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Those little details matter *g*

And speaking of the World of No... fermented BANANA wine??? WHAT??? You actually brought that home with you???? I'm so bewildered!

We did! Or apparently did. So, setting the scene. It's our first time abroad, it's hot and sunny and we're wandering a small farmer's market in a town square. Unlike the main shops most of the stall holders don't speak English -- which isn't a problem, we'd been picking up a few words of Spanish and managing to communicate okay, if slowly and using our fingers for numbers at time.

One of the stalls have examples of drinks on them. We test them, a white and a red, and both seem delicious. Especially the red which seems to be some kind of cactus juice/wine. We ask for a bottle of that, and are given a bottle in a sealed material bag. Which quickly gets swallowed up by other bags containing many mangoes, a watermelon as big as my head and a cat made of volcanic rock.

Time moves on. We spend days in the sun, we're sun soaked and happy, and the bag gets put in our suitcase and eventually packed in with clothes. Which is a long way to say, it was a surprise when we actually opened the bag and discovered that we'd actually been given the fermented banana wine. I really think the sunshine must have made it palatable in the Canaries, because man, it tasted just as bad as it sounds *g*

I've read three stories so far, and have a thumbs up for all atm.