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okenobi
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Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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Who knows what it is without googling it? Is it a thing up there, or not really?
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TheFrenchun
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Location: on the naughty step
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Aperol is a swiss alcohol no? you have it with lemonade?
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Location: IoW
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Aperol was created in Italy in 1919. Its low alcohol content, distinctive orange hue and complex bitter-sweet notes, lent to it by its orange and rhubarb-root ingredients, meant it immediately found its way into the hearts of locals.
Come the summer of 1950: the traditional serve of Venetian white wine and soda evolved to become 3 parts Prosecco, 2 parts Aperol and 1 dash of soda. Served over ice and finished with a slice of orange, Aperol Spritz is the perfect companion to a summer’s day.
Today Aperol is the No.1 aperitif in Italy, and recently won double gold at the San Francisco World Spirits Championships.
Or something like that - I can't really remember all that well without googling...
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leeds_manc
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I have tried it, they are pushing it very hard at the moment, you may as well put a splash of Robinsons into your Prosecco,
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big_D
What's a life?
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It is popular here in Germany as well - we have a large immigrant Italian population.
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okenobi
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Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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So no, in other words, it's not a thing up there.
Leeds, where are you at the moment?
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TheFrenchun
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There's a pub in Surbiton pushing it, there's signs all over the outside
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veato
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Speaking of Italian booze (apart from the Limoncello in my freezer) I was baking a recipe recently that called for Liquore Strega. I left it out.
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big_D
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Yum, don't get me started on Limoncello. Lovely stuff.
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leeds_manc
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Blackburn 
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timark_uk
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timark_uk
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Chris, does the YMCA still have the climbing walls? I spent a lot of my early 20's in there clambering about on those walls. Mark
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leeds_manc
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Dunno, didn't even know there was a YMCA, I just ride my bike around Pleasington and avoid most of the rest of Mordor.
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timark_uk
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The bottom of Sheer Bank Road, near to Corporation Park. It used to be a really good, diverse little set of climbing rooms. Mark
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leeds_manc
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I live on Addison Street (opposite Corporation Park), just off Preston New Road, I don't think that's there any more. I don't think there's much call for anything Christian around here these days 
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