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Okay - I managed to get hold of some of this stuff from Touratech (took a mere three weeks to deliver)....
Wrote a quick review over at
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in summary - yuck.
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The Wine Fairy
I'd prefer to rely on the 'wine fairy'.
Staying in a campsite in Slovenia a couple of years ago I was enduring several days of heavy rain in a leaking tent. One damp morning I got up feeling pretty cheesed off, opened my tent and there was a bottle red wine and a note: "Greetings from the wine fairy. Enjoy your travels!"
No idea who it was from, it cheered me up no end! Have meant to do it in similar conditions for someone else ever since. No doubt the opportunity will arise one day!
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Quote:
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I'd prefer to rely on the 'wine fairy'.
Staying in a campsite in Slovenia a couple of years ago I was enduring several days of heavy rain in a leaking tent. One damp morning I got up feeling pretty cheesed off, opened my tent and there was a bottle red wine and a note: "Greetings from the wine fairy. Enjoy your travels!"
No idea who it was from, it cheered me up no end! Have meant to do it in similar conditions for someone else ever since. No doubt the opportunity will arise one day!
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Very cool - can I give you my camping schedule for this year?
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You-tube?
If ever there was a test that should have been filmed it was this one. Go, buy more and give us a full audio-visual treat as you and a selected bunch of wine ponces, sorry friends, give it a try.
Who knows perhaps like crotch-rot, it'll grow on you?
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If ever there was a test that should have been filmed it was this one. Go, buy more and give us a full audio-visual treat as you and a selected bunch of wine ponces, sorry friends, give it a try.
Who knows perhaps like crotch-rot, it'll grow on you?
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Seriously did consider filming it.... but being sick on camera is not something that I want to do again!
Might make a 5 min funny though....
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Namaqua Wines
Youre gonna need to carry the water for the powdered wine anyway, so maybe look at one of these
http://www.raisinsocial.net/brands/namaqua/
5l of wine ready mixed in water complete in a flexible bag.
Even makes a good pillow full or empty.
Plus on the bright side it actually is good drinking. In Africa known as a five-man-can. because on a good night, five men can!
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Originally Posted by Martynbiker
Now further on in the Wikipaedia it says that these drinks are marketed at the "Youth" Market...... what Teen ever follows the instructions? I can only see trouble 'brewing' here........what started life as a good idea (Campers, climbers, adventures etc) seems to have been turned to the teen market once again.... is that because they have more disposable income?
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There are only two ways it could go wrong with the teenagers.
Big party, mixed it with too much water and get a piss weak piss tasting drink.
Or straight from the bag to the mouth and instant drunkness and hangover and maybe dehydration...
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what happens when you eat it without any water
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The alcohol in the crystals require water to dissolve - I'm not sure if it would break down in saliva / stomach acids in the right way to release the booze - so I suspect what would happen is that you'd be sick very quickly - the stuff is hideous watered down I can't imagine what it's like neat!
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Our local supermarket (Intermarche) does a limited range of wines in 6 packs of 6x25cl screw top bottles for 6 euros. They are perfectly satisfactory and the same wine sold on the ferry is more expensive per litre sold as a 75cl full bottle..
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How long before some enterprising bugger tries it straight up the nose...?
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they do the stuff in my local 'cotswold camping' if anyones interested, its part of that wayfarer range of MREs i think. their food is generally palatable if expensive so i dont know why they thought this crap was a good idea
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How long before some enterprising bugger tries it straight up the nose...?
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That is funny, bloody funny.
nearly as funny as this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kreG5FTsGwQ
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Tut, Tut, Tut
All you uncivilised types hacking round the world on too few wheels
The contents of ThreeWheelBonnies top box:
Gin, Dutch, 0.75L
Tonic, Canned. 4 x 0.25L
Cocktail shaker filled with cocktail sticks
Cherries, Glace, 1 jar
Olives, green, stuffed, one jar
Vodka, Polish, 25cl
Curacoa, 25cl (for guests only, that not only looks like brake fluid.....)
Brandy, cheap, 0,75L
Cointreaa, 2x 25cl (so you can make, of course, a Sidecar )
Brown sugar, 3 packets, stolen from hotels
Limes, fresh, 2
The wine lives in the nose of the chair where I calculate the temperature to be superior. The glasses (wine & highball of course) go whereever they are easy to get at should the cocktail hour approach quicker than expected.
You'll be telling me next you don't have a proper tea pot with you
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blimey, its "pimms o'clock" when you turn up mate!
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