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From: Tom P on 16 Jun 2010 06:37

erilar wrote:
> In article <87qdfrFt1vU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
> Tom P <werotizy(a)freent.dd> wrote:
>
>> I guess the problem that you are addressing is that there is no
>> discussion here about travel, which requires that the people who
>> actually travel around Europe discuss it. I suppose I am guilty because
>> in the last 6 weeks I've been to Valencia, London, Bamberg and
>> Nuremberg, but I never felt the need to discuss the fact.
>
> Same here. There's nothing really notable about the fact that I went to
> Germany again other than that I had a great time, added some castles to
> my collection because I went places I had not been before(there are a
> few left), took nearly a thousand fotos, and ate Spargel several times.
> I'd forgotten because it's been a while since I was there during Spargel
> season how much I love it 8-)
>
> My spellchecker hates German words 8-) but I don't think of it as being
> much like what I've called asparagus for many decades. It's so much
> better! And even little green American asparagus is one of my favorite
> vegetables.
>

Yes, I prefer green asparagus. I never understood what the appeal was in
eating piles of gigantic white asparagus stalks.

T.

From: Martin on 16 Jun 2010 06:36

On 16/06/10 11:24, Giovanni Drogo wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Martin wrote:
>
>> I hadn't thought to mention that we had been eating Dutch asparagus
>> for the last few weeks, some home grown, and also strawberries that
>> weren't produced in a greenhouse, again some are home grown.
>
> Season for asparagus and strawberries is nearly over here in Italy.

Asparagus is nearly over in NL too. The home grown strawberries are
poor. They are large but not very sweet, maybe caused by the lack of sun
and the below average temperatures during May-June.

>
> I've pleasant recalls of buying strawberries at Groningen market in
> August, and looking for a fountain to wash them, and eating them in
> Leeuwarden while waiting for a bus carrying us back over the big
> Ijsselmeer dike. Also of pannekoek with strawberries in Delft.
> And of a climb to Salzburg castle eating strawberries.
>
> And wild wood strawberries in Trentino coming down from Montesover to
> Brusago.

and from the side of a little used railway track when I was a small kid.
I never thought about how train toilets were flushed at that age.

>
> Just discussing these thing this morning with my mother, about "travel
> zapping".
>
> I shall explain this. Last week on one of the few smart programs on
> italian TV, they interviewed an ultraoctuagenarian literate, who made a
> praise of "zapping del letto". It was a pun on "letto" as "bed" and
> "letto" as "read", participle past of the verb "to read". He spends
> nights in bed recalling the books he has read. My mother recall the
> trips she made.
>
>

From: Martin on 16 Jun 2010 06:55

On 16/06/10 12:37, Tom P wrote:
> erilar wrote:
>> In article <87qdfrFt1vU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
>> Tom P <werotizy(a)freent.dd> wrote:
>>
>>> I guess the problem that you are addressing is that there is no
>>> discussion here about travel, which requires that the people who
>>> actually travel around Europe discuss it. I suppose I am guilty
>>> because in the last 6 weeks I've been to Valencia, London, Bamberg
>>> and Nuremberg, but I never felt the need to discuss the fact.
>>
>> Same here. There's nothing really notable about the fact that I went
>> to Germany again other than that I had a great time, added some
>> castles to my collection because I went places I had not been
>> before(there are a few left), took nearly a thousand fotos, and ate
>> Spargel several times. I'd forgotten because it's been a while since I
>> was there during Spargel season how much I love it 8-)
>>
>> My spellchecker hates German words 8-) but I don't think of it as
>> being much like what I've called asparagus for many decades. It's so
>> much better! And even little green American asparagus is one of my
>> favorite vegetables.
>>
>
> Yes, I prefer green asparagus. I never understood what the appeal was in
> eating piles of gigantic white asparagus stalks.

Good that leaves more for the rest of us :o)

From: george on 16 Jun 2010 09:26

On Jun 16, 12:36 pm, Martin <mar...(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 16/06/10 11:24, Giovanni Drogo wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Martin wrote:
>
> >> I hadn't thought to mention that we had been eating Dutch asparagus
> >> for the last few weeks, some home grown, and also strawberries that
> >> weren't produced in a greenhouse, again some are home grown.
>
> > Season for asparagus and strawberries is nearly over here in Italy.
>
> Asparagus is nearly over in NL too. The home grown strawberries are
> poor. They are large but not very sweet, maybe caused by the lack of sun
> and the below average temperatures during May-June.
>

> > I've pleasant recalls of buying strawberries at Groningen market in
> > August, and looking for a fountain to wash them, and eating them in
> > Leeuwarden while waiting for a bus carrying us back over the big
> > Ijsselmeer dike. Also of pannekoek with strawberries in Delft.
> > And of a climb to Salzburg castle eating strawberries.
>
> > And wild wood strawberries in Trentino coming down from Montesover to
> > Brusago.
>
> and from the side of a little used railway track when I was a small kid.
> I never thought about how train toilets were flushed at that age.
>
Reminds me of my German wife always telling me not to eat any berries
in the forest in Germany as the foxes pee on them and this carries
some type of "near fatal (?)" disease!!!

George

From: Erick T. Barkhuis on 16 Jun 2010 09:33

george:

>Reminds me of my German wife always telling me not to eat any berries
>in the forest in Germany as the foxes pee on them and this carries
>some type of "near fatal (?)" disease!!!

That must be something local, here.
In the German village where I live, people keep constantly reminding me
to only pick wild berries that grow at least one meter high, otherwise
[the fox story]. I have no clue whether or not there's some truth about
that claim, though.

--
Erick