Ka Ora!

This ones for Lorna............


Drinks are on the House

Lorna at Vicenza

Thanks.

Bit early now for a drink but maybe I can get an orange juice and a croissant?

Ka Ora!

Orange Juice only comes with Tequila and Sunrise is always a good time to start

Lorna at Vicenza

I see this place has been busy since it opened ................

dmu

No doubt business'll pick up in a while, the bar's only been open a few days - we'll catch up with your Happy Hour attendance, you'll see!
It's a bit early, but I'll have a rosé du Languedoc, please, barman!

val50

well in that case make mine a double G&T
surprised cleri hasn't been around already, old soak that she is

Lorna at Vicenza

So is there a general time when aperitif time begins in France?

I used to go for a drink with our agents sometimes after leaving the office but it was any time really ... could have been 5, 6 or 7pm.

Well it's past 5pm now so that's good enough for me ... un petit blanc please barman.

val50

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So is there a general time when aperitif time begins in France?

breakfast time usually

Lorna at Vicenza

[QUOTE=val50;7951155] Sounds a bit like some of the old locals here that sip Grappa in the bar for breakfast and then move onto red wine whilst they have a round of cards.

Grappa for brekkie - uggghh - it's bad enough at the best of times !

Have a drink on me Val - or are they all still on the house ?

midwestowl

Well if you could stick a glass of red on the side for when i get there that would be v neighbourly, thanks barman.

Lorna at Vicenza

and I'll have some white tonight thanks. Had a very very nice one in Macon but can't remember the name of it.

dmu

Pouilly Fuissé? Solutré? Maybe I'll join you! (my OH's daughter used to live in Macon and Solutré, so our cellar was well stocked - note the past tense...).

In the past, the local vignerons here in the Hérault produced plonk, but a few do a nice Chardonnay now, not to mention the rosé.

Ka Ora!

I love to have a drink, But im on botics to shift this crappy dose of flu or cold I have

But fingers crossed I haven't started Flying or Snorting like a pig yet

Some one got H1N1 at our boys school, But the French will not close a school until 3 cases have come out in the same place

Lorna at Vicenza

Correct me if I'm wrong but I always thought that although huge amounts of alcohol are not advisable with antibiotics - alcochol is not completely prohibited. I have been told that a glass of wine or lager will not stop the antibiotics from doing their job - but they might make you feel a bit more pissed or drowsy.

This is NOT scientific research. This is just what I have heard in the bars here and the old locals that think Grappa is a medicine. All Italians are hypochondriacs anyway and most old local yokals wouldn't think twice of mixing medicine with grappa - after all - grappa cures all ails

val50

There are a couple of antibiotics that you really shouldn't take with alcohol - Metronidazde is one of them. Alchohol increases the rate drugs are excreted from the body or it could slow down the rate the drugs are absorbed.

After all that hard work I fancy a nice glass of Saumur Champigny please