use the sat nav has not. I might, just might, be better at driving here than at home. I think it is because I can’t stay in my lane in the US and here I have an excuse! Everyone we meet seems very impressed that I’m driving here. One big problem I have here is that people park their cars everywhere. It doesn’t matter where, and it makes some roads impassable. The motorways (highways) are really nice and they have great signage for the exits. People speed like crazy, and it took me forever to realize that the fast lane is the far right. They do not however have enough speed limit signs. When you get on any road it is very hard to tell what the speed limit is. I read that the Audi had a speed warning on it, and I had wondered what it was and why it had not gone off yet. So we conducted a little experiment and it went off at 105. Oh… and I always thought they used the metric system here, but apparently they do for everything but the speed.