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The final day of my advent calendar. A sad day! I wish this could go on forever, but it can't (can it?)! I have found a delightful new assortment of tea. Some I have already tried, others lie still ahead of me. Today, I found a Neuhaus chocolate and a roibos called Oranje Trüffel (Dutch truffles). If you know what Oranje Trüffels are, please let me know by leaving a comment. I had first thought of a code name for products sold in Amsterdam. But then it occured to me: this has to be legal. Otherwise Dehlwisch would not be allowed to sell it in Germany. But I still can't figure what these truffles are. They smell wonderful and I shall try the tea soon. For now, I have to pack all my stuff! It's time to travel to Osnabrück - Christmas time, folks. Get some last minute presents and some old-fashioned non-digital photo material to take some enjoyable pix.

From now, this blog is closed down for a few days...

Happy holidays to all of you!!

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On December 23rd my beautiful advent calendar was again full of surprise: I found a Ceylon Elephant Brand. Never heard of this, have you? Well, me neither. It smells very strong - but not like elephant at all. Lucky me, I guess ;-)

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On December 22nd I found a Lapacho Vanille tea in my advent calendar. It is not a herbal tea! Unfortunately, I have not yet found the time to taste it but the smell is very very promising: vanilla, vanilla, vanilla...

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I found an Erdbeer Pfeffer (Strawberry Pepper) tea in my advent calendar. This is probably the strangest kind of tea I have ever seen! It smells like strawberry and contains peppercorns. Can you guess the color? Inspired by the strawberries I suppose Dehlwisch had to use red peppercorns! Interesting selection! Do you wanna know how it tastes like? Well, it actually tastes real good as the pepper gives some spice to the strawberries. Quite harmonic, although very much unexpected. A great recommendation for a special tea gift...

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On December 20th I my advent calendar offered a good old English BreakfastTea. This one is for Sundays!!

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Today, I found a Cinese white tea in my advent calendar door along with another Neuhaus chocolate. The tea is called Pai Mu Tan.
I already enjoyed the chocolate and have the water boiling for the tea. Happy fourth Sunday in advent!

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You wanna know what I had in today's advent calendar door? Number 18 ... and about one more week to go! So far, it has been a magnificent time and there is more to come: today I found an orange pekoe called Java Malabar. It tastes delicious... and I still have some Lompen left to sweeten it a bit!

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Today I discovered a wonderful Mango tea in my advent calendar. I love mango!!

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December 16th. The tooth day. A few more minutes before leaving to the dentist. I thought opening my advent calendar door #16 would cheer me up! And it did: I found a green Formosa Gunpowder tea. The leaves look quite like gunpowder. I wonder why this tea got it's name??? Anyway, I won't have time to drink anything for the next few hours. :-((

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Today I found a Darjeeling FTGFOP Badamtam tea in my advent calendar. As I did not have time to have a good cup of tea yesterday evening, I am now enjoying yesterday's Sanddorn Sahne tea. Very lovely, indeed!

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Next to another trip to Bonn, this day offered a Sanddorn Sahne Rooibusch (sea buckthorn cream roibos) tea in door #14 of my advent calendar. Only 10 more days to go...

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Today I discovered a Chinese Tarry Lapsang Souchong tea in my advent calendar. Unfortunately, as it was a very long business day I cannot try it tonight. Instead I shall enjoy a nice roibos tea from one of the other days...

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Sunday, the 12th. Half of the advent calendar has been opened, the second half to go! You wanna know what was inside? Well, today I got a Spicy Chai tea which goes with a lot of milk. How fortunate I was: lucky me had just bought two liters of milk, yesterday. So here I am updating this blog and enjoying a cup of Chai together with a wonderful Neuhaus chocolate. Excellent Sunday, I may add. Although I have to study for my psychology exam. A cup of good tea always makes studying easier. What a motto!

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Today, my advent calendar surprise is a green Darjeeling TGFOP1 called Phoobsering. I am still wondering, whether this tea is Denglish. If it is I am wondering whether it contains a spelling mistake. The water for it is boiling, but I hope I won't start "pubsing" afterwards... ;)

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On December 10th, the wonderful advent calendar by Shelak & Raven contained a tea called Ostfriesische Broken Mischung (East-Frisian Broken Mixture), a rather strong tea - as Frisian and Naturelichans around the world love it...

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Having opened todays advent calendar box, I envision myself as Alfred Biolek saying the name of today's tea over and over again: Kürbissimo - with Alfred's funny lisp voice. Kürbissimo (Maximum pumpkin) is a rooibos tea with pieces of honeydew melon and apple plus sunflower + nettle leaves. The water is already boiling!

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On December 8, my beautiful advent calendar contained China Rosen Tee (Chinese Rose Tea). I still have not tried this one, due to some other events happening today, but shall enjoy this delight over the weekend!

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December, 7: The day after Nikolaus. A very difficult day in every advent calendar's life. Expectations are rising, since Nikolaus has this huge wonderful goodie inside. The 7th door can only loose! Always - each and every year since I am capable of opening advent calendars - the day after Nikolaus has always been a great disappointment. The chocolates were smaller, or the engravements were not as cool as Nikolaus himself. Even in my sisters advent calendar which I probably was not supposed to open (anyway.)

So, you wanna know what I got today?

Well, I have become a beta tester now, as today's bag was filled with an Assam tea, second flush FTGFOP1, called Budla Beta. Apparently, a product not yet ready for release, containing lots of bugs and without the full functionality of a full release...?!

But...

...together with these Aachener Printen I bought from our local bakery store it is delicious. Maybe I should be a beta tester more often.... :) Happy Dec. 7, 2004!

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On December 6th, the advent calendar bag was reaaaaally huge (see above). Nikolaus probably thought I behaved well last year. No objections from me... :)
The bag held Honeybush tea (Honeybusch Süße Sünde = Honeybush sweet sin). I have never tried Honeybush tea before! Nikolaus therefore put some additional info into the bag: Honeybush herb tea is apparently extracted from a plant in africa and contains little tanning agents and zero "Teein". It contains calcium, potassium and magnesium and needs to boil for 20 minutes. Which leaves enough time to enjoy another Lompen - a special kind of black sugar. These Lompen(s?) (a very special kind of sugar) make the tea a very sweet experience. Thanks Nikolausi....

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Today I found a Neuhaus chocolate candy and a Sencha Kaktus-Feige (prickly pear green tea). It's a wonderful delight from Dehlwisch... :)

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Today, I discovered an Orange Oolong in #4 of my beautiful advent calendar. My tea cabinet is getting more and more filled. Almost all drawers are full... But the weekend lies ahead and I will enjoy the one or the other pot of delicious tea. Enjoy and relax!

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Mmmmmmhhh..... Another day, and a wonderful new tea: Crème Caramel Rooibos. And I am already enjoying a pot! Yummieee!

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What a beautiful morning. First thing to do after getting up was to open the next advent calendar "door": I found a Darjeeling autumnal Bannockburn FTGFOP1. Cool, another delicious tea which I will try this evening - oh, and BTW, the Oolong from yesterday way marvelous!

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Yippieehhh! I just took the chance to open my first advent calendar "door"...

Today I found a very lovely Formosa Oolong Fine Champagne tea. Next thing for me to do is boil some water, guys. For those of you who are interested you can visit Dehlwisch to get your own Oolong tea... Thanks to Raven & Shelak !!! ;)

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I just got a wonderful present from Raven & Shelak: a hand-made Advents-Calendar. Each day during December , I will let you know that day's details...

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