What is in your cup?

[beppe]

Originally Posted by desertblues

I've seen quite a few nice oriental rugs and have already severalregrets

I just love them. But how will you take them home? Send them? Carry them? Ils sont lourds.

[astra]

A cup of good Keemun.

[Poppaea]

Coke

[dreams]

Originally Posted by desertblues

Just beginning to shop.....

One of the best parts of traveling.

Originally Posted by beppe

If you like, it buy it!
Otherwise later you will have a regret.
The money you spent, soon will be forgotten, but the sting of what you did not buy, that will keep stinging.

I learned that long ago.

Coffee #2

[astra]

Watched a fantastic film with my favourite actress.
The Tourist

WOW! Didn't have such a pleasure from a film for a long long time.
Considering that it was accompanied by posh teas such as Fortnum and Mason's Assam Hattialli FTGFOP and The East India Company's Emperors Yunnan

[The Terminator]

Water ect.. I hate it when that happens, I see something I like but look at the price and pass, and regret it for the rest of my life. (reminds me of when the BS shop Bargain shop, was closing, it was the last day and they had a quite a few flats of chocolate bars left, cheap but I thought what the heck don't kneed them) Now spending a dollar a bar I think about them

[The Terminator]

Stupid but hey it was chocolate how can you resist it.

[Stitchawl]

I don't want your lonely mansion with a tear in every room
I just want the love you promised, beneath the halo moon
But you think I should be happy with your money and your name
And hide myself in sorrow while you play your cheatin' game.

Silver threads and golden needles cannot mend this heart of mine
And I'll never drown my sorrow in the warm glow of your wine.
You can't buy my love with money for I never was that kind
silver threads and golden needles cannot mend this heart of mine

Good 'Golden Week' morning, everyone! Already the cars are lining up to for their traffic jams, and I'm having my first mug of Ahmad English Breakfast tea (in honor of DessertBlues) with a plate of feta chees, dates, olives, and flatbread.

Originally Posted by desertblues

Ahmad tea in my cup and chai on the way. I like it both. No Iranian tea and we're in the province of Gilan that produces 90% of the tea in Iran.
Yesterday I walked the city of Bandar- e Anzali, known for it's wetlands with endangered birds. I walked a few hours, along the coast of the Caspian Sea:

Anyone offering Iranian Beluga caviar? It sounds as if you are having a wonderful time! Please keep the reports coming!

Originally Posted by beppe

If you like, it buy it!
Otherwise later you will have a regret.
The money you spent, soon will be forgotten, but the sting of what you did not buy, that will keep stinging.

Giving in to temptation is one of the true pleasures in life.

Originally Posted by astra

WOW! Didn't have such a pleasure from a film for a long long time.
Considering that it was accompanied by posh teas such as Fortnum and Mason's Assam Hattialli FTGFOP and The East India Company's Emperors Yunnan

Ahhh... the pleasures of good entertainment and good tea... who can ask for more? Except perhaps, more tea. Thank you, I think I will! A second mug of Ahmad English Breakfast tea!

Stitchawl

[Aurora W]

Green tea & ginger ale

Thanks for the travel report, desertblues. That area sounds lovely.

Originally Posted by desertblues

BTW: I'll mention the bathrooms (W.C). I think it is called Turkeys toilets= a hole in a porcelain plateau. No toiletpaper and one has to wear either high
heels or boots, to keep it dry.

ah yes, Turkish toilets. No paper towels at the sinks usually either. Made many friends during rest stops while on weekend trips in Turkey, for I always (ALWAYS) carried travel packs of tissue and baby wipes in my travel pack...

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by Aurora W

ah yes, Turkish toilets. No paper towels at the sinks usually either. Made many friends during rest stops while on weekend trips in Turkey, for I always (ALWAYS) carried travel packs of tissue and baby wipes in my travel pack...

Standard in Japan too, although that's changing quickly. Pocket packs of tissues are used as advertising media and handed out for free around major train stations, usually by young people with multi-colored hair and lots of metal piercing in their faces... (It's the only work they can get here.)

Third mug of Breakfast tea...

Stitchawl

[ProfCrash]

OK so I flew home today. In the course of a 5 hour plane ride I managed 3 cups of bancha, two cups of Oolong, and three cups of Pu erh.

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by THE TERMINATOR

Stupid but hey it was chocolate how can you resist it.

Every time I say the dirty word 'exercise',
I wash my mouth out with chocolate.



Stitchawl

[desertblues]

A quiet moment before departing for Tabriz.
In my cup Iranian tea at last; a black tea Debsh Tea- Tehran. Unfortunately the water is heavely chlorinated, but it tasts allright.

For dinner I had a lovely eggplant dish; chopped onions, roasted eggplant, chopped walnuts, koriander.
Breakfast was served by bowing waiters, wearing white gloves and reading my every wish from my lips....
Real honeycomb, sweet clotted cream, flatbread, soft fetacheese, tomatoes, cucumber, eggs, eggdish with peppers and tomatoes. Tea and fresh orange juice.
Hardship, hardship, all this travelling.........

Caviar is all for the export, but this is the region for it indeed, Stitchawl.

[astra]

Good Saturday morning

A cup of Fortnum and Mason's Assam Hattialli.
A good start of the day

[pdurrant]

Coke Zero #1