Epcot before Milton

Posted on by Ian C.

It’s always a bit quieter at DisneyWorld before a hurricane comes – some tourists cancel their plans, and some locals are busy prepping … we often head down for a quieter day in the parks, and today we went to Epcot. We got to ride Soarin’ and Ratatouille (when it wasn’t broken) and Spaceship Earth, and met a couple Anna and Elsa; we couldn’t do Nemo because it was broken …

We also had lunch for the first time at Spaceship 220; it’s expensive but we had great service and the theming is interesting …

Making sour dough bread

Posted on by Ian C.

Our local French Bakery Le Petit Paris has started doing workshops to learn about making their products and today I joined them to learn about making sour dough bread. The course is quite expensive ($140) but it was very fun and I learned lots – and came home with bread!

Stefan, the baker / owner, presents the workshop and had a good set of instructions and good use of time to ensure us four attendees benefited … he began by giving us prepared dough to shape into bread (which went into proving and later was cooked for us to take home); we then moved to being shown how the dough was made, and how sough dough starter is used and care for.

Here’s photos from my morning …