After New Zealand, it was my next one. And Ireland was completely lovely, with truly wonderful people... but the scenery and space in New Zealand. My goodness. (Hard to get a decent cup of coffee, though.)
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After New Zealand, it was my next one. And Ireland was completely lovely, with truly wonderful people... but the scenery and space in New Zealand. My goodness. (Hard to get a decent cup of coffee, though.)
You just weren't visiting the right spots! You should've come to my place, I would've taken you some place good. 
Oh, Wondrous Flakesie, I only wish. We were there for our 30th, which was over 10 years ago.
We were treated to wondrous sights, the wonderful scenery, and I bungy'd on the Kawarau, and saw the great Gollum mockup at the Wellington airport, and the Auckland tower, and moving the blocks over on the Auckland highway, the warming towel racks in the B&Bs, the ibises in the parking lots, and all that... but the American idea of drip coffee just wasn't there. We would've LOVED to have known you then.
Seems a lot if time travellers in this survey, wanna go meet jesus. so, when the yellow coats and the taheen deliver us those shiny fedic doors for us to travel to the 'big events' , there sure is gonna be a big queue to meet the dude. ( im not talking about jeff bridges neither) Im guessing 'sermon on the hill' right?
Well, heres the thing. Robert Silverberg pointed this out in 'up the line'
Its gonna get busy...best take some binoculars .
Well, heres the thing. Robert Silverberg pointed this out in 'up the line'
Its gonna get busy...best take some binoculars .
You bungy'd? I still haven't done that.. I'm a bit chicken-shyte of heights.
We do have the drip-coffee (percolated?) here but yar, you do have to pick n choose a little to get the good stuff.
Yeah, well, you can keep your caffeinated beverages, we have kangaroos.
I am totally not drinking a Kangaroo.
You bungy'd? I still haven't done that.. I'm a bit chicken-shyte of heights.
We do have the drip-coffee (percolated?) here but yar, you do have to pick n choose a little to get the good stuff.
I actually do have the T-shirt to prove it!
I cannot remember getting a familiar cup of coffee in NZ. It seemed to be espresso mixed with hot water, or something. NEWS FLASH TO THE WORLD: "Americano" is not "American" coffee, any more than canned salmon is fresh smoked salmon.
And we have porcupines. But they ain't coffee.
You haven't lived until you've tasted Kangaroo-Flavour Coffee.
Does it taste anything like Drop-Bear tea?
Oh deah, they were probably selling you the cheap 'tourist' coffee... those bastids.
I swear, the next time I go to a Pacific Rim country, I'm taking a bag of fresh ground (we have a grinder) and say, "Just give me extremely hot water, please."
I can only imagine how freakin' big the grinder must be.
Nope. It's quite similar to a Wombat milkshake though.
Better than that Marmalade B.S ....
If I think about this, coffee has actually gotten a lot better in the last 10 years--many people now have their own coffee makers and it's just become the norm to not settle for the crappy stuff.
I love the word Mothereffer! Isn't there something so dang satisfying in saying that word? I knew a girl in college who left out the "mother" part, and called everyone a "f***er," accentuating the "er" part, and I used to love that.
That's my very bad word, too--lol. It's so satisfying to say slowly, drawing out every bit of venom and bile that you can. I'm trying to cut it out, though, because Mr. 9 picks up and uses all kinds of vocabulary (nice and not so nice--lol).