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Post by elsanddee on Aug 14, 2004 20:00:33 GMT 1
Alsdoubles you crack me up, thankyou for the education, insight and usefull information you have provided. My wife has one eye on moving back to Croatia, but we are staying in blighty for the foreseable future. I am amazed at some of the English peoples remarks, at least Alsdoubles is there doing it.
Croatia is a varied and very different country in all parts. In the past ten years, it was always assumed, i was Iforce, by police, border guards, people in the street. No one thought i was a crazy tourist visiting my wifes family in Slavonski Brod. As on the coast all areas differ in attitudes and traditions. Please people keep an open mind, as Croatia continues its transition.
How daunting do think it is for a country of just 4.5 mio people, to be asended on by all these Brits and their demands. Yes there was tourism before but the stakes have now changed.
I, a Brit, was the last person my mother in law expected her daughter to bring home. They had an idea what i would be like from sitcoms they had seen on TV, my wife had a red book at school and was a member of Titos pioneers. She is part of the new generation, give the older generation a chance to catch, be patient.
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Post by alsdoubles on Aug 14, 2004 22:55:20 GMT 1
Alsdoubles you crack me up, thankyou for the education, insight and usefull information you have provided. My wife has one eye on moving back to Croatia, but we are staying in blighty for the foreseable future. I am amazed at some of the English peoples remarks, at least Alsdoubles is there doing it. quote] Bows down (but not on a prayer mat)...at a 'fan.' So glad I crack someone up. That's good. Isn't it? Croatia is okay...But, you have to 'be prepared.' I wasn't. Mother in laws and 'cousins' and extended cousins are omnipresent. They are......smug...'ish. I don't blame them. They appear to have 'something.' Have it all even. The people who brew 'the juha' are amazing! The Discovery chanel should do a special on them. Some of them are superb. The juhas and the ladies. But..are they happy. What is happy? Who cares eh. The drinks are great anhd cheap here. I've had some great sessions here. How many great sessions do you want, in a lifetime? |
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Post by elsanddee on Aug 14, 2004 23:24:09 GMT 1
alsdoubles, after cracking up after the last few mails on the croatian food thread, we decided to show our apretiation.We're going to our house in Pula in a few weeks, i'll let you know nearer the time,w'ell post a few tins of baked beans to you when we get there.
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Post by alsdoubles on Aug 15, 2004 22:32:45 GMT 1
w'ell post a few tins of baked beans to you when we get there. With a tin of heinz baked beans I would ask the finest champagne brewer in Croatia to prepare a special vintage. (The wife's cousin.) I'm not sure my taste buds would be able to handle it. I had grah...juha..bacon rib stew today, followed by road kill pork. It was...okay, to be honest. Pula. That'd be up north methinks...Not bee(a)n there. Amphitheatre....Plus concrete, no doubt. I wonder what Croatian is for 'ecky-thump.' Could you not possibly ship in vat of frozen vindalou sauce? |
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Post by elsanddee on Aug 15, 2004 23:10:41 GMT 1
oh ! sh~t just had a chicken shashlick, musroom baji, onion batha and popodoms. Last night it was chinese, i'm so sorry. Look i've been thinking , in Pula alone within a mile we have, Billa, Mercato, Plodina, Getro.
M8 how long will it be before they'll open up an Asda, they've got a curry and chinese counter.
My wife want to open a chinese resteraunt in Croatia. I'm english she's a croat, and we don't look chinese and i work for a bank. So i guess the answers may be pot noodles. they're light and easy to post and come in all flavours. Look Pula to Dalmatia- how much can postage be, i can send bake beans, but curry, maybe Petaks sauces from Tescos.
I forgot i had a full english breakfast today, yeah proper bacon, not the fat with a line of meat you get in Croatia.
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Post by alsdoubles on Aug 17, 2004 1:18:30 GMT 1
I forgot i had a full english breakfast today, yeah proper bacon, not the fat with a line of meat you get in Croatia. Tesco, Asda...These are religious extracts I reckon. Sainsbury...Morrisons, Safeway. Holy passages from the kora..(oh..can't say that, can I)...bible. Dalmatian Pancheta.....I completely ate out Jolly's in Sibenik of a half decent brand. And totally wiped out Konzum of a fair brand of beefbergers. Now all they have are vegetarian beefbergers. Why. Would they have vegetarian beefbergers in Croatia? I also tried, being kind to the wife, to save her the effort of cooking, a packet of fishfingers from Poland. I'm now using one of the fish fingers as an india rubber, for rubbing out crossword answers in the Daily Mirror so we both can do them. As fish they are...well, just NOT fish. But, all is not lost. Tonight a lady from next door invited us in for a 'speciality Italian. Which was a bloody fair rosotto thingy. She has also promised to knock me up a curry. (Her Italian job was superb). I'm optimistic. You have to be in Croatia, all the locals appear to have one hand on the trapdoor! |
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