Belgian Beer Review: Leffe Radieuse, originally uploaded by Chiva Congelado.
This is the last of the Leffe abbey beers available at my local supermarket. A dark, creamy, bitter ale with a fruity aroma and one of my personal favourites. If you don’t like strong tastes, avoid it.
Belgian Beer Review: Lindemans Pecheresse, originally uploaded by Chiva Congelado.
A fruity lambic beer with peach under and overtones. Interesting colour. Very sweet and not for those who don’t like fruity beers. This one is a favourite of some girls I know.
Belgian Beer Review: Westmalle Tripel, originally uploaded by Chiva Congelado.
This Trappist beer has a strong honey colour and aroma. Its flavour is very strong, but initially deceptively light and with hints of nice caramel. At the end of the tasting provides a strong kick at 9%.
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Belgian Beer Review: Brigand, originally uploaded by Chiva Congelado.
This beer has a very strong alcoholic taste (9%), too bitter for me, though. Nice colour, has been refermented in the bottle.
Today’s my 26th birthday. How am I going to celebrate? I frankly don’t know.
Funnily enough, it seems it will be a sunny day, which might be a first since usually my birthday is cloudy.
What do you do to celebrate your birthday?
I’ll share with you my family’s own home remedy against the common cold. Hope it is useful also for you. This recipe is for one person.
Ingredients
1 peeled raw garlic clove
2 tablespoons of honey
3 tablespoons of lime/green lemon juice
Cut the garlic in small pieces (crushing might be better). Mix with honey and lime juice. Drink immediately. Turn face away from loved ones.
Some people I know also have a small shot of tequila added to the mix (or on its own) under the premise “Si no se te quita, se te olvida” (if it doesn’t cure you, it’ll make you forget it).
Mexican media report today that the results of a gene mapping study of the Mexican population have been released. As expected, we are a mix of different ethnic groups (around 35) and in average about 65% of our genes are not of European, Asian or African origin (i.e. they are Native American), but the results tend to vary, with the highest incidence of European genes in the northern state of Sonora (58%) and the highest of African genes in the southern state of Guerrero (22%).
So, is science helping us answer the question of who are we, or not yet? 😉
An advertising campaing that shows that cultural differences are certainly not restricted to speakers of different languages, or languages other than English, “So where the bloody hell are you?” was a very controversial Tourism Australia campaign. Even though I like the ad, I find it really funny.
The worst part is that it seems to not have impacted the amount of visitors to Australia very much where it was aired.
A mis lectores hispanoparlantes: Es como si hicieran un comercial turístico de Venezuela y la Miss Universo al final le preguntara a la audiencia “¿Y dónde coño estás?”.
That is somethingI have come accross with a couple of times during my time here, the definition of what comprises the Western world varies widely depending on who you ask: some people will say that it’s only Anglo-Saxon North America and Western Europe, some people will include Eastern Europe, some will include Australasia, some Latin America and some all of the above.
Once, when having this discussion about East and West I asked a colleague at work regarding my belonging to said construct, and this person answered “Maybe you are, but I wouldn’t say that everyone in your country is”. Further expanding that thought, I started wondering what it is. If a country that follows Christendom to the extent of being the second largest Catholic country in the world, is also a heir to the Roman legal tradition and has the second largest amount of speakers of a Latin-based language in the world is not Western given that it also has a strong Native Amarican component, then I don’t know what the West it is.
Frankly, I think there is a confusion between the concepts of western, northern and developed countries, but that’s just me.
“I wonder how, I wonder why, yesterday I told you about the blue, blue sky, and all that I can see is just another lemon tea.”