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Apple Sidra Vender Please?

This is the most beautiful drink in the world... and it appears that you can only get it in Taiwan! Argh. I was practically drowning in the stuff for the 2 weeks I was out there. Does anyone know where I can find Apple Sidra in London? Some chinese supermarket maybe?

Related: Apple Sidra, Taiwan

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Today's (so far) turning out to be a really good day and it's only lunchtime. My shares are up, the landlord may actually do something about my sink, and my new camera has arrived. It's awesome. Have been playing around with it all morning. May even get a webcam up on this page, who knows?! The fact that I can take short movie clips with it has made me determined to catch myself in a sneeze. Then I can replay it in super slo-mo. I think this is important as I may live my whole life and never see myself sneeze... it always happens so fast...

See also: webcam

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(This is my last sunburn related post I promise.) I think it's due to the discomfort this experience is causing me that I'm strangely really craving some skiing. Sure you can get very sunburnt on the slopes too but at least one is fairly well covered all over. And yes, severe sunburn is preferable to a broken leg, but I've really missed storming down a piste and frequently crashing in a similar manner to that almost gymnastic moment in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano when Herman Maier lost his footing slightly. (Links to RealPlayer clips of those truly classic few seconds - high/low bandwidth.) I'll admit there is something morbid about my joy at watching high speed crashes and collisions. I do sort of look forward to a little catastrophe in anything from skiing to F1 racing. Isn't it sad that these sports are only exciting when one happens? There are a good few minutes of this sort of footage in Ultimate X, the IMAX film on the 2002 X Games. Highly recommended.

Tags: sunburn, Herman Meier, IMAX, X Games

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Use sunscreen

Nice. A chest's worth of skin is peeling off me like cling film. This is only the second time I've ever been sunburnt... never again. Although the plan was to turn from

to , I'm actually quite . Never ever again.

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Dave's Villagers

Hello, I'm back. Had a really good two weeks in Taiwan. Very hot two weeks though, I've got pretty bad sunburn but I think it was worth it. Taiwan's cool, go if you can.

It's still nice to be home though. I see that the football season is upon us already, so I challenge all of you to a game of fantasy football courtesy of BBC Sport. Choose your team, sign up and give me your PIN (but not password of course) and I'll add you to our league, a league of mentlemen, the "How Very Village" league.
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China Invades Taiwan

BBC News - "...China's most credible and immediate threat lies in its increasing battery of conventional short-range ballistic missiles.

These could be used as part of a more limited coercive strategy to produce a rapid collapse of Taiwan's 'national will'.
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Tags: China, Taiwan

SpaceWeather.com

The other thing I'm looking forward to in Taiwan (besides the constant pampering and great food) is the weather. I'm currently sitting through my third afternoon in a row of heavy rainfall. Here's something related; SpaceWeather.com - Get the weather forecast for Venus tomorrow. Not practical but some impressive photos.

Related: weather, photo

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