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c.i. : outside our door is "cold ontario" - no more shorts for a few months around here - don't want to freeze my tender parts .
hbg

Was thinking your drink was in Hawaii (outside).

yes , it was taken in hawaii - unfortunately we don't have a "surfrider" hotel on lake ontario .
hbg

That looks great, hamburger!

But for us it will be 'Gluehwein' for some time now... :-)

Autumn can be green as well ... as we've noticed the other day



Turning around 180° gave this view, btw (and the acrual reason, why we visited this place :wink: )



Later, we had a coffee in the 'Glas Café' opposite - the reason for the name of it easily can be guessed when looking out of the window:

and i thought dumping cars was an absolute NO-NO in germany ?
in canada someone would quite possibly retrieve those wrecks and restore them as "antiques" :wink: .
farmers who have often left cars to rot in the fields , find that there are now often eager buyers hoping to find a "treasure" .
hbg

Oh that's how you dispose of your old cars, Walter.

is the green car a "trabi" ? i understand their plastic bodies are undestructible .
i even found a german car-rental website that offers "trabi" rentals .

here we are - don't they look "fab" ?

We (the ladies living in the house and I = all here) got together for coffee and cake this afternoon, in the neighbouring café. a belated birthday coffee meeting.



The ladies, btw, are 93, 84, 76 and ... ehem ... half a year younger than I am



Afterwards, they had the obligatory "joy maker" as the schnaps is called by the oldest

Those photos remind me of my visits to Germany, Walter. (Kaffee und Kuchen). That looks so typical German!

Doesn't it? And afterwards they start drinking Schnaps to digest the
cake with whipped cream

The women also remind me of my father's sisters in Duisburg, CJ. (My father had six sisters.)

i wonder if the little glasses being lifted by the ladies on the left contain underberg , jaegermeister or some "local equivalent" :wink: .
i'm sure the ladies are drinking it strictly for "medicinal purposes" :wink: .

reminds me of a bustour we took some years ago when in germany . turned out i was the only fellow on the bus - aside from the driver .
we had no sooner entered the autobahn when the ladies opened their - rather large - handbags and produced those litttle mini-bottles of "underberg " . it was taken only to prevent any possible onset of mal-de-mer - we were going to take a little cruise on the baltic sea after lunch . the ladies thought it would be prudent to repeat the "medication' a few times befor we actually embarked on the cruise .
we were glad to be offered the medication also - indeed , we did not get seasick !
hbg

UNDERBERG MOTTO :
"trinke ihn maessig aber regelmaessig !"
"to be drunk moderately but regularly"

With six sisters, your father practically had to leave town, wandel.

Oy hamburger, Underberg is downright nasty. It looks like the
ladies were drinking Schladerer or the equivalent thereof.

The following is not my photo, but I love the image of (swedish) schnaps there.
(Sorry it's not german schnaps.)

Satt, the Swedes mostly drink Aquavit, and boy is it strong, but I agree
it is a nice picture - the glasses are typical for a Finnish manufacturer.

I don't know from all you are talking about, except Jaegermeister, which I like, and which reminds me of the italian digestivos (different, of course, from the aperitivos).

I pulled out a bottle to copy the label... Averna, amaro siciliano, Speccialita' Assoluta. And then there's Fernet Branca.. These are bittery delights, but there's a range of non bitters.

Though I'll certainly agree swedish glassware is wonderful.

I love the style all the way to the right.

'Eversbusch', a Wacholder (gin) from Hagen.