Sometimes the best little adventures are the unplanned ones.
Yesterday we ordered food, and it was delivered… to the wrong place — 20 kilometers away from us. It’s a new delivery service we tried out of curiosity, and surprise! The food went on its own journey. We had to wait a bit longer, but eventually, we did get it.
After finally eating, we decided to take a short drive — to the exact place where our food had been delivered: Beļavas muiža (Beļava Manor). Our own home also has “muiža” (manor) in its name, which would loosely translate to Chestnutmanor, so maybe that confused the system. Still, it gave us a reason to go on a small adventure.
It was raining, the air smelled fresh, the road was quiet, and everything looked extra green and alive. We visited Beļava Manor and went for a longer walk and made a quick stop at a small local shop for ice cream. The drive back was peaceful — we felt refreshed… and a little hungry again.
What the kids didn’t know was that, when we ordered our meal earlier, we also snuck in a sushi order. So we ended our unexpected day with a sushi celebration.
Rain, fresh air, and sushi. That’s balance, right?
Ilze
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I would have been quite happy with just the saldējums 😊
Rūjienas saldējums or other favorite 🙂
One of my other favourite Latvian foods was Pīrāgi (I don’t eat meat anymore) my mum made them at home. Rūjienas I don’t know this word.
Rūjiena is the city name, which makes good ice cream 🙂 (or at least did). Pīrāgi can be made with štovēti kāposti (cabbage) inside 🙂 or my kids love with cheese filling 🙂
Ahh I see, haven’t been to that part of Latvia. Interesting idea for the Pīrāgi, will have to see if my sister can have a go at making them.
What a lovely day and a great excuse for a drive.
You turned disaster into opportunity
🙂 Thank you, Derrick! For my kids, it was a desaster, for me – got a day off from cooking and made an adventure out of it 🙂
Glad it worked out so well. I’ve never had food delivered.
Never!? All the big cities are full of delivery services… Did you cook all the meals/birthday parties, etc, by yourself? I did that until I got sick, and now I enjoy having “day off cooking” occasionally. I’m the only one who cooks in this household…
Maybe once a month we get take-away or go to a restaurant, but otherwise I cook. But there are usually just two of us and I make enough for leftovers so I don’t have to cook every night.
Oh, that is something I dream about. There are no leftovers at our table 🙂
I love these kind of impromptu adventures
Me too, Beth!
Did the Manor people eat the food? Such a big oops by the delivery folks! I’m not a fan of eating raw fish.
No, they delivered it to us! We got it 20min later 🙂 BUT, we just decided to go there and see how that manor looks 🙂 Our is better 😛 I love raw salmon…with cream cheese, lemon on white bread… yumm
I’ll bet it had to be reheated? Raw fish! 🙂↔️
NO, it was all good 🙂
Amazing!