A happy meal

I was looking at Not Quite Nigella's entry on Una's in Double Bay and it reminded me of one of my happiest meals, at Una's on Broadway. The thing is, the food wasn't all that good even. It was just such an unexpected meal, and soooo welcome and warm, that it makes me smile on the inside to think about it.

I say that it was unexpected primarily because we were supposed to be up in an airplane at that time, heading for Bangkok, en route to London, except that we only had lowly staff travel tickets and had spent the entire morning and afternoon waiting at the airport, before we were bumped off the last flight. Well not technically, technically they told us we could probably get to Bangkok but then would be stranded there at midnight and we decided we'd much rather spend the night at home than in some strange hotel in Bangkok, nice as it is, I'm sure.

So we went home, which was really only a little bit less strange than some random Thai hotel, because we'd pretty much just moved in. Everything was in boxes, everywhere where helpful friends and family had stacked them. The bed was made up, but we had to dig up some shampoo and spare towels, put our airplane clothes aside and find something to wear, because we had to go out and find the internet so that we could re-list ourselves on the next day's flights and book some back-up tickets via the US in case all the flights were full again.

So that's how we found ourselves in Broadway, which is where my office is (and I managed to get in a last minute report too, woohoo), and then at Una's, which was warm brown and cosy, an absolute treat because it was shit cold and freezing out, and because we were tired to our bones.

And we had rosti and schnitzel and sauerkraut and ginger beer, and we ate and stuffed ourselves and giggled and it was so good because we were warm and full and relaxed and could go home and sleep in our bed. The next day, we got on a plane to London, via Tokyo instead, on the longest most tortuous journey Ever. But that is another story, a long and tortuous one that I don't think anyone really wants to hear about and also Bear says I should go to bed soon.

Goodnight!