Noordwijk and Leiden

tech2000 · Post #41by **tech2000** » 23.10.2006, 16:19

Hi Guillermo!

It seems you like volcanos which brings me to this question/tip, have you seen the beautiful chilean volcano Osorno?

Regards, Anders

rthorvald · Post #42by **rthorvald** » 23.10.2006, 19:14

buggs_moran wrote:you should probably be able to order it online, that's how I found it. yerbamatecafe.com may even ship overseas, I am not sure

Thanks. But i??ll have a look downtown: there are many south americans here in Oslo, so some immigrant shops should probably have it. Hmm, i lived with some people from Chile for a couple of years once: i never saw them drink it, so maybe not...

- rthorvald

Post #43by **ElChristou** » 23.10.2006, 20:03

rthorvald wrote:... Hmm, i lived with some people from Chile for a couple of years once: i never saw them drink it, so maybe not...

Nope, it's not an habit in Chile; only Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and a bit south of Brazil...

Post #44by **chris** » 23.10.2006, 20:14

ElChristou wrote:
rthorvald wrote:... Hmm, i lived with some people from Chile for a couple of years once: i never saw them drink it, so maybe not...

Nope, it's not an habit in Chile; only Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and a bit south of Brazil...

It seemed to be a habit in Patagonian Chile . . . I shared mate a few times with various Chileans while visiting that area.

--Chris

Post #45by **ElChristou** » 23.10.2006, 20:36

chris wrote:
ElChristou wrote:
rthorvald wrote:... Hmm, i lived with some people from Chile for a couple of years once: i never saw them drink it, so maybe not...

Nope, it's not an habit in Chile; only Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and a bit south of Brazil...

It seemed to be a habit in Patagonian Chile . . . I shared mate a few times with various Chileans while visiting that area.

--Chris

For sure, but by habit I mean a national habit; the Terer?© and later Mate comes from the indian tribe called Guaranis, a very large tribe living from Mato Grosso do Sul til Paraguay and a bit in north of Argentina; this can explain that the habit is not yet really implemented in Chile...

abramson · Post #46by **abramson** » 23.10.2006, 22:19

tech2000 wrote:It seems you like volcanos which brings me to this question/tip, have you seen the beautiful chilean volcano Osorno?

Certainly, certainly. It is very beautiful. So is Puntiagudo, very close, and Tronador, at the border. I almost climbed Osorno once, but turned back from the middle. On the same trip I had climbed the Villarrica, which is active, and had leant on the caldera, so the Osorno would have been such a laydown.

Lanin is very impressive, though, because of its heigth. It's the highest point in Patagonia, I believe.

Incidentaly, Osorno's last eruption was witnessed by Charles Darwin, during his travel around the world.

Guillermo

tech2000 · Post #47by **tech2000** » 23.10.2006, 23:01

ElChristou wrote:For sure, but by habit I mean a national habit; the Terer?© and later Mate comes from the indian tribe called Guaranis, a very large tribe living from Mato Grosso do Sul til Paraguay and a bit in north of Argentina; this can explain that the habit is not yet really implemented in Chile...

I just got back from the supermarket and ofcourse I check it out. We have atleast 5 different brands to chose from here in Chile. With all this talk about mate, I guess I have to give it a shot. So please fill me in here, I will not buy in teabags. How do I prepare and consume it?

Thanks in advance, Anders

tech2000 · Post #48by **tech2000** » 23.10.2006, 23:06

Sounds like there are quite a few guys here on the forum who likes adventures.

Post #49by **Toti** » 24.10.2006, 15:25

Buggs and Tech,

Try any brand that includes small amounts of poleo or peperina (wild mint) with the yerba. That's the typical C??rdoba mix.
But keep in mind that preparation of the mate is crucial for the final product: you won't believe up to which extent the taste differs.
Here you have some pretty good instructions on how to arrange it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(beverage)

Vincent · Post #50by **Vincent** » 24.10.2006, 18:07

Sorry, neither volcano nor wonderful mountains for me...
Just the room in which I spend all my spare time for the Lua edu Tools...

NIGHTCAST2000 · Post #51by **NIGHTCAST2000** » 24.10.2006, 21:18

Hi to all,
I've been looking in the purgatory section on this forum out of curiousity.When I stumbled on this post,I've decieded to put a picture of myself too.So here is a picture of me taken three years ago when me and my friends went to the Gothic weekend in a seaside town of Whitby,which is held there every six months.
[img][img]http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/3865/steve02wf5.th.png[/img][/img]

:oops:

Sorry guys,I didn't realise the image was going to be that big.
Regards,
Nightcast2000

Post #52by **ElChristou** » 24.10.2006, 22:25

@ Nightcast2000

Could you please resize or create a thumb of you photo?
png is not welcome for web editing; try to use jpeg on the forum because loading your photo is a real pain... (424ko when it should not pass 100)

tech2000 · Post #53by **tech2000** » 24.10.2006, 23:27

Well, the clouds doesn't want to break up for the photo so I'll send this in the meantime. It's me balancing on my halfdone balcony with my, uhumm :roll:

, beautiful view. It really is beautiful when it clears up... I will post that picture asap.
Bye, Anders

Chuft-Captain · Post #54by **Chuft-Captain** » 25.10.2006, 10:33

And here's me...

He stood eight feet tall, as erect as a human on his short hind legs. The orange shade of his fur might have been inconspicuous to a Kzin's natural prey, but to human eyes it blazed like neon. He was thick all over, arms, legs, torso; he might have been a very fat cat dipped in orange dye, with certain alterations. You would have had to discount the naked-pink ratlike tail; the strangely colored irises, which were round instead of slitted; and especially the head, rendered nearly triangular by the large cranial bulge, more than large enough to hold a human brain.

Post #55by **ElChristou** » 25.10.2006, 23:41

Chuft-Captain wrote:And here's me...

Chuft, your avatar is cool but if you post a photo of you here, much better!

tech2000 · Post #56by **tech2000** » 28.10.2006, 02:17

This is one of my photo I shot in Valparaiso the last year (2005) and that is Vi?±a del mar in the background with its beautiful view...

Regards, Anders

julesstoop · Post #57by **julesstoop** » 23.11.2006, 17:52

Getting us back to the original subject :) And some self-advertising, of course.

I've just posted about 20 pictures from my hometown Leiden - original subject of this thread - in my flickr stream. The pictures were partly taken along the same route I walked with Chris when he came to visit Leiden.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/julesstoop/

The pictures from Leiden start with the observatory.

Post #58by **chris** » 23.11.2006, 18:03

julesstoop wrote:Getting us back to the original subject And some self-advertising, of course.

I've just posted about 20 pictures from my hometown Leiden - original subject of this thread - in my flickr stream. The pictures were partly taken along the same route I walked with Chris when he came to visit Leiden.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/julesstoop/

The pictures from Leiden start with the observatory.

Thanks for posting the photos. A lot of those places do look familiar, only it's less green than when I was there. Hopefully, I'll be visiting Leiden against soon.

--Chris

julesstoop · Post #59by **julesstoop** » 23.11.2006, 18:50

You wouldn't believe how long our summer has lasted this year. Only a few days ago parts of the country hit 20 degrees centigrade. About half of the trees are still bearing leaf.

In fact, this autumn is the warmest since we started recording data (about 300 years ago) The previous (mean temperature) record from 2005 is beaten by about 1,5 degrees(!).

See the red line, the black line is normal: