Silversea Water Cooler: Welcome! Part Five

[Host Jazzbeau]

55 minutes ago, jpalbny said:

I am very familiar with #17. I keep writing the name down but I can't seem to remember it. 😉

Was this one of the graduation requirements?  [writing prescriptions in griffonage so only pharmacists can decipher them...]

[Lirio]

she was in from my hotel yesterday. tomorrow we start our way back home. London for 1.5 day then back to Rio flying London-Lisbon-Rio de Janeiro.

Asap I will do a trip review.

 

[mysty]

Greetings Coolers!

 

Today's funny.....

 

 

Have a great safe fun day all!

[drron29]

7 hours ago, Host Jazzbeau said:

Was this one of the graduation requirements?  [writing prescriptions in griffonage so only pharmacists can decipher them...]

I topped the course in griffonage.

We have a long history in Australia of poor writing as suggested by a famous Aussie poem.

"

And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected,
   (And I think the same was written in a thumbnail dipped in tar)"

 

http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/patersonab/poetry/clancy.html

[drron29]

We were supposed to be in Portofino today but cancelled due to a severe storm.We got a taste of it in Livorno where we are spending the day instead. Glad we didn't do walking tours as a storm went through here with lightening,thunder and hail.

yesterday

 

today

[Brownie54]

I knew #20 because as a child I used to buy my shoes at the Park-Brannock shoe store in Syracuse, New York!

[zqtchas]

[Stumblefoot]

4 hours ago, drron29 said:

We were supposed to be in Portofino today but cancelled due to a severe storm.

Yikes! Sorry you missed Portofino though.

[drron29]

No problems we are due to visit in April next year.

[Lirio]

4 hours ago, zqtchas said:

Winter in Rio de Janeiro........

[zqtchas]

[mysty]

Greetings Coolers!

 

Today's funny.....

 

 

Have a great safe fun day all!

[drron29]

For the cruise ending tomorrow in Civitavecchia the Dawn has been full. It remains full for the voyage to Venice.

Also must have the youngest median age of any SS cruise we have been on. Many children and under 40s.

[zqtchas]

8 hours ago, drron29 said:

For the cruise ending tomorrow in Civitavecchia the Dawn has been full. It remains full for the voyage to Venice.

Also must have the youngest median age of any SS cruise we have been on. Many children and under 40s.

any covid reports?

[zqtchas]

[mysty]

Greetings Coolers!

 

Today's funny.....

 

 

Have a great safe fun day all!

[Lirio]

somewhere in UK....last  vaccation day....Monday back to office, I mean home office. enough of ship office  hotel office......

 

 

[jpalbny]

Just a few more weeks of summer to go. We usually stay home and work while our colleagues who have children go on vacation during the school holidays. We definitely enjoy vacationing during less busy times, but it does make for a long summer.

 

The past few days I've been looking at our trip pics from April. Slovenia and Croatia, then some time in Paris on the way there and back. This really gave me a craving for the ham and cheese galette that I had at a crêperie in Paris on our last night. 

 

Luckily I had some buckwheat flour in the pantry for just such an emergency. And a little leftover crème fraîche. With some ham and Gruyère, It was almost as good as I remembered. 

 

 

Tonight I made chicken wings, roasted with a balsamic-honey glaze, with rosemary and garlic. Lots of strong flavors. 

 

 

The cucumber salad from the garden went well.

 

 

But what wine? The weather was too hot for a red, and the balsamic wouldn't go well with that either. But a white might be too light.

 

Then I remembered that we had brought some orange wine home from Slovenia! This orange Malvazija had tons of acidity, some citrus peel and honey aromas, and a touch of yeasty funkiness. It was a very different flavor profile, and a fun match with the wings! 

 

 

5PM and still 90F degrees out. Time for a swim.

[mysty]

12 minutes ago, jpalbny said:

Just a few more weeks of summer to go. We usually stay home and work while our colleagues who have children go on vacation during the school holidays. We definitely enjoy vacationing during less busy times, but it does make for a long summer.

 

The past few days I've been looking at our trip pics from April. Slovenia and Croatia, then some time in Paris on the way there and back. This really gave me a craving for the ham and cheese galette that I had at a crêperie in Paris on our last night. 

 

Luckily I had some buckwheat flour in the pantry for just such an emergency. And a little leftover crème fraîche. With some ham and Gruyère, It was almost as good as I remembered. 

 

 

Tonight I made chicken wings, roasted with a balsamic-honey glaze, with rosemary and garlic. Lots of strong flavors. 

 

 

The cucumber salad from the garden went well.

 

 

But what wine? The weather was too hot for a red, and the balsamic wouldn't go well with that either. But a white might be too light.

 

Then I remembered that we had brought some orange wine home from Slovenia! This orange Malvazija had tons of acidity, some citrus peel and honey aromas, and a touch of yeasty funkiness. It was a very different flavor profile, and a fun match with the wings! 

 

 

5PM and still 90F degrees out. Time for a swim.

 

OMG JP!  The Gods and Goddesses of the Culinary World are cheering your offerings!  Super yummy! 😋

[silkismom]

Drooling.

[QueSeraSera]

Those wings look particularly good!

[zqtchas]

[mysty]

Greetings Coolers!

 

Today's funny.....

 

 

Have a great safe fun day all!

[drron29]

On 8/20/2022 at 11:03 AM, zqtchas said:

any covid reports?

No covid cases at all on the cruise ending in Rome. Though on our in transit tour there were a couple with quite suspicious coughs. The male would take off his mask to cough. Just wow.

[mysty]

1 hour ago, drron29 said:

No covid cases at all on the cruise ending in Rome. Though on our in transit tour there were a couple with quite suspicious coughs. The male would take off his mask to cough. Just wow.

 

We encountered that same kind of thing on our cruises.   Is it really so difficult to connect the dots?