Post Card from Evert.to all DG

Got one today....He says "Hi" to all on DG......sent on the 21st.He was in Hungary-----and
they were heading for Austria....There he can use his euro's........ :) he is happy...Lucky him..!!! Sure sounds like he is having a great time.....Diana

That's a beautiful postcard. thanks for sharing, wanna.

Go Evert! And I thought Laura was quick!

Kathy

Cool! I thought I'd do the same thing if I get one from him, so thank you so much for sharing yours just in case he doesn't have time to send me one!

Excellent ~ yes, indeed, thanks for sharing! I hope he gets pictures of himself & family, too. Perhaps in front of several famous places?

I am sure he will. He would have love'd to send everyone a post card...so He asked me to post this....hahah....He asked me....little does he know, I am so......bad at scanners...and computer stuff....I want a brain transplant from him....haha.....see yeah...Diana

bumping it up....^

I'm glad he's not spending his time writing postcards to all of us! He can do that when he's home. LOL!!

Neat, thanks for posting!!!!

I'll bet he is having a great time. It was so nice of him to think of us.

Hey, I hadn't noticed this thread before =) Neat :)

You need to run a check on yourself more often Evert {g} Welcome back, a few weeks ago! Can you tell we missed you?

:P :]

Hmm, well...

Evert - so when are you gonna post some pictures of your travels?? or have I missed them?

Well, I already posted photos from Hungary.. have just been so lazy to post them and they are most about churches, flowers and panoramic views. :P :)

I would love to see some of the panoramic ones. Puh-leese!

But there are no flowers in those photos..

So?

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great postcard...good to hear from ya!

Muah, I found a pic where I am writing cards in Slovakia.. :D Put it to my journal http://davesgarden.com/editgj/showimage.php?iid=9707

Nice picture Evert....

OH ~ thank you for posting Evert :) I love this picture ~ from the moose on your shirt to my favorite drink, Coca-Cola by your side! Thanks for adding it ~ I like people pictures. My son is wearing his hair like yours with a wee bit of a twist. I'll be sharing your picture with him when he gets home :)

Actually, they aren't mooses, They're reindeer.. :) See, it is from Lapland ;) My hair ain't like that anymore :} http://davesgarden.com/showforumphoto.php?imageid=16066

I like coke too, but it is pretty expensive here. And we don't have cherry, lemon or other special cokes here. I tasted cherry and lemon coke for the first time in my life on the trip :D Somewhere in Poland or Lithuania.

Evert, I prefer the plain diet coke. tey just came out with Vanilla coke, I havent tried it, but I buy if for the kids.
I like your hair the way it is now. it looks very cool!

I like normal coke, Coke Light tastes too sweet (& Pepsi Max is horrible). Cherry coke was maybe a little too exotic and lemon coke tasted like lemon scented moist towelette. :} I haven't tasted the vanilla either. Why don't they sell any other cokes here??? Yeah everything's expensive and then we don't even have anything special.. :P

Evert, I am sure that there are a lot of things available to you there that are not available to us here.....

Hahaha.... you mean something useful too? =) Well, you're right, we have vanilla sugar ;)

Evert, many years ago when I was in Spain (1975), the Coca Cola bottles had the name in English on one side of the bottle and in Spanish on the other. Don't they do it that way anymore?

By the way, flavored Coke was very popular back in the 1930's and 1940's in USA, but they were purchased at a "soda fountain" in a pharmacy, and the counter person would add a squirt of whatever flavor the customer wanted: vanilla, cherry, chocolate were the most popular but there were many in different parts of the country: strawberry, coconut, butterscotch, whatever. My mom says they were much better than the already made flavors, but she really doesn't like soda anymore except diet Sprite.

In every cpuntry the texts are on the main languages, in Finnish and Swedish here. In UAE they were in arabic, it looked pretty cool (the big Coca-Cola text too) :)

They were MUCH better, Lupine! There was one of those old fashioned soda fountains in Marble Falls, not far from me. It was in a drugstore just like it had been since early in the 1900s ~ Michel's Drugstore. They recently sold the store and closed down the soda fountain. :( I love vanilla cokes and coke floats to this day! Evert, a Coke float is a scoop of vanilla ice cream floating in your coke ~ yummy!

I have never tasted coke float, maybe I should try =) How does it taste with chocolate ice cream?

Pretty good, too, but I like vanilla better. :) Chocolate is good in just about anything, but there's something about the vanilla flavor with the coke flavor that I just really like. Try the ice cream in some root beer for a root beer float ~ another yummy!

Root beer?

I have to buy vanilla ice cream and coke tomorrow.. :)

Oh, definitely! You'll love it!

Root beer is another soda pop or carbonated drink that I think they make from a certain bark of a tree and/or other spices. Do you have root beer in Finland? http://www.root-beer.org/ I think Barq's (pronounced "Barks" like a dog barks) is owned by Coca Cola, so is probably the most likely American brand to be in a store where you are.

No, we don't have root beer here I think. The only soft soda like drinks that are widely offered in stores are; Coca Cola, Classic Cola, First Choice Cola, Pepsi, 7-up, Frisco, Schweppes (Tonic Water & Russian - Ginger Ale some places), Fanta (several tastes), Jaffa, and some "small bottle sodas"...

Bummer! It's really good, especially with ice cream in it. If you ever get a chance, here's a recipe http://www.root-beer.org/recipe1.htm but you need rootbeer extract and I'm thinking if you can't find rootbeer in Finland, you won't find rootbeer extract. :( Well, I alwas liked coke floats better than rootbeer floats, so atleast you can have them! :)

Oh, Evert, you must find some rootbeer & have a rootbeer float! This was always a favorite of mine that only my grandmother made for me. It's any type of rootbeer over vanilla ice cream. The rootbeer brands of which I am aware are the following: A&W (I think it's its own brand), Barqs (a Coca-Cola product), Dad's (Monarch Co. of Atlanta or Pepsi-cola or its own which is a 25% share of the market), Hires (???), Mugs (???). These are not to be confused with Dr. Pepper which is a different drink as is RC.

By the Way (BTW), here's a link to my son's hair style, http://davesgarden.com/editgj/showimage.php?iid=9805

He just got it cut to look more like your photo where you are writing the postcards. It's funny because before he had his hair like this, he had it REALLY short like the one you posted of yourself more recently in the "Hortensiapeikko". BTW, what does "Hortensiapeikko" mean and what is vanilla sugar?

Regards,
Morph

I am wondering could root beer be what we call "kotikalja" or "pöytäkalja" here. Non-alcoholic beer which is pretty sweet? (or depends on who made it ;))

I usually have longer hai on winter, like that :}

Hortensiapeikko: hydrangea-bogy hahahhaha

Evert,

I found a Finnish translation shareware package. The program translates "kotikalja" into english as "home-made beer (non-alcoholic)".

"pöytäkalja" was not in the translator. Rootbeer is not at all associated with the typical "alcoholic beer" that comes to mind first, usually. Wingnut's explanation was perfect. I hope you can find some and have an old fashioned rootbeer float :)

Thanks for the translation on "Hortensiapeikko" ~ that wasn't in the translator either >:]