Uneventful Walks - 1

Our first stop was Semaphore, at lunch time. We parked in the main street outside the old Semaphore Hotel. The doors were open but we didn't go inside. We walked a few metres up the road to the Federal Hotel, which had a bottle shop. We went inside and headed for the fridge. The glass front was covered in condensation and we had to wipe it off to see inside. We bought a bottle of wine for later on, and left it in the car.

Now we were looking for the right kind of lunch.

We passed Cafe Froot, the Whipped Bake Bar, Swedish Tarts, Red Ass Curry, Red Rock Noodle Bar, Swish Sushi, Phore Seasons and the Corner Store Providore. People were sitting outside in the shade or in the sun, eating. They had already decided what to have. We hadn't.

Everything seemed heavy and expensive. We do not like to have a heavy and expensive lunch. We always end up in a bakery and one of us buys a meat pie. The other one buys whatever looks least like a meat pie, which today was a quiche.

We walked out of the bakery, with our food. All the tables were occupied. We crossed the road to the wide grassy median strip and chose a seat facing west towards the monument, the funfair and the sea.

We ate our bakery items out of brown paper bags, commenting occasionally on the chunks of meat in the pie, and the ambiguous nature of 'pepper'.

Two portly ladies and an old man crossed the road from the other side with their shopping bags and sat down opposite us. The ladies lit cigarettes.

Quickly swallowing the remains of our lunch and our Farmers Union Iced Coffee, we crossed the road to Foodland, where we bought grapes and apples and Shimmering Sea Shower Gel which was shiny and blue.

Then we walked back to our car and got in, and that was the end of our first walk.