Mark_K Posted March 23, 2014 #501 Share Posted March 23, 2014 It's probably just a cultural thing, I thought it was beer, I've never seen servings of wine in a stein. Sent using the Cruise Critic forums app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKCruiseJeff Posted March 23, 2014 Author #502 Share Posted March 23, 2014 It's probably just a cultural thing, I thought it was beer, I've never seen servings of wine in a stein. Sent using the Cruise Critic forums app 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 .... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKCruiseJeff Posted March 28, 2014 Author #503 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare spinnaker2 Posted March 28, 2014 #504 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Lovely grill marks Miss the peas though Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKCruiseJeff Posted March 28, 2014 Author #505 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Lovely grill marksMiss the peas though Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKCruiseJeff Posted April 1, 2014 Author #506 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Anniversary weekend ..... champers followed by meatloaf Wellington and sandwich Branston .... as usual I forgot to snappy before I munchy .... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Luxury Posted April 1, 2014 #507 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Ah the peas have been restored Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKCruiseJeff Posted April 3, 2014 Author #508 Share Posted April 3, 2014 (edited) 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 Edited April 3, 2014 by UKCruiseJeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark_K Posted April 3, 2014 #509 Share Posted April 3, 2014 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. Sent using the Cruise Critic forums app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKCruiseJeff Posted April 3, 2014 Author #510 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Interesting about it being the ovary. So, in reality, like the tomato, the pea is actually a fruit. Sent using the Cruise Critic forums app 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark_K Posted April 3, 2014 #511 Share Posted April 3, 2014 I'm not sure about that, but my wife does make a nice chicken & pasta salad with grapes and peas. Sent using the Cruise Critic forums app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKCruiseJeff Posted April 3, 2014 Author #512 Share Posted April 3, 2014 I'm not sure about that, but my wife does make a nice chicken & pasta salad with grapes and peas. Sent using the Cruise Critic forums app 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark_K Posted April 6, 2014 #513 Share Posted April 6, 2014 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. Sent using the Cruise Critic forums app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKCruiseJeff Posted April 6, 2014 Author #514 Share Posted April 6, 2014 That's better than having a grippe. ;) In other news, our lake is finally starting to regain its liquidity. [ATTACH]308629[/ATTACH] Sent using the Cruise Critic forums app I must listen to Garrison Keillor more ...... :D Do you fish on the lake when it's frozen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKCruiseJeff Posted April 12, 2014 Author #515 Share Posted April 12, 2014 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark_K Posted April 12, 2014 #516 Share Posted April 12, 2014 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. Sent using the Cruise Critic forums app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKCruiseJeff Posted April 12, 2014 Author #517 Share Posted April 12, 2014 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. Sent using the Cruise Critic forums app Envious of that. Sounds magical. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKCruiseJeff Posted April 13, 2014 Author #518 Share Posted April 13, 2014 He climbed onto his chimney to eat his breakfast. Couldn't let the moment pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Luxury Posted April 17, 2014 #519 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Santorini? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKCruiseJeff Posted April 17, 2014 Author #520 Share Posted April 17, 2014 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. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKCruiseJeff Posted April 19, 2014 Author #521 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Seabass. pak choi and Jersey Royals .. no peas ... no wine ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Luxury Posted April 19, 2014 #522 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Are you singing in the choir this Easter then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKCruiseJeff Posted April 19, 2014 Author #523 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Are you singing in the choir this Easter then? No, but my wife tells me I hum a bit! Boom! Boom! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare spinnaker2 Posted April 19, 2014 #524 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Nice balanced and colorful plating But the wine is missing.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKCruiseJeff Posted April 19, 2014 Author #525 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Nice balanced and colorful plating But the wine is missing.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 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. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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