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    Enjoy.

    Don't over do the sprouts or the missus will get a real treat.

    You won't remember a thing about it, as you've been on the hang glider.

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    That dry looks good. Used to be 42p a pint when i started visiting pubs. Used to get 5 pints takeaway and we'd share it. Very much the wrong side of 15

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    Great pics!.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    The sausage roll looks really nice, looks like a giant - I just hope it's as big as that photo suggests. Simple, but effective presentation.
    The sausage roll was decent decent sized, maybe your typical continental 6 inches. And yes, I'm really working on presentation - glad you noticed!

    In light of your food package preferences Mr Boo, my daughter has a full-sized, West Country message for you, by the way!



    Forty... yes 40, of the beauties in there!

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    ^ excellent shot!

    Go back to the UK is great for food and drink and stuff like popping into Thatchers...



    Nice glass, and you've managed the photographic law of thirds masterfully in that shot...

    Looks like you're both having a good time, good to see.
    Cycling should be banned!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Travel went... as expected.

    Check-in at Bangkok was exactly the same every other time I've ever travelled with the family...

    My bag, 19kg. The two bags for wife/sprog (that I had nothing to do with) came in at a whopping combined 58kg. Yep, straight away we were 8kg over our aggregate 23kg personal baggage allowance. A large part of this was due to 7kg of rice, packed loose in a carrier bag somewhere in the depths of one bag. My wife has yet to trust the UK's capability of supplying various food stuffs so brings her own. At one point this was looking like being Thailand's most expensive rice export in history, and in order to save the excess fine I was gonna have to unpack and hand carry the bloody stuff to Bristol.

    But... a result, and the check-in girl let us off - partly due to my winning smile, and partly I reckon due to me telling her that the ridiculous reindeer antler head-gear she was wearing was 'suay maak maak'!!!

    Yep, I haven't lost it!

    As always, in the 'D' area at AMS I had a sausage roll. I've been eating these sausage rolls at Schiphol for nigh on 30 years, and it started to feel like I was coming home!



    Then off to Gate D6, which has been the gate for Bristol flights (and all other provincial UK destinations) since the early 90s by my reckoning. A familiar sight.

    And welcome to Blighty!

    The thieving cider-guzzling carrot munching wurzel b@stards at Bristol want 2 quid for a trolley at arrivals! Can ya believe that!??



    Is this standard in the UK now? The only other airport I've ever seen this was Perth WA. Even the Norwegians don't charge for trolleys, and they don't normally miss out on a trick like this.

    I was gonna drag the bags through customs meself out of protest... but what choice did I have? After 20 odd hours of travelling the wife was about at her limit, the daughter a keen but hopeless helper, and I had half of Thailand's daily rice export to single-highhandedly transport through the airport to the taxi rank.

    So, £4 to the bandits.

    Oh, and if you don't have any UK or Euro change, no problem. There's an ATM right there, and a machine to convert your new notes to change. They got it covered!
    The lovely Manchester Airport has been doing this for eons. I think they were the originators of this ridiculously pissant money-grubbing idea. Having just cleared the full-Burqua wearing immigration desk after long-haul series of flights, you have to try obtain new (old, used ones don't work..) Pound coins to feed into those damned machines... "Welcome to Manchester". Cvunts.

    *rant over*

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    Quote Originally Posted by kmart View Post
    The lovely Manchester Airport has been doing this for eons. I think they were the originators of this wonderful money-grubbing idea.
    Ferihegy (Budapest) did it already in the mid nineties.

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    not sure there is anything to brag about that British food, doesn't really look good

    the beer looks interesting, was it bitter or sweet? micro-brewery is really great, even Thailand is having them now, but they are usually overpriced!!! as usual,

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    Cider or Cidre as you muppets pronounce it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonfly View Post
    not sure there is anything to brag about that British food, doesn't really look good

    the beer looks interesting, was it bitter or sweet? micro-brewery is really great, even Thailand is having them now, but they are usually overpriced!!! as usual,
    British food gets even better than Jaffa Cakes! We're off to a beautiful country pub for lunch today... pics will follow!

    There was three choices for the cider; sweet, medium and dry. The dry was a bit harsh for me and after a lot of experimentation last night i went for a two-thirds medium, a third dry mix. I may get some sweet as well next time - the possibilities are endless!

    The story goes that in these cider farms the brewers used to add pieces of meat to the vats while the cider matured. This was because in the old days rats used to fall in from the rafters and drown in the cider and the drinkers got used to the flavour. The slabs of meat replicated the rat flavour. HSE has done for all that now!

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    Mendip, i've known quite a few old cider drinkers over the years who had sight issues...i like the stuff but its not me regular drink when i'm out, thats waddies 6X.

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    ^ It was common to have a gin in your cider round this way, but I think those days of constant drinking, every lunchtime and every evening, are pretty much gone.

    Back then it was guys who were born, lived, worked and died in the same village - no reason not to drink. A trip to Bristol was a big day out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kmart View Post
    The lovely Manchester Airport has been doing this for eons. I think they were the originators of this ridiculously pissant money-grubbing idea. Having just cleared the full-Burqua wearing immigration desk after long-haul series of flights, you have to try obtain new (old, used ones don't work..) Pound coins to feed into those damned machines... "Welcome to Manchester". Cvunts.

    *rant over*
    I nearly had another episode yesterday.

    We went to the Co-op and they wanted a pound for the trolley! I thought this was just too much, but baskets wouldn't do it for our first big shop, so I relented.

    I complained to the girl at the till that it seemed bad to charge for trolleys, which help you buy more! Anyway, she gave me a funny look... and I found out you get the pound back. So, a happy Christmas story - it seems the pound is to stop people nicking the trolleys and it pops out of the handle when you take the trolley back! Clever.


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    Before I came over to the UK I tried to do all my Christmas shopping on Amazon, and sent it to my mum's house. The idea being to avoid shops altogether... fat chance!

    While the daughter is out of the way playing with her cousin, I've been checking through the stuff and discovering the follies of online Christmas shopping...

    When they say a four-pack of candy canes, it doesn't mean a box of four...



    And Cadbury's variety packs of eight, doesn't mean eight bars of chocolate in a variety pack...



    And it appears there are two different 'Size 5s' in the UK...



    Looks like I'll be shoe shopping today... but at least we have enough chocolate to last until 2025! The neighbours' kids will be happy!

    And one success story. I've just discovered Spotify, so treated meself to these! And they work. It's Christmas songs back to back!


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    ^^ how long have you been away?

    The trolleys in uk were like that 20 years ago.

    Must say, its quite mild here in London today, grey but mild.



    Through customs with a shit load of contraband

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    Well done! Nice carry-on by the way!

    And welcome to Blighty!

    It's grey and mild here as well... (the wife thinks it's cold of course!) ... reminds me of why I left the UK many years ago.

    The view from me mum's house, looking west. It's one low after another rolling in from the Atlantic this time of year. Grey and drizzle.


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    England does look miserable, but at least they have real Pubs with real Beers, not sure how cheap it is though

    here in Paris, a very nice lunch in Paris with a nice glass of wine is about 20 EUR, sometimes less, and you got to see normal people walking by

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    ^ I used to work in an office in Suresne, and remember a lovely Christmas market there. Pricey though...

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    Mendip, keep your eyes peeled for the chocolate tubs, roses, celebrations etc they keep reducing the weight but when on offer £3.50p is a good price still. Trouble is you can cane a tub in 2 days and just feel your body creeping one step closer to type 2 diabetes

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    ^ I used to work in an office in Suresne, and remember a lovely Christmas market there. Pricey though...
    yeah, the christmas markets are always a ripoff for tourists, lower quality cheese at 60EUR/Kg instead of 20EUR/kg etc...

    but nice festive feeling with cheap warm wine, Waffles, French Fries, Churros etc...

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    Kin hell Buttfly did you pick that bollocks you just spouted from a Mercan guide book. Paris is the last place i'd go in France if i was there near xmas its a tourist horror show, over priced etc. Now head east toward Alsace or south to Auvernge or better still fuk France off in favour of Catalonia and Paris appears what it is, an overpriced scrum.

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    Berry Xmas Everybody




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    Christmas at home: pork pies, cheeses and pickles. Oh yes.

    Boxing Day: 4 quid on a bus into town, a fiver a pint and the best part of a score in a taxi on the way home. Oh no.

    About a week/10 days maximum and you're ready to do one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post
    Berry Xmas Everybody
    Any good on draught? I've only tried that out of tins and seems OK. Reminds me of many years ago when we drank snake bite and black...

    Today, Norton's 'To do' list I want to try looked ever distant as we had to go and get a Christmas tree.

    On the way we stopped off to get some eggs. I love it that these places still exist.





    I borrowed £2 off the daughter and yes, it was put through the letter box!

    Then on to get the tree. We passed The White Hart on the way, and a pic for Mr Dhupp. The last time I had a pint in this pub was in the mid 80s when I was a New Romantic. Thank God there were no Smart phones and digital cameras back then!



    The local garden centre was full of Christmas tat. Had a look at this tree, but 175 quid and not even real! Bollox to that.



    More tat...



    The wife and daughter stopped off to watch three reindeer heads singing Christmas songs... well two really, the middle head did nothing and had it's eyes shut. Maybe worn out after two months of singing the same crap every day!



    And finally... mission accomplished!



    The guy stuck it through this clever tunnel thing to wrap it in netting. That was a nice touch... mind you it did cost 40 quid!



    And these days you even get instructions with a Christmas tree! Nanny state or what. Lucky though, we were gonna stick it up and decorate it with the netting on before I read that!



    Then a damn good hand wash before off to a fantastic country pub for lunch...
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    Take your eggs and put the money in the letter box? Wow! Great to see that indeed.

    I don't think I've ever come across that in my life before and it certainly wouldn't work where I'm from (and I'm sure the same applies pretty much the world over).

    The eggs would be pillaged within a matter of hours (the letterbox too for that matter).

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