Discussione: McDs gourmets comments
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Vecchio 25-10-2014, 15.09.30
Bill
 
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On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 05:07:09 -0700 (PDT), Surreyman
<alanspencer3@googlemail.com> wrote:
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>On Saturday, October 25, 2014 1:02:50 AM UTC+1, Jack Campin wrote:[color=green][color=darkred]
>> > I must admit that the best wine I ever had was a very aged
>> > Champagne that apparently cost over £100 (provided by a friend!) -
>> > and I normally don't even like Champagne.[/color]
>>
>> The best I can recall was in the early 1990s in north-east Turkey.
>> We had a picnic on the riverbank at Tekkale (near Artvin) where
>> two furious torrents meet. The Soviet Union's closing down sale
>> meant that busloads of Georgians were coming over the border to
>> sell stuff and prostitute themselves. At the Georgian market in
>> Yusufeli, we got a bottle of wonderful Azerbaijani pink champagne
>> for about 2 quid and a jar of caviar to go with it for 50p, together
>> with a fresh loaf of local bread. Yum.
>>
>> On checking out the prices you'd pay in the UK for similar caviar
>> when we got back home, it seemed we'd eaten 200 pounds' worth for
>> lunch.
>>
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>> Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland
>> mobile 07800 739 557 <http://www.campin.me.uk> Twitter: JackCampin[/color]
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>A party of us once bought (deliberately!) 4 coffees and two soft drinks from one of the St. Mark's Square cafes in Venice. That was also £200+! But we were expecting it - it was a long arranged special occasion.[/color]

£200 for six drinks seems a lot, even for St Mark's Square.
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