Thursday 20th October
For our last excursion in Brookfield, we went to the Salem Cross Inn, minutes up the 9 highway and to an enormous restaurant overlooking a valley of cow fields and forest. Jim and Carole had tipped us off to going to the downstairs bar which was best as the rest of the place was empty and echoing.
We almost immediately got talking to the couple next to us at the bar and once the barman had kindly turned down the TV at my request I was able to hear them and join in an interesting and highly charged ( from Laura) conversation mainly about their current political mess. Laura was very fired up about how no woman likes Clinton, but none can say why and that everyone can see what Trump is, but the choice between the two is slim. Almost all the people we have talked to are horrified that these two candidates are the only ones they have. Along the way we talked about how we find the fact that there are gun shops everywhere frighteningly casual (being English and sheltered from such 'privileges?') and Laura told us that the belief in being allowed guns goes way back to Americans having them to protect themselves against the government! And modern Americans still have that belief. This was news to us and shocking. I cannot believe you can convince yourself that you are buying a gun merely for protection against any human being. What an interesting evening. The barman joined in, as did two other couples on a safer subject of where to go and where to eat in Boston.
A stimulating night to finish our time at the log cabin.
For our last excursion in Brookfield, we went to the Salem Cross Inn, minutes up the 9 highway and to an enormous restaurant overlooking a valley of cow fields and forest. Jim and Carole had tipped us off to going to the downstairs bar which was best as the rest of the place was empty and echoing.
We almost immediately got talking to the couple next to us at the bar and once the barman had kindly turned down the TV at my request I was able to hear them and join in an interesting and highly charged ( from Laura) conversation mainly about their current political mess. Laura was very fired up about how no woman likes Clinton, but none can say why and that everyone can see what Trump is, but the choice between the two is slim. Almost all the people we have talked to are horrified that these two candidates are the only ones they have. Along the way we talked about how we find the fact that there are gun shops everywhere frighteningly casual (being English and sheltered from such 'privileges?') and Laura told us that the belief in being allowed guns goes way back to Americans having them to protect themselves against the government! And modern Americans still have that belief. This was news to us and shocking. I cannot believe you can convince yourself that you are buying a gun merely for protection against any human being. What an interesting evening. The barman joined in, as did two other couples on a safer subject of where to go and where to eat in Boston.
A stimulating night to finish our time at the log cabin.
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