Drink / Sail

[LadyInBed]

There was a short item on You and Yours (BBC R4) today asking sailors from the RTI race for views.
They also asked for 'listeners' views - so now is your chance!!
The 'listen again' facility will be available on Saturday I guess.

 

[duncan]

a classic example of a hugely relevant audience!

from my experiences.......

1. get lashed the night before; couldn't face a drink on the way round
2. recover just as we arrive in time for another session!

 

[Athene V30]

You and Yours

Mines a double, thanks!! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Twister_Ken]

Never mind you and your's. Mine's a large Drambuie.

 

[trouville]

Drinking and sailing is impossiable.I went into Holland by bike a few days ago after lunch,when id finished asking to powers that be (a lock keeper)if a licence is needed and how much you have to pay to pass each lock i went off to a cafe

In Holland no one drinks wine?I was offered a bier,which seemed drinkable,one led to another,then they told me that i had to try geneva (turned out to be Dutch gin)one glass of bier one glass of geneva

By 11pm i remembered i had to get back to the boat in Belgium.I was helped to unlock my bike off i went next thing i remember were two policemen one holding me the other my bike they were asking me where i lived but i coulent answer words just wouldent form in any language

They took me to a police station where i spent the night in prison!But with an open door next morning they gave me a cup of tea and when they discovered i was not Dutch warned me of the danger of drinking bier and gin.Thinking of Stella i asked if i could stay another night!!I couldent.

Drinkings very bad i couldent have got aboard let alone sailed anywhere!When i got back Stella listed all my faults weaknesses which went on all afternoon.my head felt dreadful i felt ill all i could do was sit in the cockpit under the rain awning and listen

That evening i made up my bad ways by promising not to enter Holland and by going to a walm dry cafe where we ate not bier soup but roulades d asperges a l ardennaise followed by oie a l instar de vise we drank proper French wine.I began to feel beter

Belguim is a sort of paradise!They speak French not some odd sort of German they eat real food (very very good better even than that in todays France) in Holland they eat fried rice with egg bits or dead chickin bits with a chemical goo tasteing of peanuts and the locks have to be paid.I cant understand why the Dutch waterways and everywhere else has so many people liveing there

Anyway i just cant see how anyone COULD drink and sail,or do anything else come to that!!I wount drink dreadful alcohol again ever.I will stick to good French wine only,even the waters bad in Holland to much cyanide from the gassing of the land used to grow flowers and food!I added Dutch salad and tomatoes to my list of what not to eat years ago!

 

[suse]

"but i coulent answer words just wouldent form in any language"

you are just the funniest man I think I've ever not met!!!! That is SUCH a funny story.. And the Belgians will laud and praise you for ever for saying their country is a sort of paradise!

{{{{{{{{Trouville}}}}}}}}

S x

 

[trouville]

Their really great people not sure about the woman though? Or in general,Stella was talking to some Belgium woman(woman always seem to get on toghether)they told her their husbands sometimes vanish for a few days reterning with a bad hangover.They also suggested ways to deal with their men???Im told but not what.Oh well ill just stay with good wine which is in abundent supply!!

Im not sure about winters up hear im told there can be snow??!!The canals are wonderful the cafes are wonderful the shops are wonderful the woman other than the ones Stella talks to,are wonderful,today at long long last the weather is almost wonderful
In a moment im going to have soupe a la biere douce then maquereaux a la flamande with a bottle of good white wine from the anjou (umm very good)

Today being the months end bier soup and macrel seemed suitable give the extent of my financial challenge.Tomorrow will be better again but thats how the economicaly challenged must live today while the unchallenged are in the med for summer.Mind you i dont mind being hear a bit!!Its really wonderful,i cant think of a place id prefer to be desperatly badly off in when the suns out and Stella isent angry with me!

Just had the bier soup first time ive ever tried it its thickish has a bier flavor with lemon and spice flavor its realy quite nice,i may even have it again when im not so poor!!

 

[Superstrath]

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Drinking and sailing is impossiable.

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Silly man Trouville. All you've managed to establish is that, for you, drinking and CYCLING is impossiable.
I've been stopped by the 'bules for that, although I managed to pass attention onto Mrs S on that occasion and got away with it, more or less.

Actually, drinking Dutch Gin and doing anything is pretty much impossible, I should imagine. More experimentation is required. The constabulary might keep the cell open for you if they knew you were conducting a serious experiment in nautical safety, on a bike, in a bar. I must try that excuse sometime.

 

[trouville]

no!Experimentations out of the question.The Duch police although very gentil and helpful made it very clear,while i thankfully drank my very good tea they provided,that if i was again found in a heap on the ground somewhere there could well be a question of parting with money on my part.
They did say that as i hadent been sick (after they found me on the bridge)and that i had been very quite and the cell was clean when i left plus i wasent Dutch and wasent staying in Holland i was lucky.That time.

With that and Stella there will be no more awful bier or Dutch gin just good French wine as always.
As for the bike well it just fell under me and that was that untill i was woken up but i cant imagin how anyone could cross a gang plank thats in two places and moveing.As the bridge was.To get aboard.

 

[Superstrath]

Perseverance Trouville! Drinking doesn't come naturally, you know, you have to work at it. You'll never know how good you could be at it without a bit of effort.

 

[duncan]

couldn;t have put it better..............

brilliant /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[trouville]

I know!! I gave up drinking many years ago when the water in Spain was not quite up to scratch! The toilets ashore wernt either,then i added wine to my filtered water 20*ç%&/()=??`+" (i cant find the percent key on this French/Italian keyboard)

20 perdent water to the rest brandy and wine what ever was free or cost less

today i dont drink apart fron good French wine,the last week was a relaps!I never crink bier as a rule.Time flyes bye seems only yesterday there wasent the eec haveing to justify their existance and i thought i could become a fisherman later on

 

[duncan]

I think you will need significant;y more dringing experience to survice as a fisherman.........and I can't afford to only drink good French wine - yet!