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What a fabulous thread! Different place, time of year, different wine, different type of person - different music. Champagne and Maurice Chevalier: "Girls Girls Girls Girls Girls." Seems appropriate. Burgundy is a terribly serious wine; people can come to blows over it... I'm not sure I'd drink Burg...

Love this thread; detest "The Prince" I'm afraid. I recall when the thread first came up I hung back to see where it would head - probably because of the appearance of "The Prince." Reminds me of anything Ayn Rand-ish being suggested... It's just so-o-o-o hard for me to put out there stuff I really ...

Yes well I have to declare an interest here...! Hello Caldwell. I cannot with very sound knowledge comment on the situation in the UK, but one of the most important factors for this kind of thing is how supportive the government - local and national - is of shooting and hunting. I CAN, however, say ...

The Gauloise brand is still manufactured in Spain using dark Turkish tobacco. And the very underrated small Henri Wintermann's uses an excellent and well-aged tobacco. Smokers of quality cigars will not speak poorly of the small Wintermann's. This is an interesting point about the second half of a c...

I suppose I might add though, that I personally enjoy other people's good dress sense, or even style sensibilities. Rodes, you did ask about 'primary' motivation, and therefore, if I apply the question to myself, then, indeed I primarily dress for my own desires and requirements. I get a lot out of ...

Good question - more especially since you point out that we are social beings. Yes we are social beings but for myself - I find that deep down I have difficulty really abiding too closely within the society of those I perceive as having problematic ways of thinking, or disharmonious personalities, o...

I am very grateful, ChrisR. Initially I thought 'nah, couldn't be,' but just as quickly thought, 'well hang on, the fella DID look like that and with the same laconic style...' I haven't yet been able to fully research it, and, you can tell from the time it takes me to respond, that I have a lot goi...

Thanks for the reply, AB. I'd be very very surprised if it wasn't a British production. From memory there was hardly any dialogue in it at all - just the fellow and his little sportscar driving down some long winding back roads in Europe. I wish I could even remember the name of the series: it may h...

Hmn. ...I have done little things inside movie productions, once upon a time. I think I was (much though I ought not to say so) the best dressed person around the place at the time, all the same, much was being made by the producers (whom I knew very well) of the clothes and the on-staff personal gr...

Yes. Elaborate. Good point. Maybe this is a detail that all first class trains make a point of... A real standout on the Australian First Class transnational train that I went on was the menu and indeed, it was more elaborate than I have found is generally common in Australian professional food virt...

Hello Simon. Nice to hear a reply like that. You do indeed explain the landscape and flora very well. Even though it is for such a short time, the wildflower season here, providing you are ushered into its wonders by someone with the eye to point out its microscopic details, is for some, one of the ...

Mmn. Concur. I have been on the Eastern & Orient (KL to Penang) and on the Indian Pacific and the Ghan in Australia and they are certainly outstanding experiences. I suppose I should add that I mean I travelled First Class; in case of any potential for misundertanding. Whilst the journey on the Indi...

For years I have been looking for any indication of the very existence(!) of this old thing... There was a very calm quiet-ish series of twenty minute long travelogues involving one older fellow and his open-top Triumph Spitfire motoring around Europe, down backroads and a few main highways. Any rec...

Ah.

Though I see there is some wiggle room through the use of the words 'generally,' and 'tendency.'

...A gathering including John Polidori and Matthew Lewis over ten days at some infamous poet's estate, perhaps?

And here I was thinking this was going to be about something REALLY transgressional! ...However. Well, I'm not so sure these things are irreconcilable. I understand that even professional chocolate tasters reach a point where they cannot derive any pleasure or enjoyment from what they are tasting; e...