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Camper Negroni with Bombay Sapphire, Punt Y Mes, and Campari as a benchmark for a Ramazzotti Negroni later.

Deutschland double post.

You can't get good sober help these days. Sheesh. Emelius, did you start drinking at 9am? My time sense is screwed up here in Berlin, but my iPad is still on CA time and it seems you were posting at 9am eastern. Awesome beer selection, regardless. Further to my travel cocktail blog. The hotel Casa Camper, which is owned by e shoe company of the same name, has a 24/7 lounge with free food, soft drinks/coffee/etc., and an honor bar that you charge to your room by filling out little slips of paper. I will add pics if I can get Tapatalk to work but it is a nice setup with a decent selection of booze, cocktail equipment, lemon/lime, mixers and some beer and wine. I need to find an interesting Amaro Ramazzotti recipe but for now I decided to start simple and made a Classic Daiquiri with sugar, lime juice, and Havana Club 3yo light rum. Tasty and scurvy-preventing all at the same time!

Congrat to the newly wed Ian! Best of luck for a long and happy marriage!

Just recently watched Anzio and had forgotten his role in that one. Like Mike, The In Laws is a fave in addition to Columbo. Serpentine, Peter, serpentine.

Had a couple of Schwarzbiers with dinner in Berlin after a long haul to get here. Here are a couple pics of my airline mixology yesterday (the brand new Airbus A380 had no wifi ) Bombay on the rocks with some minis on the side: And then, Airplane Negronis!

Farmers who park hundreds of tractors on the freeway for days.

Official Travel Team luggage packed and loaded into car and boy picked up from school before learning that our flight was delayed two hours due to a labor strike in France. Had dim sum for lunch and wasted some time before heading to the airport. Now chilling in the lounge for another hour or so. The real impact is at the connection because we now leave four hours after our original departure. Oh well, we're on vacation and I'm having a Spaten so all is not lost.

Shovel beer in the petite Air France lounge at SFO. Practice for Germany.

Nice Marc! I'm having a Pliny but may an old fashioned is likely in my immediate future.

Thanks for the good wishes all, and for the travel pointers Grahame. Congrat on the empty nest Mike! Go wild this weekend but please no pics of hanging around the house naked.

Not sure who Walk Whitman is, but I think this guy was just referring to one of Wild Man's songs:

Unusual first post. I will follow your progress with interest.

You're not doing it right if the pot gets dirty.

A hard boiled egg and a Sharpee are all that you need for culinary hilarity!

I'm sure that bread is awesome, but I think it would be epic if you put an eyeball in that sphincter because it would look like a cyclops monkey!

I'm sure that bread is awesome, but I think it would be epic if you put an eyeball in that sphincter because it would look like a cyclops monkey!

He flew there, dammit! Sorry about the hell flight Stretch. Tomorrow we are flying as a family to Berlin but we're going business class and I am actually looking forward to the break.

His belly is actually pushing out of the guy's back.

This is worse. They are fancy nachos with some allegedly real cheese sauce, chicken and carnitas and multi-color chips. I would have preferred the velveeta kind. Yuck.

Imagine, if you can, that Jacob swallowed Birgir whole. A guy that looks an awful lot like that is sitting directly in front of me at the ball game. Given that the Giants gave up 8 runs in the first inning maybe nit being able to see the game ain't so bad.

Tecate with lime at the ball game. Not as bad tasting as the horrible, horrible nachos I got with it. Oh, and I forgot I drank a Widmer pale ale while waiting for the travesty nachos.

Not, not, NOT, NOT, not, WAT? Edit: nevermind, I seem to recall JP did not hear the reverb in his pair, which Deepak subsequently bought, and does not hear it in either. Not, not not hear.

I get the success pop-ups -- at least two of them per log-in -- but I rarely use Tapatalk now except to post iPhone pics because it is so easy. Also, I do not have the problem of the mobile interface appearing on my laptop/desktop computers after using it on my mobile devices.

It would have been a lot quicker for him to sew them on if she wasn't wearing the bikini at the time, but where's the fun in that?!