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Contact me by e-mail and I'll give you some suggestions.

I would reccomend Piccolo Mondo just off Robeson st. I've been twice and the food and service were superb. My only complaint was the all Italian wine list- difficult if you don't know Italian wines. I had the rudest waiter at Le Crocodile - will never go back. Hermitage was quite good, not the best in the city though. There is also a fantastic crepe place in the same area, can't remember the name but it was really good. It's run by a guy from Brittany who imports his own cider and Hydromel (mead) made from buckwheat flower honey.

Wear a winter coat!!!

:-)

A foul calumny!

The last few years we didn't go below about -2º C.(about 28 for the non-metric).

Last winter was indeed colder at -7º (20 F) but that's unusual.

We are a solid zone 8b and get through many years as a marginal zone 9 here

What are you now...the dept are tourism for winter paradise locations :-)

...No, you just need a raincoat... and rose colored glasses, Vancouver tends to be a little grey that time of year.... Sorry Bill, but I used to live there.

Cheers Mathew

Sunny and 5 deg C. today.......to all those freezing in the East. Better liquid rain than solid, I say!

Solids rule...at least we can make yellow snow!

Here in the UK, we have a potential White Xmas, or so the forecasters say, rare as hens teeth.

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And in Oslo, Norway, there is no snow, rain and +3C. That's a bit out of the ordinary, or rather, used to be, before global warming...

You don't really beleive in global warming to you? Every one knows this is just a heat wave.

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Here in Melbourne it's warm and sunny 35C today and similar I imagine on Christmas day. When the locals insist on having a northern European lunch - turkey, ham, roast pork, roast spuds Christmas pudding etc - often accompanied by a bottle or three of sparkling shiraz and a few cans of Fosters. . Just the thing to send you comatose on a hot afternoon.

We were in Vancouver in May and loved it. I can highly recommend the Bin 941 Tapas Parlour.

Cheers! Martin

Hi Richard, "yellow snow", hope your not thinking what I'm thinking that you're thinking. That would certainly be disgusting. :-)

Have a happy Holiday season and Cheers! Dick R.

Of course "your" should be "you're", and we've had a couple of Tom & Jerry's ... and they were good!

Dick R.

....Spoken like a true non-skiier..... ;-)

Mathew

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:-) A pretty long wave... You know, of the 10 hottest years on the global record, 9 were in the last decade, 1996 being the exception. The effects are visible to most people, especially up here in the north where the line between life and death is thinner than in many other locations. To stay on topic, vineyards have been planted in Norway, Sweden and Denmark... :-) Anders

The earth is millions of years long...whats 10 years in the scheme of that.

Remember the ice age...and only a few years ago the same scientist thought we were on a return to the ice age...now it's global warming.

I met with a meteorologist last year that explained that the storms on the suns surface are cyclical and that is the real root of the issue. That does not mean we cannot do better.

Now the real scary thing is that this can go another 1000 years and still be a short term cycle.

Hope you are not planting Cabernet up there.

Been growing cab and shiraz for years with no problems in BC.

I will be concerned if the Crush begins in March then we know its global warming.