travel tea set

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Mar 292010
 

The most amazing souvenir from China is my travel tea set. It allows me to cook tea in hotel rooms without having loads of tools and ingredients with me – in a small bag I have all what I need: 6 cups, a water cup, a tea cup and its lid. Just now I cooked some water, let it cool down a bit, washed the tea,
enjoyed the aroma, let it soak a bit and just had my first sip of the fresh brewed tea.

I have no idea what I am drinking, I suppose it is roibush tea
I got from Jimmy’s family. These – only Chinese labeled – tea bags are handy and small; they just contain loose leaves. It is far better that the instant teas and coffees offered by most of the hotels. Even when I like traveling a lot and take advantage out of the ease and
comfort of a full serviced hotel room I still need some few rituals and
items which make it less anonymous and less stereotype.

I bought a few weeks ago a travel water cooker too, after I decided never to touch one offered by a hotel again. These for mostly two reasons: internet guides how to cook / wash / do whatever using a water cooker and because I had one with a maintenance label (good!) which was dated to March 2008 (eew!).

So that’s 2 more items for my travel essentials for a trip taking longer than 3 days.

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Plane fails

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Mar 292010
 

Today I just flew out of Dublin – to be redirected back to Dublin after a couple of minutes – because of a broken door. Of course it couldn’t be worse, as I was supposed to pick up the “worldwide director of PS” in Heathrow to guide him savely through London to eventually get to Nottingham. Even better I can’t reach him on his mobile. Bad Monday morning!

Here my top 5 plane unexpected fails:
1. 2.5h being late because of a broken bulb in the cockpit which turned out not being broken, but the plane was. Departure after changing the plane.

2. 2h being late because of a plane not starting because there was a leak somewhere. After watching maintenance crew taking out and checking all bathroom components we eventually changed plane and departed.

3. Today’s fail: after 20 minutes in the air landing in Dublin again. Delay unknown (so far)

4. 30 min late after landing in Heathrow there wasn’t any gate available because of bad weather conditions, planes weren’t allowed to start. The captain solved this by “charming the ground crew” and getting a gate assigned.

5. 30 min late because not being allowed to start in Heathrow because the ground crew was required to chase a fox on the runway.

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German breakfast

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Mar 272010
 

After not being in Germany for almost four months I must say I didn’t miss much. I enjoyed being in Hong Kong, San Francisco and Bath; Washington and Oxford have been ok-ish. I didn’t really look forward to go in winter time to Munich, my trip started wrong and continued being horrible until I eventually get settled in the hotel room. I forgot everything when I saw the breakfast buffet that next morning: nothing can beat a german breakfast buffet!

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Frau Klein is sad…

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Mar 272010
 

recently a chat with line manager – no further comments and only the essentials of the chat:

Me: “Why can’t I go to Singapore again?”
Line Manager: “[..] But you can go to Reading instead.”

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German styled bread in Dublin

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Mar 272010
 

Last week I eventually got a bread baker – just to prove my desperation how crap the bread here in Ireland is. I got a Morphy Richard’s Fastbake bread maker – because it was the only one available in a local. A bread baker is another item I used to have in Germany, which I sold when I moved over and now I just bought it again – for 3 times the price. Ireland is so expensive.

I was looking forward to do a couple of breads immediately, especially as Morphy Richard’s ads told me a recipe book will be shipped with the machine. Which is true, but it contains only recipes for Irish and English breads. So each recipe contains skimmed milk powder, sugar and other ingredients which aren’t meant for bread. WTF?

The other WTF is the availability of different types of flour – we couldn’t find non-self raising rye flower in super value, tesco, spar or other markets. Eventually a polish supermarket had some different types of flour and fresh yeast. Unfortunately the cashier was Latvian so he couldn’t tell us the differences between the polish labeled flours also we lost trust when he recommended some overdue products.

Here my first recipe. The Hong Kong-ize Irish fellow didn’t like it… but he grew up outside central continental Europe ;)

I tried a round loaf without having half the ingredients or measures for the original recipe. So here what I got for a 1oz loaf:

  • 1 cup water
  • 40 g fresh yeast
  • 3 cups wheat flour type 500 (not self raising!)
  • a table spoon of white wine vinegar
  • 1.5 tea spoons of salt

I baked it as a normal bread with normal crust. I liked the out come and definitively go for version 2 tonight.

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