Martini Mandate in Cape Town
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Tales from a traveller
“I like to have a martini, two at the very most – after three I’m under the table, after four, I’m under my host.”Dorothy Parker
“I never have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be large and very strong and very cold, and very well made.”James Bond
“He knows just how I like my martini – full of alcohol.”Homer Simpson
"Happiness is…finding two olives in your martini when you’re hungry."Johnny Carson
"One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough."
James Thurber
"I had never tasted anything so cool and clean. They made me feel civilized."
Ernest Hemingway
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