Bochum

A few days in Germany - in the delightfully dull City of Bochum.

Here is the view from my hotel room (photo stitched together from sketchy Blackberry photos)

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The ongoing search for Good Steak took me to 'Steakhaus El Toro' - who's Argentinian steaks didn't disappoint.

(despite the seats being covered in hairy cow hides)

Ameritard

You will notice that I tend not to post about being away from home until I come back. At least you may have done.

The week before last I had been been over to the USA, first in New York and then Chicago. In each case accompanied by the project manager from The Customer.

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Reykjavik

It's been a long while since I've had a chance to sit down and

write anything. I have spend a few weeks working in Bracknell and this week I have been in Iceland.

This terrible URL (to be fixed) http://tinyurl.com/34dlop will take you to an annotated Google map (with extra bits to be added) that shows the highlights of my visit.

Places that I ate :

• Silfur http://www.silfur.is/ has a more 'fusion' menu than their site suggests. Their signature chocolate dessert and anything that has Wassabi ice-cream is a good pick.
• Hereford Steakhouse http://www.hereford.is/ is a generic steakhouse, not quite good enough to feature on my 'all time' best steak list but perfectly alright. Their fish soup starter was good, but the tentacles lurking at the bottom were a little off-putting (despite being very nice).
• Salt
• ...more to follow.

As I'm writing this I realise that I am starting to think in the idiot English that I have found myself speaking all week - despite the fact that most of Iceland seems to speak better English than most of England. Go figure.

p.s. Sorry about the mis-spelling of Reykjavik, I've had character set issues with the RSS feeds and this was the easiest thing to 'fix'.

Steak

Sometimes I eat steak - occasionaly I have some that is so nice that I add it to my list (it's in my head, don't worry) of "The Best Steak on the Planet".

1. A steakhouse below/near one of the SAS Radisson hotels in Oslo - although I can't seem to find out anything about it online.

2. Old San Francisco Steak House, Houston. (USA)

I think that my opinion may have been swayed by the pretty girls on swings. A bit of research online suggests that the place has now been knocked-down and replaced with a mall.

3. Sofitel Airport Hotel, Brussels.

Good - and it's still there and hasn't been demolished (at least, since two days ago)

Also very nice lamb.

(and now the list isn't just in my head)