The Taproom

Cheers, and thank you, hic! :rolleyes:

Can’t wait to hear the answer to this one 😎

Here I am!
Where is the hot chocolate????

Rhuooommm … I will have to contemplate about that … huoommmmm … thoughI still don’t know what it means … huom

hah!

The ferry goes from here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver

to here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria,_British_Columbia

(and its nowhere near as nice looking as those pictures imply. They are all about how English they are, but apparently someone’s idea of the most uberly English thing ever is Milton Keynes. As such the city gets less classy looking rather quickly)

Victoria is said to be “the land of the newly wed and nearly dead” – the idea being was that the cost of living was cheap enough that young professionals could buy a place in the Victoria sprawl, as opposed to renting in Vancouver. However, the place has gotten remarkably more expensive, without having much to show for this expense. So now, its the land of the nearly dead – and the police have been known to arrest you for being under the age of 30 without due care and consideration. (There’s a big university in the middle of it all, so the gap between the elders and the students is…large).

You know that Father Ted episode about Eoin McLove and his elderly fans? I was reminded of that episode frequently.

Anyway, the ferry between is an hour and a half ride through some beautiful maritime scenery, though the boat itself is a sort of cleaned up version of something the average European might go on a booze cruise on. You can sit in the rubbish eatery and look at gorgeous stuff outside. And, if one is bored, one might be tempted to go onto MMP and read the latest mithril gossip.

Assuming the server allowed you, that is.

Wargs?
Of course NOT, Master Theo. Those wainriders surely have got horses. I am sure about that.
Those small “Steppe” horses would be very authentic, but I assume, that normal Tubb-horses would be perfect as well.
I try to convert a chariot months ago ( I have mentioned it somewhere else . . . ) taking horses from “gamezone”.
But they look a bit like brewery-horses . . .
Not sophisticated at all . . .

Huoommm … thank you very much … so both of you seem to remember them Wainriders from the East… rhuoomm … as for you, Master Erchamion, I value your judgement very much … huom … though the chariots drawn by just two horses were more effective in terms of speed and steering … huom … so horses the wainriders used, no wargs … the weapons they used were sets of javelins and bows …. right? … I think our barkeep can help with this too … hommm … I’ll keep on considering this matter … huoommm …

Indeed, Master Barliman. In the Spanish edition is said literally in Appendix A: “[Los aurigas] viajaban en grandes carromatos, y sus capitanes luchaban en cuádrigas“

In Spanish, Quadriga = 4 horses, to differentiate it from the Triga = 3 horses and Biga = 2 horses (all from the Latin, of course). Although it is more logical than you and Master Tree say about biga/two horses chariot