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[Mark_K]

It's probably just a cultural thing, I thought it was beer, I've never seen servings of wine in a stein.

 

 

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[UKCruiseJeff]

It's probably just a cultural thing, I thought it was beer, I've never seen servings of wine in a stein.

 

 

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Congrats on making the 500th post .....

 

I thought you were ribbing! Genuinely, hence the ribbing reply.:D

 

Fresh current year wine in Austrian Heuriger is served in quarter litre mugs. Poncey places put it into eight litre glasses and charge the same. 's mostly refreshing Gruner Veltliner which is the local grape. When the heurige has it's wine ready they hang some vine branches outside.

 

Hope you get to try some ....

 

:)

[UKCruiseJeff]

[spinnaker2]

Lovely grill marks

Miss the peas though

 

 

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[UKCruiseJeff]

Lovely grill marks

Miss the peas though

 

 

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I agree. I use to Pea more but I'm off of wine at the moment because of the excesses last week. At the moment I am a fat git and I wish to be a slightly less fat git. I am trying to be happy in myself but it isn't working. :D

[UKCruiseJeff]

Anniversary weekend ..... champers followed by meatloaf Wellington and sandwich Branston .... as usual I forgot to snappy before I munchy .... :D

 

 

 

[Mr Luxury]

Ah the peas have been restored

[UKCruiseJeff]

Ah the peas have been restored

 

Pisum Sativum Maximus!

 

Peas are never far from our plates. Those little green pearls of the veggy world are the royalty. Did you know that they are from the ovary of the flower? So why is it Le Petit Pois and not La? Those whacky confused frogs.

 

:D

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[Mark_K]

Pisum Sativum Maximus!

 

Peas are never far from our plates. Those little green pearls of the veggy world are the royalty. Did you know that they are from the ovary of the flower? So why is it Le Petit Pois and not La? Those whacky confused frogs.

 

:D

Interesting about it being the ovary. So, in reality, like the tomato, the pea is actually a fruit.

 

 

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[UKCruiseJeff]

Interesting about it being the ovary. So, in reality, like the tomato, the pea is actually a fruit.

 

 

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It is indeed a fruit. It had a bad PR man in the 50s.

 

I hope you will now put a bag of them in the friut bowl with the grapes, bananas and apples.

 

:D

[Mark_K]

I'm not sure about that, but my wife does make a nice chicken & pasta salad with grapes and peas.

 

 

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[UKCruiseJeff]

I'm not sure about that, but my wife does make a nice chicken & pasta salad with grapes and peas.

 

 

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I think your wife sounds wonderful ... but I'd have a gripe with the grapes.

 

Grapes are purely for drinking in 250 ml glass mugs.

 

:D

[Mark_K]

I think your wife sounds wonderful ... but I'd have a gripe with the grapes.

 

 

 

Grapes are purely for drinking in 250 ml glass mugs.

 

 

 

:D

That's better than having a grippe. ;)

 

In other news, our lake is finally starting to regain its liquidity.

 

 

 

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[UKCruiseJeff]

That's better than having a grippe. ;)

 

In other news, our lake is finally starting to regain its liquidity.

 

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I must listen to Garrison Keillor more ...... :D

 

Do you fish on the lake when it's frozen?

[UKCruiseJeff]

Gosh ... 25,000 views on this irrelevant and irreverant thread. :)

 

But it's gone a bit quiet and so I thought .... will anyone be interested in posting the odd Silversea related picture they particularly enjoyed at the time? There's no where else to post them ... and it might be fun to share them.

 

This is a picture of a couple of fellow travellers. We loved their company. They were establishing where the sun was to decide which side of the pool to take their sunbed.

 

 

 

Anyone else got some pictorial memories of a great Silversea moment?

[Mark_K]

I must listen to Garrison Keillor more ...... :D

 

 

 

Do you fish on the lake when it's frozen?

I have, but not often. My son-in-law has a shanty he brings over some times. After he gets it set up, and the heater going, then I go out.

 

 

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[UKCruiseJeff]

I have, but not often. My son-in-law has a shanty he brings over some times. After he gets it set up, and the heater going, then I go out.

 

 

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Envious of that. Sounds magical. :)

[UKCruiseJeff]

He climbed onto his chimney to eat his breakfast. Couldn't let the moment pass.

 

 

[Mr Luxury]

Santorini?

[UKCruiseJeff]

Santorini?

 

 

Yes - Oia! :)

 

When I saw this chap climb up ono his chimney with his breakfast it caught a wonderful sense of Oia and I had to have that picture. :D

 

Very important to get up to Oia very quickly before all the rabble off the ship catches up! A lovely place very early when there's no one else to share it with. My wife got me up on the cable car from the ship, something that terrifies me - I'm not a good vertigo person.

 

We were there on a subsequent SS cruise a few months later but there were four other large ships moored and we couldn't face the Thira queues for the cable car .... and those poor donkies with those heavy people ... so we stayed on the boat and simply looked at the pack of wild dogs on the hill and had Planters Punches all day by the pool bar ... just as Rodders would.

 

That photograph just evokes memories of a wonderful day. :)

[UKCruiseJeff]

Seabass. pak choi and Jersey Royals .. no peas ... no wine ...

 

[Mr Luxury]

Are you singing in the choir this Easter then?

[UKCruiseJeff]

Are you singing in the choir this Easter then?

 

No, but my wife tells me I hum a bit! Boom! Boom!

[spinnaker2]

Nice balanced and colorful plating

But the wine is missing....

 

 

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[UKCruiseJeff]

Nice balanced and colorful plating

But the wine is missing....

 

 

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I'm getting over a week in Devon.

 

We discovered a great Indian restaurant that delivers. It was my undoing. Every other night I gobbled it down. I am now even more imperfectly formed. I hate not having wine, it really hurts. I am currently not under the effluence of incohol and it is not as nice. :(