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Travel v tourism

One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.

Freya Stark

Favourite lyrics of 2011

Florence and the Machine - Shake it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S40qyx2N7Ek

Regrets collect like old friends
Here to relive your darkest moments
I can see no way, I can see no way
And all of the ghouls come out to play

And every demon wants his pound of flesh
But I like to keep some things to myself
I like to keep my issues strong
It's always darkest before the dawn

And I've been a fool and I've been blind
I can never leave the past behind
I can see no way, I can see no way
I'm always dragging that horse around

All of these questions, such a mournful sound
Tonight I'm gonna bury that horse in the ground
So I like to keep my issues strong
But it's always darkest before the dawn

Shake it up, shake it out, shake it up, shake it out, ooh woaaah
Shake it up, shake it out, shake it up, shake it out, ooh woaaaah

And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back
So shake him off, oh woah
I am done with my graceless heart
So tonight I'm gonna cut it out and then restart
Cause I like to keep my issues strong
It's always darkest before the dawn

Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh woaaah
Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh woaaah

And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back
So shake him off, oh woah

And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back
And given half the chance would I take any of it back
It's a fine romance but it's left me so undone
It's always darkest before the dawn

Oh woah, oh woah...

And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't
So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road
And I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope
It's a shot in the dark and right at my throat
Cause looking for heaven, for the devil in me
Looking for heaven, for the devil in me
Well what the hell I'm gonna let it happen to me

Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh woaaah
Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh woaaah

And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back
So shake him off, oh woah

Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh woaaah
Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh woaaah

And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back
So shake him off, oh woah

Foo Fighters - Walk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5ymu6yQ2FA

A million miles away
Your signal in the distance
To whom it may concern
I think I lost my way
Getting good at starting over
Every time that I return

I'm learning to walk again
I believe I've waited long enough
Where do I begin?
I'm learning to talk again
Can't you see I've waited long enough
Where do I begin?

Do you remember the days
We built these paper mountains
And sat and watched them burn
I think I found my place
Can't you feel it growing stronger
Little conquerors

I'm learning to walk again
I believe I've waited long enough
Where do I begin?
I'm learning to talk again
I believe I've waited long enough
Where do I begin?

Now
For the very first time
Don't you pay no mind
Set me free again
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsty.com/foo-fighters-walk-lyrics.html ]
To keep alive a moment at a time
But still inside a whisper to a riot
To sacrifice but knowing to survive
The first to climb another state of mind
I'm on my knees, I'm praying for a sign
Forever, whenever
I never wanna die
I never wanna die
I never wanna die
I'm on my knees
I never wanna die
I'm dancing on my grave
I'm running through the fire
Forever, whenever
I never wanna die
I never wanna leave
I never say goodbye
Forever, whenever, forever, whenever

I'm learning to walk again
I believe I've waited long enough
Where do I begin?
I'm learning to talk again
Can't you see I've waited long enough
Where do I begin?

I'm learning to walk again
I believe I've waited long enough
I'm learning to talk again
Can't you see I've waited long enough

Example - Stay Awake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5CcOq8UzkI

If we don't kill ourselves we'll be the leaders of a messed-up generation
If we don't kill ourselves all they believe if we tell them the reasons why?
Did we take it too far, take it too far
Did we chase a rabbit into wonderland
Lose a hundred grand, will they understand
It was all to stay awake for the longest?

March on, always after us
Lost troops, half the class of us
You man ain't seen the last of us
Stick around, yeah like elastoplast
Not half mast, raise our flag, kick the sand,
To let you know that we're coming
And we're nasty men
Don't need sleeping beauty
It's what you do to me
Come midnight and daybreak
Yes please gotta find me a name sake
We got faith, but don't need bibles
Take the michael, hit my recycle while I hold the title
Quite vital, we get high on the opposite of nytol

It was all to stay awake for the longest time
It was long, it was wrong
But it felt so right
See you at the finish line
See you at the finish line
If you got the heart to join us
If we don't kill ourselves we'll be the leaders of a messed-up generation
If we don't kid ourselves will they believe us if we tell them the reasons
Why
Do we take it too far, take it too far?
Did we chase the rabbit into wonderland?
Lose a hundred grand, will they understand
It was all to stay awake for the longest?

March on, always after us
Lost troops, half the class of us
You man aint seen the last of us
Stick around, yeah like elastoplast
Not half mast, raise our flag, kick the sand to let you know that we're coming
And we're nasty man
Don't need sleeping beauty
No, it's what you do to me
Come midnight and daybreak
Yes please gotta find me a name sake
We got faith, don't need bibles
Take the Michael, hit my recycle while I hold the title
Quite vital, we get high on the opposite of nytol

We just grow, if it's late
Then we'll show, we don't wait
We just grow, if you hate
We don't show, we don't wait
We just grow, if it's late
Then we'll show, we don't wait
We just grow

If we don't kill ourselves we'll be the leaders of a messed-up generation
If we don't kill ourselves will they believe us if we tell them the reasons why?
Did we take it too far, take it too far?
Did we chase the rabbit into wonderland?
Lose a hundred grand, will they understand
It was all to stay awake for the longest?

 

Head and Feet of Sheep - from 'Arab World Cook Book'

Take:
Head of one sheep and 8 feet
6 oz laban strained in a sack for 45 minutes
2 tbs salt
5 cloves garlic
1 1/2 oz butter
1 lb toasted Arab bread
1 1/2 oz pine nuts (snobar)
dried mint and red pepper for garnishing

Prepare and cook head and feet.

Mash garlic with salt and mix it with the laban and add dry mint. Ten minutes before it is time to serve, remove meat from the head and feet. Crumble the toasted bread and spread it in a deep, wide platter or tray and sprinkle it with some of the broth in which head was cooked. Cover it with the meat from the head and feet. Pour the laban mixture over it and sprinkle more dry mint and red pepper. Pine nuts which had been roasted in melted butter may be added as the last touch.

The Famous Shawirmah - from 'Arab World Cook Book'

Take about 44 lbs of veal, cut from the leg of a young beef which was butchered 2 days earlier.

Slice meat into round, thin slices about 7 inches in diameter and about 1 inch thick. Cut pieces of fat the same size and thickness as the lean meat.

Marinate the meat in mixture of the following ingredients:

1 tbs cardomom seed
1 tbs mastic
1 1/2 tbs cinnamon
1 tbs nutmeg
1 tbs white pepper
1/2 tbs black pepper
1 lb red onions
5 bay leaves
2 oz garlic
1 qt lemon
1 pt olive oil
2 pts vinegar, good quality
1 tbs cloves
1 1/2 lbs salt

Soak cardamom seed for 6 hours, then grind it fine with its skin. Add 1 tbs salt to the mastic and pound together until very fine. Chop onions fine.

Take part of the spices, salt and pepper and rub into the meat and fat. Place meat in a glass or earthenware container and marinate in a mixture of the above ingredients with onions. Soak for 24 hours keeping it in a refrigerator the temperature of which is 5 degrees centigrade, above zero. Stir the meat from time to time.

As the end of 24 hours, take out of refrigerator and keep at room temperature for 2 hours. All ingredients must warm up to room temperature.

Stick the meat on long skewers or place on a revolving rotisserie. If out skewers, they must be the kind that turns automatically and constantly while the meat is broiling. In sticking the meat on skewers, put one piece of fat between four pieces of lean meat. The skewer must be perpendicular to the fire and very near to it. This could be a hot charcoal fire or strong electric or gas fire. Place it so that the meat is facing the fire.

Have a sharp knife ready and cut the edges of the meat as it broils. Serve it unwrapped in loaves of Arab bread on plates. Sprinkle over it some of its drippings which has gathered in the tray in which the revolving skewer is anchored.

Fried Brain Omelette - from 'Arab World Cook Book'

5 brains of lamb or
2 brains of beef
1 1/2 tbs salt
1/2 tsp white pepper
3 tbs flour
11 oz butter
6 eggs

Boil brains. Cool and cut into rounded pieces and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Break eggs and separate white from yellows. Put egg whites in a deep bowl and beat till it forms thick foam. Add to it the beaten egg yellow. Beat again after adding salt and pepper. Add flour and turn lightly with a spoon. Melt butter in skillet. Dip pieces of brains into the beaten eggs and lift the pieces with a spoon taking some of the eggs with it and drop this into the hot butter. Keep the fried brains warm in a container near the heat until ready to serve. Serve with it vegetables or potatoes.

Mutton Grab - from 'Arab World Cook Book['

Ingredients
1 small lamb about 17 - 18 lbs killed and prepared a day in advance


Melt butter designated for the stuffing in a skillet and fry onions, chopped meat and nuts.  When it is fried remove to a pot and add salt, pepper, saffron, rice and water.  Boil about 5 minutes over high heat, then reduce heat to moderate and cook until done.


Salt the lamb inside out and rub in with pepper.  Stuff with the above stuffing and sew and truss or have it kneeling on its foreleg in a baking pan.  Pour melted butter over it and put in moderately hot oven and bake until done.  Baste it often with melted butter and some of its own juice.  Cover all the top part of it with foil.  Turn lamb from time to time.


When lamb is done remove baking pan and keep hot in another container.  Drain out all but a very little of the butter and sauce in the pan in which the lamb was baked.  Place pan on top of stove and add flour and stir until it turns brown.  Pour over it the liquid that was drained out and saved and let it boil till it begins to thicken.  Pour it into a strainer.  Return the stained sauce to boil a little longer over low heat and keep hot until ready to serve.  If much butter appears on top of sauce, skim it off the top.  Service lamb on large tray or platter and sauce in a separate container.