Mexican food...

commodorified and fairestcat pointed out this restaurant webpage to me. The restaurant is in Christchurch, NZ.

The real artist...

The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the goal.

While he is perhaps being admired by others, he mourns the fact that he has not yet reached the point to which his better genius, like a distant sun, ever beckons to him. - Beethoven

Adventure in Canada...

I tend to like the Lonely Planet publications. Came across this just now: Top 10 Canadian adventures.

Are they kidding?

I mean, I know we may look like a nation of wimps, but watching garter snakes? Pillow fights? Is that what someone thinks is the Canadian idea of excitement?

I see Whistler is mentioned twice - perhaps the Whistler Tourist Board is behind this?

Okay, I'd like to walk 21,000km, even in Canada. That would be sublime. I saw the polar bears in Churchill on TV (narrated by Ewan McGregor), and that was enough. But whale-watching? I've always wanted to, partly because it involves going out in boats.

Surprising books...

30 Day Book Meme: – Day 10 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving

I wonder if I could make all thirty answers, The Game of Kings.

Because that was the case. I picked it at random from the library shelves when I was fifteen,knowing only that it was historical fiction - my favourite genre. After a page or two - "I am an narwhal looking for my virgin" - I thought, "This book is really strange. I've never read this sort of style before."

The the pig got drunk and I fell in love with Lymond, and that was that.

There are other books I've thought I might dislike, and didn't; but they are hugely outnumbered by books I thought I would enjoy, and didn't.