Thanksgiving in Europe

Bit of trivia - the weather underground site was/is? the site of the
Univ. Michigan Meteorology Dept., used to be an ftp site
cirrus.umich.edu. In my limited experience with Cointreau it always
causes rainbows.......
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wf.

Ellie C wrote:

randee wrote:

Do you mean the www.wunderground site? It is usually pretty accurate.
And I'm confused - the rainbows were from the Cointreau, right?
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wf.

Ellie C wrote:

The Weather
Underground forecast was for a few clouds and high of 19. Wrong. It was
snowing! We went into two stores, found one bottle of sherry that wasn't
very appealing - we were looking for Amontillado. So, bough a bottle of
Cointreau, one chocolate bar, and a bag of dried white beans. Had lunch,
went home. But the drive back was spectacular. As we came down into
France there were rainbows hovering in front of us for about a half
hour. Spectacular rainbows, so dense and colorful that it seemed you
could reach out and touch them. It made the whole trip worthwhile.
Yes, that was the site and you're right, they're usually pretty
accurate. Ahhh, yeah, maybe the rainbows were from the Cointreau. :-)

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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:06:53 +0200, Ellie C
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I haven't been there for 30 years, the last time I went it was wall to
wall duty frees. I spent a whole afternoon haggling over the price of
a camera afterwards found it was about USD50cents more than the
Schiphol price.

I wasn't looking for electronics but did happen to notice that a Braun
blender that I had recently bought at Géant was more expensive in this
particular shop in Andorra.


Do they still expect you to bargain for everything?
I don't know, all I bought was a bottle of liquor, a chocolate bar and a
bag of white beans, and I didn't even think of bargaining. ;-)

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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:28:21 +0100, Ellie C
wrote:


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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:06:53 +0200, Ellie C
wrote:



I haven't been there for 30 years, the last time I went it was wall to
wall duty frees. I spent a whole afternoon haggling over the price of
a camera afterwards found it was about USD50cents more than the
Schiphol price.

I wasn't looking for electronics but did happen to notice that a Braun
blender that I had recently bought at Géant was more expensive in this
particular shop in Andorra.


Do they still expect you to bargain for everything?

I don't know, all I bought was a bottle of liquor, a chocolate bar and a
bag of white beans, and I didn't even think of bargaining. ;-)


next time? :-)
Yep I was a dope. Bet I could have got those beans at 25% off. ;-)

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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:28:21 +0100, Ellie C
wrote:


wrote:


On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:06:53 +0200, Ellie C
wrote:



I haven't been there for 30 years, the last time I went it was wall to
wall duty frees. I spent a whole afternoon haggling over the price of
a camera afterwards found it was about USD50cents more than the
Schiphol price.

I wasn't looking for electronics but did happen to notice that a Braun
blender that I had recently bought at Géant was more expensive in this
particular shop in Andorra.


Do they still expect you to bargain for everything?

I don't know, all I bought was a bottle of liquor, a chocolate bar and a
bag of white beans, and I didn't even think of bargaining. ;-)


next time? :-)
Yep I was a dope. Bet I could have got those beans at 25% off. ;-)

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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:28:21 +0100, Ellie C
wrote:


wrote:


On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:06:53 +0200, Ellie C
wrote:



I haven't been there for 30 years, the last time I went it was wall to
wall duty frees. I spent a whole afternoon haggling over the price of
a camera afterwards found it was about USD50cents more than the
Schiphol price.

I wasn't looking for electronics but did happen to notice that a Braun
blender that I had recently bought at Géant was more expensive in this
particular shop in Andorra.


Do they still expect you to bargain for everything?

I don't know, all I bought was a bottle of liquor, a chocolate bar and a
bag of white beans, and I didn't even think of bargaining. ;-)


next time? :-)
Yep I was a dope. Bet I could have got those beans at 25% off. ;-)

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:53:51 +0200, wrote:

I bet the are not as good as my own invention, Heinz
beans with Dutch sate sauce.

I've got to try them. Sounds interesting.
SOunds good. I find Heinz beans very bland and often add a lot of chili
powder to them.

add some peanut butter too and you have the perfect snack :-)

chilli+peanut butter ~= sate sauce

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Tim C.

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 15:32:42 +0100, wrote:

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 15:02:11 +0100, Tim Challenger
wrote:

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:53:51 +0200, wrote:

I bet the are not as good as my own invention, Heinz
beans with Dutch sate sauce.

I've got to try them. Sounds interesting.
SOunds good. I find Heinz beans very bland and often add a lot of chili
powder to them.

add some peanut butter too and you have the perfect snack :-)

chilli+peanut butter ~= sate sauce

er yes, that is where you and I came in :-)

I'll fetch our coats.

I missed your other post until it was too late.
My coats the black one, ta.

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Tim C.