About The Country Club

The Country Club exists to divert its members by recording and comparing members’ travels. There are 195 UN Member States/Official Observor, and we are trying to visit them all. Check our progress on the Club Ladder, to the right, or by clicking the link for the List of Countries Visited below that. Curious how we count? Click The Country Club By-Laws link.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Dalai Dublin

Your secretary visited Ireland earlier this week. The conference I was in grew absolutely electric when word went around that the Dalai Lama had walked into the hotel lobby and chatted up people there. Others reported seeing him multiple times in the lift. I could find him nowhere, and made my way back to my room, only to pass him in the hall; he was sharing a giggle with another saffron robed monk. Beats a Guinness. Here's a link to what he was doing there.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0413/dalailama.html

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

An Outlet Survey


Mr Secretary,

As you can see from the photos I combined some spiced rum tasting with an condom outlet check in St. Lucia (a new country for me).
Each bar has its own recipe, some much better than others.
What I tasted was quite the concoction as you can see from the expression on my face.

Here is a more conventional recipie if you want to move past Captain Morgan.
  • whole star anise
  • 1/2 3-inch cinnamon stick, broken into pieces
  • 2 whole cloves
  • 2 allspice berries
  • 2 cardamom pods
  • 1/4 ounce (1/2 tablespoon) freshly grated nutmeg
  • 1 liter light rum
  • 1 vanilla bean, split and scraped
  • Strips of peel from 1 whole orange
    & lemon