2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

[Jeremy McCreary]

Our kids reported bright auroras in Denver (below) and Portland on Nov 11. We lived in the Denver area 20 years and never once saw an aurora.

We were in Carlsbad and Solana Beach that evening, both overcast, but the missus says it wasn't visible here in SoCal anyway.

 

[Chargeride]

Lovely but no show in Socal, they need to put something in the name to clarify this

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Alright. Cheers. Thank you. Bye!

Say where you are without saying it

 

[Chargeride]

Polands favourite British themed cafe

The Greasky spon

I wondered how Stefan kept getting in, sussed it.

Thats Froome by the way, first cycle ride through the chunnel.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Alright. Cheers. Thank you. Bye!

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I can say with some confidence where it's NOT. To my knowledge, no one in the US eats beans for breakfast.* Come to think of it, never once even saw them offered on a breakfast menu or in a buffet.

Beans aside, that meal could easily be anywhere in the US, Canada, or UK. But not in Paris. Looked high and low for an "English breakfast" for 2 weeks there in 2019 without success.

* CORRECTION: Per @stompandgo , some New Englanders eat beans for breakfast. And people call us Californians crazy!!

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Say where you are without saying it

The missus wasn't expecting that. We've ridden our ebikes there, too.

 

[stompandgo]

I can say with some confidence where it's NOT. To my knowledge, no one in the US eats beans for breakfast. Come to think of it, never once even saw them offered on a breakfast menu or in a buffet.

Beans aside, that meal could easily be anywhere in the US, Canada, or UK. But not in Paris. Looked high and low for an "English breakfast" for 2 weeks there in 2019 without success.

From the menu of a local breakfast and lunch joint in Hyannis. It's pretty common to offer baked beans as a side for breakfast here in New England. You should come out here and try it. They're great with Tabasco.

 

[Chargeride]

Alright cheers nails it for me.
Though Stefan might be pulling a fast one.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

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From the menu of a local breakfast and lunch joint in Hyannis. It's pretty common to offer baked beans as a side for breakfast here in New England. You should come out here and try it. They're great with Tabasco.

Always knew there was something off about New England.
;^}

 

[stompandgo]

And we like it that way.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Polands favourite British themed cafe

Probably the same place and decor since Old Kent Road in South London was rebuilt after WW2 German air raids

The breakfast for £11 was as big I fought to finish the portion!

English Tea (with milk) is the best drink for the morning!

The menu.

 

[BlackHand]

Alright. Cheers. Thank you. Bye!

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Are you supposed to sop up the bean sauce with that yellow-white hockey puck?

No potatoes rules out about 90% of North America and the only correct way to have beans for breakfast is in a breakfast burrito.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

The point with the first breakfast (only £8.90 for everything) was the selection of the components of English Breakfast according to a chosen set. If you wanted the Full English, that would involve mushroom, black pudding, tomatoes and whatnot for £11. If you wanted to have everything the English Breakfast might involve including chips (French fries for Americans) and hash brown, it would be called Mega for £14 (same price as a mediocre breakfast at the nearby hotel). British "cafe" rules!

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

If you wanted to have everything the English Breakfast might involve including chips (French fries for Americans) and hash brown

Americans are all about breakfast potatoes, but French fries usually aren't on the list.

On my 2019 trip to Paris, landed at Heathrow and headed straight to the train station to catch the Eurostar through the Chunnel. (Highly recommended if you like trains!)

Had a wonderful English breakfast while I waited to board. Then spent the next 2 weeks in Paris dreaming about it. Is protein, grease, and salt for breakfast so hard for the French to understand?
;^}

 

[Chargeride]

Yes but..
A Florida diner back in the 90s, sat at the bar watching the cook flip eggs and grits?
We asked if he had baked beans and he looked at us like we had requested we throw a cauliflower on top.

Still it was so American we thought we had entered into Magnum PI.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

We were two English, a Norwegian and a Pole on our last trip to the U.S.

As we flew in London, the whole group went in an airport cafe and ordered the Full English. The oldest of us, John from Middlesbrough sighed in delight and whispered 'Home, sweet home'. I felt tears in my eyes! Realized I had been hungry for the whole week in the U.S.

 

[stompandgo]

Realized I had been hungry for the whole week in the U.S.

You did it wrong.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

You did it wrong.

Don't even get me started
Been to the U.S. for three times and always returned hungry

 

[Chargeride]

I put on 10lbs in 2 weeks at Miami

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Don't even get me started
Been to the U.S. for three times and always returned hungry

So you couldn't find enough food you were willing to eat in the US? Quite odd.