Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I would be glad to chat racing over a pint or two! I have only been involved for 40 years so I am not bored yet. Let me know if you are North Wales or Oxfordshire way. cheers, Frank On 26 Feb, 2010, at 10:40, Marc Thomas wrote: > I've never visited the fort, the nearest I ever got was wet weekends > rewiring old aircraft at Caernarfon airport! > If you like the more floral hoppy beer styles I'm confident you will like > the Mws Piws or the Roosters. > I would love to buy you a pint or six but I'd probably bore you to death > talking about my all time favourite sport.... > I suppose you get that all the time. > We could talk about cameras instead. > Cheers > Marc > Frank Dernie wrote: >> I was in Beaumaris last week to meet my new (Mk3) grandson for the first >> time. Our daughter settled there 8 years ago and we holiday there often. >> I will check out the Porthmadog brewery next time I am there. Kirsty had >> her wedding reception at Fort Belan on the mainland overlooking the >> straights. It was the first reception held there and was beautiful, >> though the weather was not good on the day, sadly. >> Frank D. >> >> On 26 Feb, 2010, at 08:30, Marc Thomas wrote: >> >> >>> A good attempt at remembering how to spell Blenau Ffestiniog ! Its only >>> Welsh speaking Welsh men ,like me, that can remember how to spell it! >>> As for Brian's Porter, I'm not familiar with that brewery, perhaps you >>> meant Brains ? (a popular South Wales brewery) >>> After viewing the picture I have to say it looks too light for a porter, >>> I'd say it was a bitter. >>> By the way my favourite brewery in Wales is located at the end of the >>> narrow gauge railway in Porthmadog, Bragdy Mws Piws or the Purple Moose >>> Brewery, its almost as good as my all time favourite brewery >>> Roosters/Outlaw in Knaresborough. >>> So good I moved from Wales to a small village within ten miles of the >>> brewery....hic... >>> >>> If I was organised enough here would be a link to a picture of me >>> drinking too much Roosters/Mws Piws >>> Cheers! >>> Marc >>> //Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: >>> >>>> Daughter Karen is enjoying a glass of Brian's Porter at the town's >>>> oldest >>>> pub in Blainau Ffestiniog, Wales. Blainau Ffestiniog was the center of >>>> the >>>> Welsh slate mining industry in the 19th century and gets more rain than >>>> any >>>> other town in the UK. A narrow gauge railroad connects it to Porthmadog >>>> on >>>> the coast. You are not expected to remember how to spell these names. >>>> As I >>>> recall, the beer was served at room temperature and it was very good. >>>> >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Karen+with+beer.jpg.html >>>> >>>> An interesting note on the picture. It was taken with my first >>>> experimental >>>> digital camera, an Agfa ePhoto 307. The camera was about the size of an >>>> M3 >>>> but weighed much less. It took 35 pictures with its fixed focus lens, >>>> allegedly high resolution (180 MB), and stored them on an internal >>>> memory. >>>> When all pictures were taken, they had to be downloaded or deleted >>>> before >>>> more could be snapped. I bought the camera in 1995 and it was obsolete >>>> just >>>> a year or so later. We have come a long way in a couple of decades. >>>> >>>> Larry Z >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information