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netcat <netcat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > In article <MPG.22768c5cd39fb0c4989877@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > netcat <netcat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > In article <ddfr-0E331B.07471418042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > In article <MPG.227284db4a8e1715989872@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > netcat <netcat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >
> > > > > I usually wait until the last day as well. Luckily, I don't have
to
> > > > > fill
> > > > > any forms, or, $DEITY forbid, go to the post office. I just log
onto
> > > > > the
> > > > > Tax Authority website, look over the pre-filled form (it's been
3 or
> > > > > more years since I last had to make corrections in it) and click
on a
> > > > > couple of buttons. Last time I was done and gone in about 3
minutes.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > What country is this in?
> > >
> > > Estonia.
> >
> > Thanks. I gather it's well ahead of the curve in such matters.
> >
> > I spent a pleasant day in Talinn not that long ago. There is a
"medieval
> > restaurant" there that gets almost everything right except the food.
The
> > problem being that it's run by a chef, and he naturally wants to
invent
> > his own medieval recipes instead of using real ones.
>
> Olde Hansa, right? Well, yeah. It's a tourist trap. I sometimes go there
> at winter, for the ambience and a warm spicy drink and baked apples, and
> they do a wicked mushroom soup, but anything more substantial is usually
> not very edible.
Yes. I went with friends of the owner. The food was all right, but it
wasn't especially medieval. And it isn't as if there aren't huge numbers
of surviving recipes.
On the other hand, the furniture was period designs, some of them I
think about 15th c., some earlier. And the general ambiance was well
done.
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