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This is the second last of my Butiki teas and I hadn't opened it until today as I am trying to be more aware of what teas are on the go and how long they've been sitting about. My first impression of this is that it looks like yarn. There are more golden leaves than black, and it is fuzzy and downy (again, like yarn!)
Steeped, it is sweet and light, lacking the boldness I expected from the initial aroma. Based on scent I expected it to be similar to the Taiwanese Assam but this is different altogether. I am not getting the expected cocoa initially, but as it cools I get some cocoa sense. It is not very powerful but it's there.
For me, this one almost doesn't have enough flavour. I'll try again with more leaf or water and report back if anything changes dramatically. I'm sure I can do better than this as this cup is a bit lacklustre.
This is one of five samples of Taiwanese oolongs provided to me for review by Teavivre. Green oolongs aren't really in my repertoire, but I am carefully following the guidelines to see if brewing them to Teavivre's specs makes a difference. I am using 7 grams of tea in a 3 ounce gaiwan with 95 degree water. The dry leaves are curled and twisted, a muted jade green and smelling slightly floral and reminiscent of hay.
After a quick rinse, the first steep is 30 seconds and smells like sweet corn. TV dinner corn, according to the beau. It is a light yellow liquor, with a mild floral taste, that sweetness is still very strong but I get a note of spice like a hint of cinnamon or ginger in a sweet molasses cookie. The beau says he doesn't get much taste but I find this tastier than I expected. There is no bitterness at all and the flavour that is there is very strong and echoes after the sip.
Steep 2 at 30 seconds is a bolder yellow with similar aromas to the first. The flavour is stronger here, greener. I think of peaches at first, and then more of boiled vegetables after the sip. This is closer to astringent but not quite there.
The leaves are HUGE now and are nearly spilling out of my gaiwan. Getting water in there is about to become a challenge. The leaves are mostly whole, with about 75% or more the leaf intact on the few that were broken. There are some sticks in there which don't need to be but they don't take away from the flavour.
Steep 3 at 35 seconds makes my fingers hurt! I spilled a bit on the second steep and now the heat of the gaiwan is stinging more quickly. This is tea making for the tough! :) Again I have a warm yellow liquor that smells of sweet corn, tasting less sweet than before and more of boiled greens than anything else. Again, we are getting closer to astringency. I would prefer to have a bit of that floral sweetness back, maybe in the next steep?
Side note: I do like the smaller three ounce gaiwan Teavivre sent with the teas as it allows me to drink the tea quickly and not have to re-boil the kettle constantly. I also poured the liquor off into another cup and used it as a sharing pitcher so the beau and I had the same flavours in each cup. AND I watered my tea pet. I feel like a rockstar.
4th steep at 45 seconds has finally developed some astringency. It feels like my tongue and throat are dry and I don't like that. I seem to be losing most of the flavour here. Now the sweetness is gone and so is that nice spice note. I just get boiled greens and a dry mouth. Definitely not a fan of this steep. The beau likes this steep the best so far, saying it's "like a high quality green but without that grassy spinachy taste." He also says it's very smooth. Are we even drinking the same tea?
Supper is ready now, so steeps 5+ will have to wait. I don't think I would drink this for pleasure after it's gone simply because I prefer darker roastier teas but it does seem to be good quality. If you are into green or unroasted oolongs, check this one out. I might have gone awry in my steeping to make that astringency come out, though I was quite careful with time and temp.
EDIT to add: The beau gives this an 80 or an 85. His favourite steep was the fourth where I loved the first with the spice note and sweet floral. Different strokes for different folks. I think he is taking the rest of the sample to work. :) Thanks Teavivre!
Whoops. I got this one quite a while ago and tried it and thought I reviewed it. Obviously not, as I discovered when I came here to see what my thoughts were back then. I have tried a few more puerh in the interim and find myself enjoying shu more than sheng, for now at least. I want to love puerh as it seems like the next logical step for a black tea lover like myself but sometimes I strain to find the flavours that others get – I seem stuck at wet wood and barn. Enjoyable, but hardly full of nuance.
Today I steeped this up with the beau after failing to see Thor (they sold out while we were in line!) and a delicious supper of ginger chicken. I ate too much and am hoping that pu will work it's magic and keep my tummy happy.
I steeped this in a pot for convenience rather than gongfu style, but it still came out fairly well. I was afraid of accidentally making it too potent so I went a bit lighter on the leaf (one heaping "perfect" teaspoon at 2.5 minutes). This made just enough for each of us to have one cup and it was pretty darn good. The aroma at first was much like the dry leaf, with the wet wood, hay and leather aromas I associate with puerh. The taste had a bit of that at the start but in the aftertaste there was a lingering sweetness and it was very clean with no bitterness. I probably could have pushed it a little more on time or leaf, but this was a really easy drinking cup and it stood up to the western style brewing very well. I look forward to trying it in different ways.
With the disappointment of the winter and holiday teas for me on the weekend I decided to dig out my tin of Santa's Secret from last year. Or maybe the year before. Doesn't matter, still tastes good.
This one if as good as I remember, a decent black base with no bitterness and a gentle mint and vanilla as well. The aroma is the best part of the drink, with coworkers commenting on the lovely smell. The taste is nearly as good though as the cup cools I tend to develop a bit of bitterness. I think that I need to remember to add a bit of extra mint for my tastes in future but this is one that I still recommend to mint fans. Glad it's back so I can re-stock when the old stuff is gone. Yay!
Now this one I expected to love, considering my adoration of mint and fondness for white chocolate. Unfortunately it turned my tummy, and does not make me a happy camper. It tastes exactly as you'd expect, the white chocolate comes through VERY strongly with the mint merging fairly smoothly, but for possibly the first time ever it tasted more like toothpaste than mint to me. The chocolate is actually too strong and the cloudy tea with a film on top coupled with the brain confusion of the taste makes my tummy unhappy. I will try again to use up the rest of the sample, but this is not a re-buy.
To be fair, for years chocolate teas made my stomache upset and some of them still do. I thought I was over it but it has started getting worse – Chocolate Chili Chai is RIGHT OUT and this one is almost as bad. Maybe it is the peppercorn and chocolate mix? I dunno, but I wish it were different. I really wanted to like this one!
Maybe I should start listening to my taste buds and stick to unflavoured black tea – but that gives me heartburn when I drink a couple cups a day. Darn you, body!
EDIT: There's stevia. Of course there is. Stevia makes my tummy angry as well, probably because I don't tend to sweeten my teas so having them sweetened for me tastes awful. Even blueberry jam which I enjoy can turn me off sometimes from the stevia. Darn you, Davids! You finally relaxed on the coconut, but now you're mad for stevia!
Hubby and I picked up some of this one yesterday while indulging in a day of treats. Haircut, record store sale, leftover Halloween candy, new clothes – and most of it on discount or gift cards, yay! Then groceries, homemade beef stroganoff, some GTA V online and tv shows before an extra-long sleep. Today is reading, chili making and relaxing all around. Maybe a game of Doctor Who themed Monopoly? Great weekend!!
Anyway, this is one I was interested in but not holding a lot of hopes for because after 3 or 4 years of drinking tea I am finally finding myself disenchanted with rooibos and honeybush blends. Nonetheless, we gave it a go. It is actually pretty tasty, and does much better at lukewarm than hot BUT it is not gingerbread. This is molasses cookies, guys. Gingerbread is a ginger pow with a hint of molasses. Molasses cookies are the opposite and that is what we have here. I want more ginger flavour, and it is sorely lacking. Very sweet and accurate on the molasses though, so that is something. If they had named this correctly I think I would like it a bit more but as it is I don't see myself buying more.
Hot tips: drink this lukewarm or cold for the best taste, and don't expect much by way of ginger and you'll be a happy chappy. For once, the beau and I both had the exact same taste results.
My husband won the Oolong sampler from Teavivre in their recent giveaway and it finally arrived on Friday. Therefore, new tea! Whee! He was obsessed with trying this one first because he loves the idea of monkeys picking tea. He was very disappointed to learn that it is highly unlikely that a monkey touched these tea leaves, but he got over it.
I am not much of a Tie Guan Yin fan but hubby is, so between us we should have a balanced review. I still don't care for greens or green oolongs but I sometimes see the appeal. This is actually being paired with a fairly brisk breakfast of scrambled eggs with vegetables so hopefully it doesn't get too lost.
I followed the Western style instructions from Teavivre's website and steeped the 7 gram packet at 100C for one minute. This yielded a light smelling liquor that has what I think of as a fairly typical TGY taste. It verges on being astringent but it doesn't really develop. I was worried about the boiling water, but it does work. I am not getting any of the peaches and cream I usually get from this sort of tea but I don't know if these leaves aren't like that or if the water muted the flavours. This is a perfectly enjoyable cup though. Lightly sweet, nothing grassy or "green."
The second steep at 2 minutes tastes much the same. The hubby says it is like a light green, and doesn't find much of a difference between the two. He seems a little disappointed but I reminded him that gongfu would have given him a bigger variety of flavours but we were lazy. Ah well. :)
Will report on further steeps later. For now, it is groceries and then a return to GTA V and reading and crosswords and Supernatural and tea and lovely Sunday afternoons at home.
GTA V, reading, crosswords, Supernatural AND tea?
Wow. That sounds like a very lovely afternoon. I tried to get my other half to watch Supernatural with me (I just started S1 and am on episode 13 now – long way to go!) but it's just not his thing. So he plays GTA V while I watch on the tablet. It works. :P
And I have this tea – I'll have to see if I find it as mild as you did. I bought the samplers because I wanted to learn more about oolongs and how to compare them!
We have been together since teenager-hood and share a lot of common interests. I had him buy me GTA V the day it came out and we have been squabbling over whose turn it is since then. We also have seen all of Supernatural already but love it so much we wanted to start at the beginning. Again! It was a good day. :)
Wow. I LOVE black currant flavoured things and have asked Davids off and on for over a year to make a good black currant tea. When cocoberry came out I was excited and then horrendously disappointed. When I contacted customer service to share my belief that cocoberry was an abomination they consoled me with the promise of currant affair. With that in mind, I bought a 50 gram bag on faith that a tea with so few ingredients couldn't possibly go wrong.
For once, I was very right. I steeped this 5 minutes with a hefty amount of leaf and while hot this was a beautiful currant tea with just the right level of sweetness. Unfortunately it become overwhelmingly sweet as the cup cooled BUT I think that was a factor of over-leaf and over-time. This is one that doesn't need a lot of time or leaf to become a really powerful brew. Others may like the cooler cup best but as someone who doesn't sweeten her teas, it is a bit much.
In general though, I love this. I am already considering getting more to have an at home and at work stash. I did have a few coworkers complaining of a weird smell though so I might have to take the work stash home. :( Two thumbs up for a currant tea done right!
its so good!… they haven't wowed me with a tea in quite some time… i've liked some of their new ones, but haven't loved anything enough to buy more than like 25g of it… this one is great :) .. i never got to try cocoberry because it has mango in it, but i haven't heard anything good about it!
Oh my god, this tea is amazing. THIS is what I wanted every time I opened up a new Butiki tea. I wanted to love them as unwaveringly as so many on here do. So far, only the Ruby Pie has been a re-buy for me but this tea is fantastic. I always thought I didn't like assam. Clearly I just had the wrong ones. This is caramel and cocoa and honey and rich but not bitter with a wonderful lingering smoothness that has a sweet edge like I've had some premium chocolate.
I tend to fall hard for Chinese blacks but this has a caramel sweet note that I may not have ever experienced in another tea. Especially in contrast with the disaster that was my previous tea of the day, this is phenomenal. I can only hope that future cups taste as good as this, because this is nectar of the gods right now. I don't tend to rave about a tea, but this one deserves it. A+! This could usurp Black Dragon Pearls as my favourite black tea.
Now to keep slurping. And re-steeping. And slurping some more. Mmm!
This might be a new record, 12 ingredients AND natural and artificial flavouring. It does include black currants though which I adore so I am giving it the old college try. Initially, the aroma is very pleasing and berry-ish but then I get the bitterness of the coffee bean coming through, combined with the mate which also lends a bitter note.
Steeped for 5 minutes (Whoops!) this has an aroma very similar to the dry tea. Unfortunately I am at work and was called away on rushes so it has cooled half an hour before my first sip. I am a bit leery of the multiplicity of smells and presumably tastes in this one, but I persevere! This is lukewarm at best and tastes like smoky coffee to me. No berry, no anything. Arguably this would be a very mild coffee but I don't drink coffee. Ever. Gross. The smoke is staying in the back of my throat and trying to choke me. I gave it a second sip but I can't give it any more. This is disgusting. Yuck.
I actually just contacted DT to say how disappointing this tea was. That is something I have never done before but this was gross!
thats good lol.. maybe if they hear from enough disapointed fans, they will go back to the way they were.. rather than bring out all these new weird teas all the time, i'd like to see them go back and bring back some of their amazing 'retired' blends!
I've been drinking DT teas for three years and not a whole lot has changed, though I do see more straight teas disappearing again. There have always been 5 new seasonal teas and a year ago or more they started the tea of the month. Teas have to go sometimes as well, but I wonder how they decide which ones to ditch. There have been a couple that were retired that I adored but most of them were meh for me. I would like to see them step away from the coconut and try a few more simplistic blends to really captivate a flavour rather than assault the senses. I buy my straight teas elsewhere but do still try the odd new blend every once in a while. This one really stood out as a disaster though.
mmm i agree… i liked when they had the from garden to cup series this summer (however, i feel like there were only two or three teas… ) but they were delish, and last year when they focused in on the straight teas for a month and brought out a couple.. one of my faves is the black jasmine pearls.. hopefully they go back to that!
I agree with you both. Ever since DT has become so much more popular (good for them!!) I feel like they keep changing to retain more new people to the tea world by creating blends you'd never think would exist. I understand from a marketing stand point that it obviously makes sense to do that but I think they should also focus on the consumers who have been there since day one and who loved their blends that did not have so many artificial flavouring in. I agree, I hope they bring back more "retired" blends. We will have to keep an eye out for that on they're web specials too!


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Carnival of the Godless #109 has arrived. Rana has it over at Reduce To Common Sense.
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
What I Read in 2011
Each January, as I compile, or at least revise, my new year's resolutions, I also take down my wall calendar and transfer the titles of the books I read during the year to my Book-Woman notebook, which I've maintained since 1997. I realize that the list isn't as complete as I wish. For example, I rarely list the works I read from the assignments on my syllabus for literature classes. Otherwise, I'd have Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Paradise Lost, and more every year. I notice that I have listed several poetry books this year, but I know without a doubt that I read many more complete chapbooks and full collections of poetry this year. Rather than adding those here, I'll devote another post in a few days to add my favorite poetry of 2011. For now, here's how the list stacked up:
Steig Larsen, The Girl Who Played with Fire.
---. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed.
Heidi W. Durrow. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky.
Patti Smith. Just Kids.
Stewart O'Nan, Songs for the Missing.
Nick Hornby, Slam.
Tim Peeler, Checking Out.
Jane Hamilton, Laura Rider's Masterpiece.
Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire.
---. Mockingjay.
Laura Dave, London Is the Best City in America.
Josh Bazell, Beat the Reaper.
Sharyn McCrumb, Devil Amongst the Lawyers.
Ann-Marie McDonald, Fall on Your Knees.
Glenn Cooper, Secret of the Seventh Sign.
Emma Donaghue, Room.
Helen Losse, Seriously Dangerous.
Sarah Addison Allen, Peachkeepers.
Neil Gaiman, Coraline.
Sioghan Fallon, You Know When the Men Are Gone.
Gary Shytengart, Super True Sad Love Story.
Nancy Horan, Loving Frank.
Paula McLain. The Paris Wife.
Gabrielle Hamilton, Blood, Bones, and Butter.
Sara Gruen, Ape House.
Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad.
Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life.
Ann Patchett, State of Wonders.
Glenn Cooper, Book of Souls.
Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty.
Lisa Genova, Left Neglected.
Nicole Krauss, Great House.
Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters.
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book.
Tea Obrecht, The Tiger's Wife.
T. C. Boyle, The Women.
Silas House, Eli the Good.
Rebecca Hunt, Mr. Chartwell.
Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi.
Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing.
Jodi Picoult, Sing Me Home.
Ann Napolitano, A Good Hard Look.
Scott Owens, Something Knows the Moment.
Joshilyn Jackson, Backseat Saints.
William Kuhn, Reading Jackie.
Jessie Carty, Fat Girl.
Malaika Albrecht, Spill.
Lisa See, Dreams of Joy.
Deborah Rodriquez, A Cup of Friendship.
Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore.
Pierre von Rooyen, Saturdays Are Gold.
Ken Follett, Fall of Giants.
Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother.
Charles Frazier, Nightwoods.
Jonathan Franzen, Freedom.
Laura Schlessinger, The Care and Feeding of Husbands.
David Sedaris. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk.
Hillary Jordan. When She Woke.
Brad Metzer, Book of Lies.
Alice Randall, The Wind Done Gone.
Adam Rex, The True Meaning of Smekday.
Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere.
Alan Bradley, Sweetness in the Bottom of the Pie.
That's the list for the year. I must add one book in progress: I'm just a little over halfway through IQ84, Haruki Murakami's fascinating story set in 1984 Tokyo. The book weighs in at a heft 1452 (at least the electronic version), but that shouldn't discourage anyone wanting an engrossing tale of two lives connected for twenty years--since the two were ten--that intersect in the strangest of world. It's an ideal book to read as I straddle 2011 and 2012. Meanwhile, my list for the coming year is already stacking up.
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- Jessie Carty said...
I love going back to look at what ive read :) what a feat list! I'm honored to be on it :) I'm reading Gaiman's "the graveyard book" right now but I think I enjoyed "neverwhere" more. I'm teaching "Beowulf" and all for the first time this semester
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Malabar Muslim cuisine doyenne Ummi Abdulla's new cookbook has been seven years in the making
It's my dream come true!" says Ummi Abdulla, the doyenne of Malabar Muslim cuisine as she looks at a lifetime of recipes collected in a limited-edition coffee table book released earlier this month. In conversation with Nazaneen Jalaludheen, her grand-daughter, she tells us how they cooked up a grand collection of recipes flavoured by mouth-watering stories from Ummi's childhood in a small village named Thikkody, near Calicut.
"My grandmother Ummi's first book Malabar Muslim Cookery was inspired by my grandfather,
V Abdulla," explains Nazaneen. "He was a publisher working with Orient Longman, as it was known at the time. He had made a name for himself by bringing out the work of well-known writers in Malayalam into English. He had a passion for literature as well as for good food. He was the one who encouraged my grand-mother to put it all in writing."
"As far as I know it was the first book of its kind on Moplah cookery," adds Ummi. "It's still in print." She explains that though the core of the book consisted of typical North Malabar Muslim recipes, she also innovated with a few of the dishes. Even more so after they came to Chennai. "My husband was always interested in buying new gadgets for the kitchen so I could experiment with them."
Having eaten at their home when Mr Abdulla was still alive I can vouch for some of her finely layered and baked dishes. Some of them like the thin rice-based pathiris were enveloped with freshly fried slices of fish. Others were like a Kerala version of lasagna. She undertook a course of training at the Madras Institute of Catering. She soon became famous for her home-made squashes and fruit cordials.
"I used to supply all the cocktail onions that the five-star hotels required in those days," she says. The house was never without someone sitting and peeling mounds of tiny onions, blanching them and putting them into bottles. Soon she found herself in great demand by restaurants catering for the demand for regional recipes.
In her first book, she explains how the term mapilla often anglicised as Moplah indicated a term of respect for the son-in-law or Maha Pillai. In many cases, these were the Arabs who came to Kerala to trade for pepper and spices and married the local young women. "My grand-mother is a great storyteller," continues Nazaneen. She spent a part of her schooldays at Chennai with her grandparents. "When we decided to produce a larger book, I thought why not include the stories of her childhood. It's a way of life that is now forgotten."
"It took seven years for us to do this book that was published by crowdfunding," explains Nazaneen who is a software professional with her own family. "Yes, even my husband who is from Kashmir loves eating my grand-mother's culinary marvels."
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If you would like to enjoy a little expat insight and hospitality. Adele would be happy to join you.
Licensed English-Speaking Tour Guide
Our guides have been carefully chosen for their professionalism, cultural knowledge, and fun characters!
The Crew
Licensed English-Speaking Tour Guide or Expat Tour Host – Adele
Choose your preference. See Choice of Local Tour Guide or Expat Tour Host.
Ban Saleuan Lunch Host – Ms. Phai
Ms. Phai has been a long-time friend of Bounmi's and we absolutely love her! With a warm, friendly, and helpful nature, she will be the fantastic host of your lunch at Ban Saleuan. She whips up delicious Lao dishes in her modest kitchen for visitors. Whilst she may not speak English, she will most certainly show you the warmest hospitality while you are guests in her home – a universal gesture which transcends a common language.
Professional Boat Captain
Bounmi's captains are local experts on the river and safety conscious.
Departure Times & Meeting Points
Departure Time
Departure time is flexible and can be arranged for the hours between 0900AM and 1200PM.
Meeting the Boat
We offer transfers to and from the boat and will pick you up directly at your hotel. Within city limits.
If you would like to make your own way to the boat, the confirmation of dock will be provided at the time of your booking.
If staying within walking distance of the Mekong, we ask that you meet us on the Mekong. We will provide the location to the most convenient dock in relation to your hotel.
What's Included/Not Included
Private custom slow boat & professional captain.
Transportation to and from the boat (hotel pick-up within city limits).
English-speaking tour guide or expat tour host.
Ban Saleuan lunch host – Ms. Phai.
Local village lunch.
Chilled beer Lao, non-alcoholic beverages & water.
Traditional Lao snacks.
On-board music system.
Karaoke (Nava Thip only).
Not Included
Personal insurance.
Crew gratuities.
What To Bring
What to Bring
Suitable footwear and clothing for the appropriate seasons. Mornings and evenings can be cool during the winter months.
Sun protection and bug spray.
Please ensure you are dressed appropriately and respectfully if wishing to visit the temple in Ban Saleuan.
Ladies should have their shoulders and knees covered. Men should also have their shoulders covered but knee shorts are acceptable.
Things To Consider
Lunch Time
When considering departure also take into consideration time what time you would like to enjoy lunch. It is an hour cruise to the village.
Cultural Considerations
Please ensure you are dressed appropriately and respectfully for entering any religious site in Laos. Villages have their own local temples, so kindly take note of this if you wish to pay them a visit.
Ladies should have their shoulders and knees covered. Men should also have their shoulders covered but knee shorts are acceptable.
It is polite to remove your shoes before entering any temple or local Lao home. Note: Your feet should never be used for pointing, especially in the direction of a monk or novice. It is also impolite to step over or through people sitting down.
When at temple and in the presence of a monk and/or elder, one should consider their body and head position, in relation too the monk(s) or elder(s) in the room. One should not stand directly above or pass over top another person's head, especially a monk and/or elder. In general, it is best not to touch another persons head if you don't know them. Children included.
Visiting Local Sites of Interest
When visiting local villages and temples along the Mekong river, do be aware that oftentimes there are no paved pathways and you're usually met with uneven ground and stairways. We ask each of our guests to please be aware of your own fitness level and to take this into consideration on your tour.
Responsible Tourism
We kindly ask our guests not to hand out money to children in the villages they visit. Should you wish to support any of the villages or temples that you come across, please let us know and we'll be happy to advise on how to do that responsibly.
Seasons & Temperatures
Dry season is between Nov – Apr with average temperatures of 27°C. Rainy season is between May – Oct with average temperatures of 32°C.
Cruise Rates
What to Expect
Meet your English-speaking tour guide or expat tour host (depending on your choice), and boat captain at the docks. Depart Luang Prabang and enjoy the 1-hour cruise on the Mekong river to Ban Saleuan.
Arrive in the village of Ban Saleuan and be warmly welcomed into the home of Ms. Phai, a San Baleuan local who is a long-time friend of Bounmi's and your fantastic lunch host! Savour an authentic Lao lunch prepared with delicious fresh ingredients, cooked by Ms. Phai herself. After lunch, guests can choose to work off the calories with a trek to Ban Saleuan Caves, or simply hang back, relax, and take in more of village life.
Say good-bye to your hosts and Ban Saleuan Village. Depart for the 1.5-hour scenic cruise up river to Luang Prabang.
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19 January 2015. By Jennifer Freedman.
Australia's biggest trade mission to India to date returned home on Friday with the expectation that Canberra will be able to clinch a free-trade agreement with Asia's third-largest economy by this time next year.
Trade and Investment Minister Andrew Robb, who led the delegation to New Delhi, promised last week that his government's "highest FTA priority is now the conclusion of a bilateral trade deal with India" in 2015.
India and Australia have held six rounds of talks since negotiations began in 2011 to liberalize and broaden trade in goods, encourage investment, and abolish "non-tariff barriers" such as import bans or quotas that make commerce difficult or costly. The FTA would "cover substantially all trade in goods" and "would have substantial services-sector coverage," they said in a joint feasibility study in 2010.
Trade between the two countries has grown in value from $5.1 billion in 2003 to $15.2 billion in 2013 —though that's just a tenth of Australia's bilateral trade with China. India is Australia's fifth-biggest export market, buying $9.5 billion of goods such as coal, gold and copper in 2013.
Securing an ambitious FTA with India would represent an important economic and political triumph for Canberra. India is on course to overtake China as the world's fastest-growing major economy by 2017, bolstered by "robust" export growth and improved investor confidence following "the election of a reform minded government," the World Bank said in its Global Economic Prospects report last Tuesday.
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This would be a remarkable achievement for India, which is known for its high levels of bureaucracy, corruption and protectionism.
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The Northeast Asian FTAs "create new market access in goods and services, unlock the two-way benefits of investment, creating wealth for all Australians, and imbed modern disciplines that underpin trade and investment activity," Robb said in a Nov. 16 YouTube statement. "They position Australia to benefit from the growth and transformation of Asia's leading economies."
The accord with Tokyo, which entered into force on Thursday, was particularly significant because the Japanese farming industry has traditionally been protected. The trade deal with Australia was "Japan's first with a major agricultural economy, placing us ahead of the pack," Robb said.
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Canberra sees the FTA as a way to help India diversify its energy base through the supply of low-emission liquefied natural gas and uranium.
Indian Prime Minster Narenda Modi said in December that his country needed "energy that does not cause our glaciers to melt; clean coal and gas, renewable energy and fuel for nuclear power."
Australia's refusal to sell uranium to India until New Delhi signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty —a major obstacle in the FTA talks — was resolved in September after Modi agreed that the uranium would only be used for peaceful power generation. Shipments are expected within five years.
India already imports coking coal from Australia, and in 2009 signed a contract with ExxonMobil for liquefied natural gas from its Gorgon Project off the West Australian coast. Woodside Petroleum, Australia's largest oil and gas producer, last week signed a memorandum of understanding with major Indian energy conglomerate Adani Enterprises that could lead to trade in LNG. The deal was inked during Australia Business Week, a trade event in New Delhi, that was attended by more than 450 Australian business leaders eager to do business in India.
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Thai bike tours offer adventure tours to suit all styles of riding and all levels of ability, and for virtually any duration. Budget or Luxury style to suit your pocket. Let us amaze you with our level of customer service and flexibility. You choose from off-road, on-road, dual terrain and even scooter twist and go tours. There are no fixed itineraries on our motorbike tours.
At your pace not ours! The emphasis is on safety and enjoyment with incredible scenic routes, challenging tracks with wonderful Thai food.
- Road bike tours
- Enduro tours
- Classic bike tours-Triumph and Royal Enfield
- Road bike tour + enduro tour
- Road bike tour + enduro tour + 4x4 off-road
- Enduro tour + 4x4 off-road
Bring along your non bike riding friends and family!!
We have great support trucks too!!
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Luxury Motorcycle Tours
Our tours allow you to take in the sights and sounds of the breath-taking Thailand countryside, whilst riding an exceptional motorcycle. Thailand offers a huge variety of attractions including waterfalls, mountains, jungles and of course, beautiful temples. We can offer you the finest tour to suit your budget and lifestyle.
- 3-4 star deluxe motorbike tours - from extra 2000 Baht per person per night
- 4-5 star luxury motorbike tours - from extra 4000 Baht per person per night
If you require a swimming pool, a spa, a gourmet meal or fine wine after each days ride- NO PROBLEM, leave it to us!!
Off Road Enduro Tours
We offer off road bike tours which are min 80% dirt road, you will be immersed into the incredible jungle terrain of Northern Thailand which boasts over 5000 kms of amazing single and double track routes. Remember our tour prices are fully inclusive of all hotels, quality bike and fuel any admissions and all unlimited food, snacks and soft drinks. See our dedicated enduro tour website (Passion Enduro Tours).
Bridge Over River Kwai tour
The roads in this area are fantastic to ride with plenty of curves and very little traffic. Motorcycle touring at it's best, with beautiful scenery too, this adventure holiday package is hard to beat for satisfaction. Let us take you South West to Kanchanaburi and visit the famous Death Railway and take a train ride through the deepest jungle that took so many lives. Visit the museum and take a thought provoking stroll through the cemetery where so many are laid to rest. We will follow the route to the Myanmar (Burmese) border and have 1 or 2 nights in downtown Kanchanaburi, with rideout"s each day or a day off if you prefer, our TAT (Thai Authority Tour guide) will be on hand throughout as with every tour.
Remember our motorcycle touring holiday prices are fully inclusive of all admissions and all food and refreshments.
The BIG Northern Thailand loop
Chiang Mai, Mae Sariang, Mae Hong Son, Pai, Chiang Rai, Mae Sai, Chiang Khong, Nan & Phayao are just a few of the places this Northern Thailand motorcycle tour will ride to and take in the amazing road system that weaves it's way through the mountains & jungles of North West Thailand, experiencing the local culture along the way.
From Chiang Mai the tour heads south west to Mae Sariang taking in Doi Inthanon on the way, we then head North to Mae Hong Son where our river trip to an isolated Karen Hill Tribe village, then East to Pai and take in the famous "road of curves". Fang, Mae Sai and the Myanmar border is our next stop with a short trip over the border to experience "life Burma style!!!". We then follow the infamous "Golden Triangle" and Mekong river and ultimately end up in the Traditional town of Nan whilst taking in some of the most amazing roads and scenery in Northern Thailand. This prepares us for a great return journey back to Chiang Mai to then finish the tour with the much talked about 100km Samoeng loop. From 39,750 Baht per person.
Off road training
We realise many people have never experienced off-road trail riding, we will take you safely through some basic techniques and give you the confidence to hit the trails, we promise! Bike, fuel and biking gear are included. From Only 5000 Baht when booked with either an on-road or off-road motorbike tour. Stand alone package price 7450 Baht
Rideout's (on or off road options)
Using our beautiful lakeside resort in Chiang Mai as a base, we will explore the North of Thailand either by tarmac road or jungle track in the knowledge that your lakeside studio is awaiting at the end of each day. From 5000 Baht per day per person.


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Kotu Beach
Families, couples and groups of friends looking for an African adventure without the dreaded jet lag would be wise to consider a holiday in the beautiful Kotu Beach resort in the Gambia, West Africa.
Direct flights from the UK to the Gambia typically take under six hours and as there is no time difference between the two countries, trips here offer a great opportunity to enjoy an exotic beach break without any exhausting long haul flights.
A small and wonderfully welcoming African nation, the Gambia is awash with stunning palm-lined beaches and Kotu Beach is one of the most popular among visitors from the UK and across Europe. Combining the luxury and convenience of a modern beach resort with abundant opportunity for off the beaten track adventure, the sun-baked destination lies less than 15 miles from Yundum International Airport, located in the colourful Gambian capital, Banjul.
Although Koto Beach is an increasingly popular holiday destination, it has so far avoided the overdevelopment that has blighted so many exotic destinations. Planning restrictions mean that towering high rise hotels are conspicuous by their absence and instead the attractive resort of Kotu is characterised by low-rise hotel and apartment complexes, built in the traditional style. Beach bars with straw roofs are the perfect places to enjoy a tangy cocktail or cooling coconut water whilst admiring the beautiful view. The soft white sands of Kotu Beach are perfect for stretching out with a good book and soaking up some of those West African rays.
Kotu Beach is located towards the northern edge of the Gambia's beautiful coastline and is one of several beach resorts stretching south from the mighty River Gambia. Whilst it is perfectly possible to just kick back and relax during a trip to Kotu Beach, adrenaline junkies won't be disappointed either. Opportunities for water-based adventure abound - jet-skiing, deep sea diving and other high octane activities can all be arranged at Kotu Beach resort.
Most hotels are set in their own beautiful tropical gardens and the slow pace of life here makes a break in Kotu Beach the perfect choice for couples looking to escape the world for a honeymoon or romantic getaway. Kotu Beach is also popular with families and many hotels are very well equipped to meet the needs of both young children and teenagers as well as adults - some can even arrange baby sitting services for those who want to slip away for an evening safe in the knowledge that the younger family members are in safe hands. Snorkelling, swimming and fishing are good family friendly activities that can easily be arranged by most hotels in Kotu and the beautiful bird and animal life that abounds in this part of Africa will be sure to impress even the sulkiest of teens.
For many people, the Gambia is synonymous with rich wildlife and visitors to Kotu Beach will be well-placed for seeing many of the natural wonders that this African nation has to offer. The Kotu Creek wetlands run east of the Kotu Beach resort and are awash with hundreds of colourful native bird species. Bird watching safaris are a popular activity with travellers visiting the Gambia, whilst river cruises along the River Gambia provide excellent opportunities to spot hippos, crocodiles and other wetland animals at dramatically close quarters. Inland safaris are also hugely popular and lucky tourists may even be able to spot chimpanzees as well as the many smaller monkeys that leap from branch to branch overhead.
Kotu Beach is a great base for exploring the wider Gambia and hotels here are more than happy to arrange long and short excursions for guests. Local transport mainly takes the form of bone-rattling public buses and bare-bones river boats, so visitors who wish to travel a little more luxuriously would be well-advised to take trips aboard more comfortable tourist boats and buses.
It is perfectly possible to combine off the beaten track adventure with modern luxury during a break here - for example, a couple of days safari adventure can be offset with a sap treatment and a few rounds of golf at the nearby Fajara Golf Course. Kotu Beach resort boasts plenty of relaxed bars and restaurants, serving family-friendly international dishes such as pizza and pasta as well as the wonderfully spicy and flavoursome cuisine that is typical of the Gambia.
Unsurprisingly, the fish here is wonderful - caught daily by local fishermen, it's a great way to support the local economy while treating yourself to some of the freshest seafood you can imagine.
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Yundum International Airport, Banjul, is served by international charter flights from several UK airports. Most visitors choose to avoid Kotu Beach during the rainy season, which runs from July through to October and sees intense humidity as well as heavy downpours. The rest of the year, temperatures hover around the low 30s, with plenty of warm sunshine.


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Financial Year 2014 to 2015
The pupil premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap in attainment between them and their peers. Currently a school receives £ 1,300 for each primary and £935 for each secondary pupil who has been eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years. A school also receives £1,900 for each Looked After Child. In 2014-15 SAH's allocation, based on 56 pupils, was £69,537 (approx 4% of our total annual income).
Each school is free to spend this extra revenue as it sees fit, so long as it can show that the gap in progress and attainment is closing between PP pupils and their peers. At the Steiner Academy the education focuses on the development of the whole child and integrates academic learning with artistic and outdoor activities. It recognises the unique contribution that each child brings to their learning and uses targeted additional support strategies to support every child to be able to:
- improve self-esteem;
- have full access to our curriculum;
- access extra-curricular provision;
- improve their levels of attainment and progress;
- where present, to close attainment gaps.
We are committed to ensuring that pupils in receipt of PPF are not stigmatised or isolated in any way. However, we do identify these pupils in our progress tracking system. This enables us to monitor their progress and to intervene where appropriate. Pupil Premium funding is used in the following ways:-
- Curricular support
- To employ Teaching Assistants to allow more focus on areas of targeted support for individual pupils where we feel the greatest benefit can be achieved. TA's work a combined total of 189.5 hours per week. In addition we also employ 5 kindergarten Assistants working a total of 130 hours per week. The cost of this support for 2014-15 is approx £142,000.
- A range of interventions specifically for PP pupils where appropriate, including: speech or eurythmy therapy; additional small group teaching; materials or specialist equipment, such as a laptops; additional pastoral support from relevant professionals where we are unable provide this in-house. The budget for these interventions for 2014-15 was approx £2,000
- We have developed a policy "Enhancing PP student's Educational Experience through Music" to ensure that any funding for music for PP pupils is allocated correctly. In 2014-15 we invested approx £1,000 in this area.
- Extra-curricular support
- Educational visits and other extracurricular activities are an indispensible part of the learning experience and enrich a pupil's understanding of themselves and the world around them. As such, our Governing Body has agreed within its Charging Policy to allow a parent to apply for the remission of part or all of the charges for board and lodging on educational trips if the child is eligible for Free School Meals. The budget for extra curricular support for 2014-15 is approx £600.


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Key Point #2 Get the addiction out, get the sin out and don't even spend one second thinking about your old way of life. This gets Damon out and the Holy Spirit in.
Read Matthew 19
Father, help me to choose living in your light instead of gambling. Knowing that as I learn to like other things to do (over time) – my joy overall will increase.
4. Checklist for avoiding relapse: Write down what attitudes and beliefs led you into addiction. For me the love of pleasure was a priority. That attitude brought about a lot of pain and destruction. I am currently focusing on being very aware of how great things are when I worship God vigorously and pursue the correct passions and purpose. If I improve my awareness of how great things are when I am vibrantly living life God's way, the next time I fall into heavy temptation I will have more bullets in my gun to fight back.
4. Pray: Father help me to focus on the fact that gambling causes destruction. It always has and it always will.
Day one: Quitting addiction exercises
Day two: It is important to admit you are powerless
Day 3: Learn the right way to live
Day 4: Getting rid of negative emotions
Day 5: Remember – money lost is not yours. Don't try to get it back or you will lose more
Day 6: can you increase your pleasure by gambling?
Day 7: Staying clean in all ways helps you quit the addiction
Day 8: Decide what pain and pleasure you want
Day 9: Analyze what leads you back to your addiction
Day 10: Change your emotions and your mindsets. Stop believing that your big score will come in.
Day 11: Where the Spirit of the Lord is – there is liberty
Day 12: Learn how to worship God. Also try to develop positive addictions.
Day 13: Write out a letter saying why you want to quit
Day 14: Overcoming cravings and negative emotions
Day 15: You have some self control
Day 16: Have a list of coping statements. Have a list of substitute activities.
Day 17: How to find living water that will always satisfy you
Day 18: Do not have faulty beliefs abourt gambling odds
Day 19: Interview with a professional poker player
Day 26: Which prayers are answered quickly – which prayers time more time and persistence
Day 27: How to fill the vacuum that addiction caused
28: Finding a good church
30: How to eliminate the vacuum created by quitting
31: Tripping your addiction trap. Overcoming sloth
32: You need clean people around you if you are going to stay clean
33: Use real math not gambling math
Day 34: Don't condemn yourself
Day 35: Don't test yourself to see if it is safe to gamble a little bit
Day 36: Knowing why you can't quit can help you quit
Day 37: Do not chase pipe dreams
Day 38: Getting the anger out
Day 39: The vice of greed
Day 40: Specific planning helps break addiction
Day 41: Embrace the truth about gambling. Know your odds of hitting the big score.
Day 42: Quitting permanently
Day 43: Financial problems
44: Overcoming cravings
Day 45: The importance of helping others right now
Day 46: The devil is always campaigning for you
Day 47: Who or what do you worship
Day 49: Be faithful in small things and God will promote you to bigger things
Day 50: Do something good for somebody
Day 51: Pride leadeth to a fall
Day 52: How to be in God's blessing


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~ in Preetz, Schleswig-Holstein, Imperial Germany – Hans Hermann Junge, Hitler's Aide-de-Camp who joined the Waffen SS in July 1943 to regain "his sense of objectivity" after his time with Hitler. He died in combat in August 1944, aged 30. "Hitler had liked Hans Junge and was so upset by his death that he broke the news to [Frau Junge] personally" [Wikipedia].
~ In Montreal, Canada – George Gordon Hyde, Royal Canadian Air Force pilot stationed in Britain from 1940, killed in a flying accident in May 1941, aged 27.
~ In Worcester, in the Western Cape, South Africa – G.L.F.Hartwig, Professor of Wood Technology at Stellenbosch University from 1950 to 1979.
World Affairs: Ivan Longinovich Goremykin replaces Vladimir Nikolaevich Kokovtsev as Prime Minister of Russia. After retiring from public life in 1916 he will be murdered by a mob in his home region in the Caucasus in 1917.
Society and culture: In Sikkim, the landlocked Himalayan state in British India, Sidkeong Tulku Namgyal, 35 year old Oxford graduate, is recognised as the reincarnation of his uncle and becomes the ruling Maharaja. He dies (of jaundice and heart failure?) in suspicious circumstances in less than a year, to be succeeded by his brother.
Science and technology: In Istanbul, the Silahtarağa Power Station is powered up for the first time, bringing electric power to the city's trams and lighting the Sultan's Topkapi Palace.


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By Paul Gains
It's the morning after the day before and Ed Whitlock has made headlines once again for an outstanding road running performance.
The 85 year old from Milton, Ontario carries expectations into every race as he sets record after record and again did not disappoint his supporters at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon. Crossing the line in 3:56:38 he added the over 85 age class world record to the half marathon record he set this past spring.
"Have you seen the Globe and Mail?" he asks more out of astonishment than boastfulness. "They have a photograph of me on the front page of the sports section. Scotiabank and (race director) Alan (Brookes) will be well pleased."
Whitlock laughs but admits the effort has taken its toll.
"I feel Ok. My legs are not the best.," he admits laughing. "They are very, very stiff but apart from that everything else is ok.
"I had got in sort of the bare minimum of appropriate training preparations and I had a couple of months of serious long distance training runs and I felt that was enough. Certainly, ideally, I would have liked six months instead of two months but I felt that was just enough to get by."
Roughly one hundred yards from his house is a cemetery which he uses for training on a daily basis. The man who caught the road running world's attention when he became the first man over 70 to beat three hours in the marathon – he ran 2:54:49 at age 73 – still runs laps of the cemetery for hours on end.
He calls it 'very fast walking' with his customary humour. But as age tries to catch up with him and his future marathons will be nearer four hours he knows he must do more.
"I actually got up to three and a half hours this time," he says. "The thing is three hours doesn't do it any more. That's the hell of it. I need four hours now. And it's only going to get worse."
Laughing again he turns serious when asked if he can further reduce the record in subsequent marathon races.
"I think 3:40 would have been possible if the weather had been perfect and if I had had six months training," he declares. "I really think 3:40 would have been possible."
Well wishers surround him at every race and he is asked to appear at various events and dinners. In many ways he is a reluctant hero. Notoriety doesn't suit him. Indeed, after the race last night his 56 year old son, Neil, himself a two time Boston marathon finisher, drove him home where he had a minor celebration with his wife, Brenda. They cooked dinner together then opened a bottle of Bordeaux, the race and the crowd of well wishers now a fond memory.
"I don't know how to respond to them. Well how do you respond to that?" he says laughing again. "I suppose it's nice for people to say I inspire them but I am somewhat embarrassed and I don't know what the appropriate response is to that.
"I don't consider myself to be an inspiring person. I am not one to stand up on the stage and say 'you all can do this.'"
Whitlock will gradually overcome this year's marathon race and before long will be out on that cemetery road churning out the miles. There are more races to run and more records to chase. And if he inspires many to keep running as they age then that's a good thing too.


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