What is in your cup?

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by astra

I celebrate it with a delicious cup of Assam Harmutty STGFOP1 S.

Special Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe?

Late this afternoon I restocked my favorite teas...
East India Company's Royal Breakfast tea
East India Company's Assam tea
Ahmad English Breakfast tea
Unbranded Ceylon Uva tea
Taylor's of Harrogate's English Breakfast tea
Taylor's of Harrogate's Yorkshire tea
Unbranded Keemun tea
Twinings Prince of Wales tea
Fortnum & Mason's Ceylon tea

Sat for an hour and a half and filled tea bags for each, and restocked the tins too. I'm set for another few weeks!

Stitchawl

[Iridal]

Originally Posted by desertblues

Cold Arabica-coffee
I am going to buy me a book today (Week of the Book) and with the free book I get with it, I can travel by train tomorrow, for free.
The trains will be packed with people all clinging to their free book. i'll go to the furthest city I can think of.

That's a great initiative! Have lots of fun

[astra]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Special Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe?

That would be my guess based on ProfCrash's tip

I think Assam Hazelbank FTGFOP1 was just a tiny little bit better


Another cup of The East India Company's Emperors Yunnan Tea.
It is one of the best teas I have tried so far.

[ProfCrash]

Originally Posted by desertblues

Thanks men. Now my partner is retiring, we'll travel a lot. He loves trains. We'll be riding in the Trans Mongolia Express, or the Trans Siberia Express next year.

Cold Arabica - coffee.

Now I am jealous. I love train travel and wish that it was easier in the US. There are some trains that are easy put way too expensive on the East Coast. They cost the same as an airplane ticket.

Fruit smoothie.

[pdurrant]

Coke Zero, before I go and cut the grass for the first time this year.

[Iridal]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

Now I am jealous. I love train travel and wish that it was easier in the US. There are some trains that are easy put way too expensive on the East Coast. They cost the same as an airplane ticket.

Fruit smoothie.

A comment like that can only come from a person who doesn't have to travel by train every day

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Coke Zero, before I go and cut the grass for the first time this year.

Aaah, don't you just love spring ? I've missed the smell of freshly cut grass ...

Glass of coke zero, and then off to see mom and dad

[Stitchawl]

Home alone with a glass of Bombay Sapphire...

'night, all!


Stitchawl

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by Iridal

A comment like that can only come from a person who doesn't have to travel by train every day

You're saying that to the person that has swallowed all traintravel books by Paul Theroux: Riding the Iron Rooster, The Old Patagonia Express, The great Railway Bazaar, The Pillars of Hercules......to name a few.
If you've ever read one of them, you would change your mind. Really. So exciting!
I used to go by train from Switzerland to the Netherlands when I worked there; never got tired of it.

But I can see that travelling by train can be a hardship; interesting boys on the train and thinking what to do........

But serious now: the trains in the Netherlands are a disaster now. Practically never on time. I guess the same goes for the ones in Belgium? And that is very annoying; I agree.

But these far-away train-travels. Yippeeeeee and hurraaaaaaaah and so on.

[maianhvk]

Originally Posted by desertblues

Thanks men. Now my partner is retiring, we'll travel a lot. He loves trains. We'll be riding in the Trans Mongolia Express, or the Trans Siberia Express next year.

Cold Arabica - coffee.

I've never been on train before

[beppe]

I love traveling by train, much more than driving a car. Whenever is practical I prefer the iron wheels. Now we can go from Milano to Rome in 3 hours (downtown-downtown) so that is not yet something to do with leisure, Milano Florence takes 1.5 hours. Which means taking the train at 9 arriving at 10:30, a tour of shopping or sight seeing, a nice lunch (and boys, do they know about feeding you nice and dandy there), a stroll around, a visit to a monument, or an art museum, or more shopping, and at 4 you take your train and you are back like nobody's business. I might do it one of this day

[ProfCrash]

I would prefer taking the train to driving. I can read and listen to music and not have to worry about the other idiots driving.

[Latinandgreek]

Cold Turkish coffee.

[astra]

Originally Posted by Iridal

Aaah, don't you just love spring ? I've missed the smell of freshly cut grass ...

as long as the grass has been cut by somebody else

Originally Posted by desertblues

But serious now: the trains in the Netherlands are a disaster now. Practically never on time. And that is very annoying; I agree.

When I have been to Amsterdam in August 2007, we went to Delft and folk village on one day trips. Both times by trains. Both time I could no stop admiring. Your trams....To tell the truth, after 5 days we went to Vienna and I loved their trains too.
Unless it has changed since summer 2007, I wonder what would you say about British trains then...



I had a very nice time in my garden today. The first outing since October

Swinging chair.
A book.
Two glasses of superb Ginseng Oolong, then a bit of

Sometimes it is nice to be alive

A cup of Georgian Caravan.
Good tea. It is like a very light version of Lapsang souchong. Because it is a slim version you don't need a rainy weather to enjoy it

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

I would prefer taking the train to driving. I can read and listen to music and not have to worry about the other idiots driving.

( my bolding)

Originally Posted by astra

When I have been to Amsterdam in August 2007, we went to Delft and folk village on one day trips. Both times by trains. Both time I could no stop admiring. Your trams....To tell the truth, after 5 days we went to Vienna and I loved their trains too.
Unless it has changed since summer 2007, I wonder what would you say about British trains then...
I had a very nice time in my garden today. The first outing since October
Swinging chair.
A book. Two glasses of....

Well, what has changed is that the trains were privatized and split in two companies: one for maintenance (Pro-Rail) and one for train-traffic (NS, Dutch Railways). Things have gone down since.

The trains don't run on time; every year there's trouble with 'fallen leaves' on the rails, in autumn......copperthieves. And so on.

The latest is that they've ordered trains without toilet-facilities
It is annoying because one never knows when to leave. I had this important event in Amsterdam; an inauguration of a friend. I left 2 hours in advance; that is, non-scheduled. And I was half an hour late, because the train had to return to the original station.

But; nice weather today. Slaved in my garden and it looks absolutely nice and clean now. The good part: my partner helped and we had a large glass of white wine after our work. The good life.

[astra]

Originally Posted by desertblues

Well, what has changed is that the trains were privatized and split in two companies: one for maintenance (Pro-Rail) and one for train-traffic (NS, Dutch Railways). Things have gone down since.

Pity.
After visiting Amsterdam, I used to say: why cannot we have the same service in the UK.
Oh well.



A cup of Tea House Emporium's Tuocha Pu-Erh.
I have done it first time, so I followed the instructions.
1 tuocha, 300ml, 100°C, 2-3min->2min.