Hey, Weizen! Howza 'bout posting some pics, bub?

[ghost of miles]

Our friend Weizen recently went on a European vacation, but so far he has zealously hoarded for himself all of the neat pictures that I'm sure he snapped while abroad. C'mon, man, share the photographic goodies!

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

The Red Menace

Posted on Nov 26 2004, 02:05 PM

Yes, comrade Weizen, you will please to make with the tantalizing digital photographs of my beloved Old Europe, as they say!!!

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Red!! Come back! Where have you gone and disappeared to now???

Well, it was either the Armenian Navy Band or Bratislava, so we bolted to the Slovak capital in search of your old political intriguemeister, Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI), who manned the consulate from '48 'till he was tossed out on his ear. B-)

Once you break through the band of soviet-era concrete housing monstrosities that hem in the train station, one finds that Bratislava has quite the scenic old quarter....beautiful place to stroll. They're doing a nice job restoring the place and things are looking pretty darned good.....yet plenty of rough edges and not a golden arch in sight! But the clock is ticking and it's only a matter of time before it'll be Pragified....so Red, sell all the mouldy fig Mosaics and those old KGB cloth patches of yours on eBay and cruise on in within the next 5 years before the window slams shut and Col. Sanders is staring you in the eye!

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[Christiern]

Great photos, Weizen--old Europe being what it was, I felt a tinge of homesickness. The brass guy checking things out from the manhole is wonderful, I saw one very similar bit of whimsy in Stockholm.

How was the beer?

[couw]

nice pics indeed, thanks for sharing.

so, how was the beer indeed?!

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

Quite a tasty lager called 'Kelt'. I think the folks at Heineken have moved through and sunk their hooks into the local brewery.

[couw]

A decent lager called 'Kelt'......I think the folks at Heineken have moved through and sunk their hooks into the local brewery.

ah, it wasn't Bud? they have been buying up breweries in central Europe like toys some years back. many of them were closed a couple of years later. strange strategy to sell beer.

[ghost of miles]

Holy smokes, is that DEEP?

Edited November 26, 2004 by ghost of miles

[Guy Berger]

Man, I wanna go to Europe. Though I guess a couple of days in Southern California aren't a bad substitute...

Guy

[skeith]

ah, it wasn't Bud? they have been buying up breweries in central Europe like toys some years back. many of them were closed a couple of years later. strange strategy to sell beer.

Maybe not Couw,

If you are Bud, you sure don't want any of those good tasting european beers around embarrassing you.

[connoisseur series500]

Who wouldn't want to revisit (or visit) Europe? But now with the dollar/euro exchange stacked against us...

[Use3D]

Cool!

[couw]

If you are Bud, you sure don't want any of those good tasting european beers around embarrassing you.

that's true.

Budìjovice was in a sad state when I was there some years ago. The local brewery was closed, instead they sold beer imported from America at one of the local bars. WTF?!

Some dissappointed locals told their woes and those of Kumpels elsewhere in the country and abroad suffering from the same corporate strategy.

Thinking about it, I believe that Weizen is right and that Heineken was indeed involved in some "projects" as well.

[Christiern]

A few years back, I went to a highly recommended, "trendy" French restaurant in London. The food was indeed excellent, but they only served Almaden (California) wines!