Thursday, 22 August 2013
FREE DELIVERY - GREAT NEWS - FOR ALL OUR LOYAL 'LOCAL' CUSTOMERS -
if you live within the Poole / Bournemouth area contact us via our website to be able to order your coffee free of delivery charges.
What to do - contact us by email via our web site and send us your address to confirm you are a local resident and that we are able to deliver - we will then give you a code to use when ordering on our website that will enable you to recieve your coffee free of delivery charges.
Friday, 21 June 2013
Boz North sponsored by Caer Urfa coffee has done it again another fantastic walk completed this time along Hadrians Wall 84 miles from Bowness on Solway to Segedunum at Wallsend – check out his blog - we took 4 days to complete this walk with a final push on the last day of 30 miles.
Also have a read of his training walk for the Nijmegen March up there in Gareloch Head.
In July Boz North and his TA buddies are taking part in the International Four Day Marches Nijmegen (or Vierdaagse) it’s the largest marching event in the world. It was started in the Netherlands in 1908 as a means of promoting sport and exercise.
A variety of category’s apply but Boz will be completing the Military category:
Military category:
• 40 km x 4 days - Wearing uniform + at least 10 kg backpack for persons ages 18-49 (+ water, etc.)
• 50 km x 4 days
Good luck Boz North and to all of your team from Caer Urfa coffee – looking forward to reading your exciting write up on completion.
Also have a read of his training walk for the Nijmegen March up there in Gareloch Head.
In July Boz North and his TA buddies are taking part in the International Four Day Marches Nijmegen (or Vierdaagse) it’s the largest marching event in the world. It was started in the Netherlands in 1908 as a means of promoting sport and exercise.
A variety of category’s apply but Boz will be completing the Military category:
Military category:
• 40 km x 4 days - Wearing uniform + at least 10 kg backpack for persons ages 18-49 (+ water, etc.)
• 50 km x 4 days
Good luck Boz North and to all of your team from Caer Urfa coffee – looking forward to reading your exciting write up on completion.
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Thrill of a life time that’s what the signage said outside one of the many adventure shops that line Pokharas tourist high street, paragliding looked particularly exhilarating having already seen each morning a flurry of colourful chutes descend the nearby hilltop.
Arriving early for the transport I sat patiently listening to a group of customers making a fuss about cloud cover and views. I was here purely for the ride so didn’t mind missing the views, but was grateful for some entertainment as their moaning did take my mind off what was about to come.
Once the transport arrived and the chutes loaded we travel out of town climbing fast along a crumbly road just missing the edge by centimeters, our destination the top of the Sarangkot. Already in what seems like chaos are many other paragliders in various states of readiness waiting for the right moment to leap.Not being told where to go or what to do I decide to follow one of the occupants from the van. I ask him what I have to do he is rather curt and tells me to wait. Eventually Mac a young Nepalese fellow introduces himself, he’s dressed in denim and looks as if he has just come from having a night out, nevertheless he is friendly enough and puts me into a harness that’s about to be connected to a chute which is already prepared on the ground behind me. He tells me to look down the hill and just walk forward a few steps I feel a tug as the chute rises into the air. Mac comes around the back of me and hooks on, going forward a little more I jump quickly into the seat of the harness, and we are air borne. My fears instantly wane as we leave the ground, the fact that all there was between me and the land was air didn’t matter, we found a thermal and went higher.
With the addition of clear skies the views in all directions were outstanding as we initially fly gently across Lake Phewa and see gleaming on the opposite hillside the Peace Pagoda, we then smoothly on another thermal turn and in the opposite direction behind the Sarangkot see the magnificent Machhapuchhre and Annapurna’s in all their glory. The sun’s rays glistening on their snow covered peaks, certainly a breath taking moment and an enjoyable thrill.
Arriving early for the transport I sat patiently listening to a group of customers making a fuss about cloud cover and views. I was here purely for the ride so didn’t mind missing the views, but was grateful for some entertainment as their moaning did take my mind off what was about to come.
Once the transport arrived and the chutes loaded we travel out of town climbing fast along a crumbly road just missing the edge by centimeters, our destination the top of the Sarangkot. Already in what seems like chaos are many other paragliders in various states of readiness waiting for the right moment to leap.Not being told where to go or what to do I decide to follow one of the occupants from the van. I ask him what I have to do he is rather curt and tells me to wait. Eventually Mac a young Nepalese fellow introduces himself, he’s dressed in denim and looks as if he has just come from having a night out, nevertheless he is friendly enough and puts me into a harness that’s about to be connected to a chute which is already prepared on the ground behind me. He tells me to look down the hill and just walk forward a few steps I feel a tug as the chute rises into the air. Mac comes around the back of me and hooks on, going forward a little more I jump quickly into the seat of the harness, and we are air borne. My fears instantly wane as we leave the ground, the fact that all there was between me and the land was air didn’t matter, we found a thermal and went higher.
With the addition of clear skies the views in all directions were outstanding as we initially fly gently across Lake Phewa and see gleaming on the opposite hillside the Peace Pagoda, we then smoothly on another thermal turn and in the opposite direction behind the Sarangkot see the magnificent Machhapuchhre and Annapurna’s in all their glory. The sun’s rays glistening on their snow covered peaks, certainly a breath taking moment and an enjoyable thrill.
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Monday, 11 March 2013
COFFEE QUOTES
I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.
Hugh Laurie
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR., Over the Teacups
Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
CHRISTOPHER FRY, New York Post, Nov. 29, 1962
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos.
UMBERTO ECO, How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays
I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.
Hugh Laurie
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR., Over the Teacups
Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
CHRISTOPHER FRY, New York Post, Nov. 29, 1962
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos.
UMBERTO ECO, How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Here are a couple of questions for you.
1. Do any of you know what a zebapique is?
2. Has anyone out there heard of the noni fruit?
On a recent visit to Trinidad I met up with Mr. Mendez a local who in his spare time does a little subsistence farming, he’s 65 but is as fit as any 25 year old.
Anyway over a coffee he introduces me to the noni fruit and explains to me its medicinal qualities. It has a very pungent odour says Mr. Mendez its not to be sniffed at but drunk very quickly as the smell is like all kinds of horrible stuff including vomit. He opens the fruit up and lets the juices drip from it and it’s that he and other locals drink. Swearing by the nutrient and medicinal properties it has and claims its one of his elixirs to life.
A little research on good old Google reveals that it’s not just found in the Caribbean but is mainly a fruit grown in Southeast Asia and Australasia, although it is now cultivated throughout the tropics and in some Pacific islands, it is the staple food of that region , that’s either eaten raw or cooked.
Its scientific name is Morindacitrifolia and more interestingly it is a tree that belongs to the coffee family, indeed the leaves look similar to those of the coffee plant Rubiaceae
M. citrifolia grows in shady forests, as well as on open rocky or sandy shores. It reaches maturity in about 18 months and can grow up to 9 m (30 ft) tall, yielding between 4 and 8 kg (8.8 and 18 lb) of fruit every month throughout the year. It is tolerant of saline soils, drought conditions, and secondary soils. It is therefore found in a wide variety of habitats: volcanic terrains, lava-strewn coasts, and clearings or limestone outcrops, here in Trinidad it grows along the side of the road and between cracks in the pavement it’s that prolific.
Mr Mendez then brings out a very long withered looking leaf that looks as if its long past its sell by date it’s the Zebapique he exclaims a popular herb used on the island and the Caribbean, for a number of aliments, most commonly the flu. It is also called “Jackass Bitters” (that belongs to the Asteraceae family and known by its scientific name “Neurolaenalobata”).
In Trinidad the leaves of the Zepapiqueare used to make a tea, which is very bitter and also used for its medicinal values mainly for the flu, cough, or fever. Interestingly enough and once again exploring on Google the leaves of the Zebapique contain a potent anti-parasitic agent called sesquiterpenedialdhyde which is effective against intestinal parasites and fungal infections. It states it can also be used to control diabetes and could heal wounds and infections as well as being a good insecticide. Maybe this is what we should have taken on our West Highland Way walk to combat those pesky midges. (See previous entry’s ref whw)
1. Do any of you know what a zebapique is?
2. Has anyone out there heard of the noni fruit?
On a recent visit to Trinidad I met up with Mr. Mendez a local who in his spare time does a little subsistence farming, he’s 65 but is as fit as any 25 year old.
Anyway over a coffee he introduces me to the noni fruit and explains to me its medicinal qualities. It has a very pungent odour says Mr. Mendez its not to be sniffed at but drunk very quickly as the smell is like all kinds of horrible stuff including vomit. He opens the fruit up and lets the juices drip from it and it’s that he and other locals drink. Swearing by the nutrient and medicinal properties it has and claims its one of his elixirs to life.
A little research on good old Google reveals that it’s not just found in the Caribbean but is mainly a fruit grown in Southeast Asia and Australasia, although it is now cultivated throughout the tropics and in some Pacific islands, it is the staple food of that region , that’s either eaten raw or cooked.
Its scientific name is Morindacitrifolia and more interestingly it is a tree that belongs to the coffee family, indeed the leaves look similar to those of the coffee plant Rubiaceae
M. citrifolia grows in shady forests, as well as on open rocky or sandy shores. It reaches maturity in about 18 months and can grow up to 9 m (30 ft) tall, yielding between 4 and 8 kg (8.8 and 18 lb) of fruit every month throughout the year. It is tolerant of saline soils, drought conditions, and secondary soils. It is therefore found in a wide variety of habitats: volcanic terrains, lava-strewn coasts, and clearings or limestone outcrops, here in Trinidad it grows along the side of the road and between cracks in the pavement it’s that prolific.
Mr Mendez then brings out a very long withered looking leaf that looks as if its long past its sell by date it’s the Zebapique he exclaims a popular herb used on the island and the Caribbean, for a number of aliments, most commonly the flu. It is also called “Jackass Bitters” (that belongs to the Asteraceae family and known by its scientific name “Neurolaenalobata”).
In Trinidad the leaves of the Zepapiqueare used to make a tea, which is very bitter and also used for its medicinal values mainly for the flu, cough, or fever. Interestingly enough and once again exploring on Google the leaves of the Zebapique contain a potent anti-parasitic agent called sesquiterpenedialdhyde which is effective against intestinal parasites and fungal infections. It states it can also be used to control diabetes and could heal wounds and infections as well as being a good insecticide. Maybe this is what we should have taken on our West Highland Way walk to combat those pesky midges. (See previous entry’s ref whw)
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Coming soon Nepalese coffee
Caer Urfa coffee have just received samples of green beans from Nepal - it’s hoped that after roasting and tasting we will go ahead and purchase larger amounts and so increase our selection of coffees from around the world.
Our aim is to supply not only our on line customers but also the many Nepalese stores and restaurants in the Bournemouth and Poole area.
Why Nepalese coffee? Well we are always looking for something different to offer to our customers and after spending a recent fun filled fantastic holiday in this wonderful, colourful country we couldn’t help but look at what the recent coffee crops were on offer from Nepal.
We will keep you updated in our Blog when this coffee becomes available.
Single plantation
100% organic
Shade grown
Wet processed
Hand sorted
Sundried
Caer Urfa coffee have just received samples of green beans from Nepal - it’s hoped that after roasting and tasting we will go ahead and purchase larger amounts and so increase our selection of coffees from around the world.
Our aim is to supply not only our on line customers but also the many Nepalese stores and restaurants in the Bournemouth and Poole area.
Why Nepalese coffee? Well we are always looking for something different to offer to our customers and after spending a recent fun filled fantastic holiday in this wonderful, colourful country we couldn’t help but look at what the recent coffee crops were on offer from Nepal.
We will keep you updated in our Blog when this coffee becomes available.
Single plantation
100% organic
Shade grown
Wet processed
Hand sorted
Sundried
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