Birthday Treats

Birthday treats are great, the wife sprang a little surprise. Indy kids farmed out to our good friends Neil & Lisa while we eloped to Edinburgh and The Roxburghe Hotel situated on south Charlotte Square at the end of George Street. it doesn't get any more central than this if your desire is to explore the delights of the capital city. Spent a couple of hours doing the compulsory shopping before homing in on the La Tasca spanish tapas restaurant for some exquisite chorizo frito al vino, patatas bravas con ensalada de la casa on the side, awesome scoff washed down with a fine bottle of Faustino V Rioja Reserva 2005, Silky smooth Rioja with crushed red fruits elegantly mingling with vanilla and creamy spice, that's what is says on the bottle anyway but my warped pallet failed to pick up the vanilla. The good lady declined the "Postre" but having a sweet tooth myself, the Tarta de Naranja y Nuez hit the right note. Fine cuisine indeed, with some reminiscing about our times in Mexico City & Acapulco, those cliff divers have balls of stone believe me, the only option left was the compulsory Siesta.