Monday Night and still no internet! Grrr. The team is getting pretty disgruntled. No way to communicate to family from the hotel except through phone calls. Everyone seems to be resigning to the fact it’s the only way to stay in touch now. We have resorted to preparing our blogs in advance and cutting and pasting them when we get to the university….where we get to enjoy the internet although at a much slower speed than we are used to.
This is photo was taken at another local restaurant where it’s no problem to drink wine; The trick comes later. Firstly, describing what kind of wine you want (a challenge translating “dry red wine – the good stuff” into Swahili). Secondly, having a glass to drink the wine from…ok this one we are flexible on – when desperate your standard water glass will suffice. Next you have to be patient and wait for whoever got told to hire a taxi and find a place where they sell wine. Finally, the longest waiting period comes with figuring out how to take the cork out of the bottle. Its amusing how the DIY (do it yourself) characteristics start emerging. This is a photo of me using your standard Philips screwdriver with a 11/2 inch screw as step one in the new cork removal process. Handy man Dan went to get various other tools to see how we could apply some leverage to the bottle. Suffice it to say your standard bottle opener did not work as did not various other random tools he found in the restaurant bar. When Dan broke the scissors the DIY session ended and we had to relinquish the bottle….the liquid substance we hoped was wine
came back with the cork in the bottle. The next trick was figuring out how to pour the wine without getting the cork stuck back in the neck of the bottle….a good dose of perseverance was required this night. By the time we poured the bottle we knew the request of “dry red wine – the good stuff” was lost in translation. Of course, we drank it anyhow.
This is photo was taken at another local restaurant where it’s no problem to drink wine; The trick comes later. Firstly, describing what kind of wine you want (a challenge translating “dry red wine – the good stuff” into Swahili). Secondly, having a glass to drink the wine from…ok this one we are flexible on – when desperate your standard water glass will suffice. Next you have to be patient and wait for whoever got told to hire a taxi and find a place where they sell wine. Finally, the longest waiting period comes with figuring out how to take the cork out of the bottle. Its amusing how the DIY (do it yourself) characteristics start emerging. This is a photo of me using your standard Philips screwdriver with a 11/2 inch screw as step one in the new cork removal process. Handy man Dan went to get various other tools to see how we could apply some leverage to the bottle. Suffice it to say your standard bottle opener did not work as did not various other random tools he found in the restaurant bar. When Dan broke the scissors the DIY session ended and we had to relinquish the bottle….the liquid substance we hoped was wine
came back with the cork in the bottle. The next trick was figuring out how to pour the wine without getting the cork stuck back in the neck of the bottle….a good dose of perseverance was required this night. By the time we poured the bottle we knew the request of “dry red wine – the good stuff” was lost in translation. Of course, we drank it anyhow.
"...Of course, we drank it anyhow"
ReplyDeleteAnother classic line Denise. You may have a future as a writer.
Who needs the internet when you have wine?
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