The Mint

Adventures through western europe and beyond including many a mint tea, tapas, plently of beers even some port and sherry thrown in, oh almost forgot the sightseeing and travelling mishaps and crazy adventures!

... Buildings Survey, conducted by the Library of Congress (September, 1958), writes: Architectural and Historical Significance The San Francisco Mint was, until the passage of the Coinage Act of 1873, but a branch of the parent establishment at ...

... go to uni in Leeds. Obviously the names above will make no sense to anyone who was actually on the trip though, so yeah I, Mint Slice, met Winnie, Flange, Chris, Claire, Dan, Sophie, Shamus, Caitlin, Mary-Kate, Ashley, Tracey, Bi and Jerry! Not ...

... eating our fish & chips on the beach, surrounded by hungry seagulls, it was back to Perth. I’d been told about the Royal Mint, which had a demonstration of gold pouring that interested me. In order to see the gold, I had to go on a guided tour. ...

... building, so we decided why not? We were a little early for the tour, so we spent some time checking out the "boutique" in the mint. We had the opportunity to hold a bar of gold, which weighed 28 pounds, and its current value is $609,000. We were rich!!! ...

... $30, a mere smidgen of the original gabannas priced around $700. Philip enjoyed reading about the history of the old Charlotte Mint, for which the museum is named.  The Mint was operated in Charlotte until seized by the Confederates in the civil ...

... excuse any spelling mistakes here.........these arabic keyboards a quite confusing)at 3am in the morning. and there we waited drinking mint tea with a brother and sister from casablanca who befriended us on the 11 hour bus ride throught the rif ...

... look. Grabbed lunch at a Subway and went to a nearby park to eat. It was very relaxing. Next we went to visit the Perth Mint were we saw a gold pour and toured the mint. The mint also doesn't allow pictures inside (www.perthmint.com.au/gc/). We had ...

... see him later. We wander off to visit another of Alex’s friends who is also extremely welcoming and hospitable – more mint tea flowing – I really am getting addicted to this stuff. Again we chat about life and Alex recounts various funny ...

After standing in line outside for awhile, we all took a tour of the Denver Mint, located downtown. The tour is free and lasts 15 to 20 minutes. The Denver Mint has been in service since 1863. It was quite interesting to learn about the process of ...

... looking for dice so we could play Yumms and bumped into Cindi and Sam who we met in Essouira so went and had shisha and mint tea with them. Turned out they were staying at the same place and didn't know about the midnight curfew so lucky for them we ...

... have to sign a disclaimer before visiting! So we opted for a nice walk around the town and a far safer visit to the Mint Museum, where they previously made all of the Bolivian coins. The most interesting part was the mint machine itself which was huge... ...

Went to Perth Mint today... which was actually quite interesting. Found out about history of gold mining in WA and how the mint came to be there. Got to touch a REAL GOLD BAR!! It was really heavy and we couldn't lift it. A bus woman buzzed off us ...

... how far away our gate was from the train...all that we were thinking was s**t.. "right..what do we do...." "ditch the peach and mint cooler for a start (sad times, didnt even get to try any!!), then run!" This experience was all very new to us, as ...

... on their heads (possibly not politically correct but they really did). This afternoon I went to visit what used to be a mint (where they make coins). I had an extremely interesting tour around it (in English). We saw the wooden clockwork machines that ...

... -Smoked first Hookah! -Amazing Hospitality -Gale -Paid 90 dh for train here -10dh for ice cream -Muslims pray about 5 times a day -Mint Tea -Delicous (12 cubes of sugar tho) -Shower besides, nearly above toilette -5dh coke -Got haircut by local barber, ...

Gutted we were upon arrival at Otorahanga and the realisation that there was NO MINT TIFFIN!!!  WTF?!  Yes, as you can guess we were pretty much unamused!  Hours later we were still saying things like 'Can't believe we came all the way from ...

... neat  - it is amazing to think that all of Celestial Seasonings teas comes from this little factory.  They have a mint room where they store peppermint, catnip, and spearmint, mom loves this room and can stay in there throughout the entire ...