»In which we go to the Orangerie

Owl Butterflies feeding
The Orangerie at de Hortus is pretty fantastic. The cheeses come with attribution to the farmer; I ate a "mature cheese by Farmer Verdegaal" on some freshly-baked brown, really brown, bread. Not "whole wheat". Yum.
The Hortus Botanicus itself dates back four hundred years, boasts some three-hundred-year-old cycad specimens (the male; the female is a hundred years younger), and a Wollemi pine tree, an Australian conifer until recently known only as a fossil specimen. The Hortus also cultivated the coffee plant, and is thus directly responsible for the shakes I get when I don't have my morning cuppa. Fortunately, the Orangerie makes probably the tastiest coffee drinks in town.

salim filed this under shenanigans at 03h49 Saturday, 24 February 2007 (link) (Yr two bits?)