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Digitalia

Digital Abstracts

By Steve Wilde

Going Dutch
November 08, 2009

I only had one book left to read today and it's only just over 100 pages long. I'm not going to have anything to read for the last day or the journey home.

David Batchelor's Chromophobia is an unusual take on colour theory, with references to the Wizard Of Oz, Huysman's Against Nature, Pleasantville, Huxley, Pop and Minimalist art amongst others. And as I suspected... not long enough.

I manage to squeeze in Chelsea v Man Utd today as well, back at Taylor's Bar. It's the first day we have had without any cloud cover at all and it must be 30 degrees.

Tonight we head back to La Costa for more tapas and Spanish guitars. As well as being very talented these guys are very funny, stoppping to mimic calling their agant when doing any obvious crowd pleasers. The guy running the place interrupts them the moment they get too cheesy too, running up with trays of shots to distract them and even joining in on the spoons. the little verandah is packed and its a great atmosphere.

The flambeed prawns get torched in front of us again with little room to spare as the flame whooshes up a couple of feet! Then we have chicken skewers, Costa style [not sure what that meant!], bread and alioli, a three chees plate, chorizo, Serrano and olives.

But this time I ask for a dish I saw a couple [who are at the next table to us tonight] of other Dutch people having for lunch on our previous visit. I have no ide what its called but they soon work it out and the couple cheer when they see I'm having an "off menu" traditional Dutch dish. Turns out these little meatballs are called Bitterballen. They come with either mayo or curry sauce, so I opt for the curry sauce and they are fantastic. I think I shared one but the rest were all mine! After some crazy shots on the house we stagger off in search of a cab.

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