Where do we all live?

[MyWatchBegins]

Hello and nice to meet you!
I haven't been to your part of the country, but I have been to Bali and I can confirm that Indonesian food is the best in the world! I hate long flights, but I would brave it again if I could return, it was absolutely stunning! And the people are the nicest we have ever encountered, we loved it there.
Sorry for butting in to your post, but I actually have some pictures of Indonesian food that I will share. Impossible to taste via screen, but trust me, it's amazing.

[cashmeritan]

Hello and nice to meet you!
I haven't been to your part of the country, but I have been to Bali and I can confirm that Indonesian food is the best in the world! I hate long flights, but I would brave it again if I could return, it was absolutely stunning! And the people are the nicest we have ever encountered, we loved it there.
Sorry for butting in to your post, but I actually have some pictures of Indonesian food that I will share. Impossible to taste via screen, but trust me, it's amazing.

Ohhh, Rox that all looks delicious

Thank you for sharing!

[mimosa]

Remember how I was supposed to send pictures of my trip to McBride, B.C.? I finally downloaded the photos.

Well...for our Saturday activity, some people made a leather key chain, some people hung around, some people were encouraged to go on a walk/hike. I went on the hike. And my friend, Sallyma was very excited that I was coming as well. Well..um...that called for a little more exertion than I had envisioned for this "old lady". There was another woman there around my age and the young'ins told us that we were very brave.

We went to some icy waterfall and we had to take a rope down to get to the bottom of fall, so that we could climb up the one side to look inside, and it took some serious acrobatics on my part. (But I was not doing it with one arm like some other die-hard 20-something local.)

I wish I could send you a photo of the inside of it. The last picture is having to back up to the top after our excursion. The second last is the small waterfall before we got to the one we went down to, with ropes and holding onto ropes and roots, and ice, hoping we didn't slip and break anything. I'm amazed I came out of it alive and without an injury. Although, I was pretty sore for the next few days. LOL.

ME

[mimosa]

One of me looking in and the other with me and my friend. Envision the water coming down from the top and then spraying inside this ice structure. Pretty cool. We sank in the snow as we went along under the waterfall because it was pretty mild. One of the girls got wet up to the hip, but she was wearing her husband's work overalls. My mitts were sooo wet. We also wore icepicks over our shoes...not that it helped when you reeeally needed it. Lol.

I have video of it too, but I don't know how to do that.

ME

[impossibleusay]

Just scrolled through the last couple of pages of this thread and wow, I'm so jealous of all the beautiful places you all live in/have close access to! And talented photographers, all!

[MyWatchBegins]

We went to some icy waterfall and we had to take a rope down to get to the bottom of fall, so that we could climb up the one side to look inside, and it took some serious acrobatics on my part. (But I was not doing it with one arm like some other die-hard 20-something local.)

ME

This looks amazing! I wouldn't have had the courage to go up there, so well done, fearless one!

[DaisyNinjaGirl]

I live in a city called Medan in Indonesia. We’re known for its food and being the worst drivers in the country (including me)
I’m sorry I don’t have any interesting photos to show about my city because mostly it’s just houses, offices, malls etc.

Hi AnyWhereIs,

It's lovely to hear from someone who's vaguely near my own timezone. ;-) [waves hi from NZ]

Daisy

[DaisyNinjaGirl]

Mim, those waterfall photos look incredible

[dianakc]

One of me looking in and the other with me and my friend. Envision the water coming down from the top and then spraying inside this ice structure. Pretty cool. We sank in the snow as we went along under the waterfall because it was pretty mild. One of the girls got wet up to the hip, but she was wearing her husband's work overalls. My mitts were sooo wet. We also wore icepicks over our shoes...not that it helped when you reeeally needed it. Lol.

I have video of it too, but I don't know how to do that.

ME

Brilliant Mim. Fantastic pics x

[merry]

That food, Rox! looks BEAUTIFUL!

oh mim, thank you for sharing your glorious frozen waterfall pictures! Wow at you roping yourself down! mega kudos for that!

This is the most wonderful topic.

[anywhereis]

Hello, Any! lovely to read all about you.... I'm pretty sure you're our first member from Indonesia! wonderful!

I have always been fascinated by volcanoes ever since.... well Pompeii, really!

I'd love to have some indonesian food. What are some traditional dishes? (I'm from England... sorry... our food is tragic but we keep on eating it)

We have lots of traditional dishes! Foods in my city were mostly influenced by Chinese, Dutch and Indian cuisines so we have our own version of fried rice, noodles soup, stroppwaffel, naan etc.

I don't know how to describe the food but we have a cake called bika ambon, which is made from tapioca flour and it's inspired from the Dutch. And no, I don't how to make it

We also have minced pork with spices that includes pigs blood. We slow cooked it for around 2 hours and it's one of my favorite food

The food in here is incredibly diverse, that when you go to another city (or even another neighborhood) it would be a whole new world of food adventure!

[anywhereis]

Hello and nice to meet you!
I haven't been to your part of the country, but I have been to Bali and I can confirm that Indonesian food is the best in the world! I hate long flights, but I would brave it again if I could return, it was absolutely stunning! And the people are the nicest we have ever encountered, we loved it there.
Sorry for butting in to your post, but I actually have some pictures of Indonesian food that I will share. Impossible to taste via screen, but trust me, it's amazing.

yessss, seeing the rice already gave my Asian blood a satisfaction

Bali is the 4-hour-flight beach that I talked about If you can please go there, you would love it believe me

[mimosa]

Hello, Any! lovely to read all about you.... I'm pretty sure you're our first member from Indonesia! wonderful!

I have always been fascinated by volcanoes ever since.... well Pompeii, really!

I'd love to have some indonesian food. What are some traditional dishes? (I'm from England... sorry... our food is tragic but we keep on eating it)

We have lots of traditional dishes! Foods in my city were mostly influenced by Chinese, Dutch and Indian cuisines so we have our own version of fried rice, noodles soup, stroppwaffel, naan etc.

I don't know how to describe the food but we have a cake called bika ambon, which is made from tapioca flour and it's inspired from the Dutch. And no, I don't how to make it

We also have minced pork with spices that includes pigs blood. We slow cooked it for around 2 hours and it's one of my favorite food

The food in here is incredibly diverse, that when you go to another city (or even another neighborhood) it would be a whole new world of food adventure!

I am from Dutch heritage, so I know about stroopwafels and salted Dutch licorice and about other Dutchy things and Dutch-Indonesian food. I eat nasi goreng regularly, know about bami, and I was introduced to babi pangang when I met my husband. But I don't make it from scratch like I do most things. I get it in a spice packet (Conimex). But because I have Ethiopian children, I make E-food on occasion as well (like this past Monday).

ME

[OurCreature]

Lake Toba could be a quite exciting place to be if the geology there goes a bit wonky; the lake is in the caldera of a supervolcano that last erupted approximately 75,000 years ago, with world climate-modifying effects. According to Wikipedia it was the biggest explosive volcano eruption in the last 25 million years.

So it is one of those events that you definitely don't want a repetition of anytime soon, like a big eruption of the supervolcano that is beneath Yellowstone Park in the USA.

The Indonesian food in the pictures looks delicious.

[merry]

That food does look and sound, delicious, doesn't it OC! (OC and I are epi... epi.. we love our food )

Lake Toba could be a quite exciting place to be if the geology there goes a bit wonky; the lake is in the caldera of a supervolcano that last erupted approximately 75,000 years ago, with world climate-modifying effects. According to Wikipedia it was the biggest explosive volcano eruption in the last 25 million years.

I have been worried about Yellowstone since I first read about it! Now i have to worry about Lake Toba too!

am from Dutch heritage, so I know about stroopwafels and salted Dutch licorice and about other Dutchy things and Dutch-Indonesian food. I eat nasi goreng regularly, know about bami, and I was introduced to babi pangang when I met my husband. But I don't make it from scratch like I do most things. I get it in a spice packet (Conimex). But because I have Ethiopian children, I make E-food on occasion as well (like this past Monday).

Mim, I absolutely love your posts about food. I want to come and stay with you

[OurCreature]

I was asked in Chat last week if I could post pictures of the New Forest, which is no more than 10 minutes drive from my house - though most of the New Forest National Park is somewhat further away. I quite often enter the Forest at this point as it is the closest entry point to my home. Every entry point has a cattle grid across the road to stop the animals from escaping; within the Forest they hold sway and drivers (usually) make allowances for the fact that the animals often wander along the roads. Outside the Forest it is different.

The Forest is quite well wooded but it isn't a forest in the sense of somewhere like the Black Forest.

The name New Forest refers to when in 1079 William I proclaimed the area to be a Royal Forest ie he and his chums were going to hunt there, and around 20 hamlets and more isolated farmsteads were included in this New big area, hence the name New Forest. The inhabitants probably were forcibly ejected from their homes. A fair chunk of the Forest is heath land or grazing, because the underlying soils are poor. Much of the minerals in the soils have been leached further down and they form an iron pan, which makes the drainage poor and quite a lot of the Forest can get quite boggy.

The animals can wander more or less at will within the Forest but every so often the roads have cattle grids to stop them getting too far from home. Some are more likely to be close to the road than others, like these donkeys who were being good. The maximum speed limit is 40 mph, but less than that in places - IIRC it's 30 mph on this particular road.

Sometimes a car approaches going the opposite way, which I hate when there are animals around. Donkeys, however, are usually quite sensible; though they can be very obstinate if they are standing in the middle of the road and don't see why they should even think of moving so that the traffic can go by. These donkeys behaved themselves.

[OurCreature]

Cattle graze freely, and there are a fair number of them in some parts of the Forest. Just up the road you can see another donkey, who decided to stay put when the Streetview van went past him.

Pigs also graze at particular times of the year. These two are just outside a village called Brook, around 15 minutes from me if you drive at a leisurely pace.

All pics in this and the previous post are from Streetview, apart from the pigs who I stole from the Internet.

[MyWatchBegins]

Thank you so much for sharing these! I enjoyed both the pictures and the information.
Also congratulate your Midge for me, for being the inspiration for the name of a character.

[DaisyNinjaGirl]

That's really fascinating, OC, thanks for sharing. The trees are a lot more spaced out than I'd expected.

[MyWatchBegins]

What my country used to be

And then communism came

The city is Craiova.