I wish I'd taken a Santa-sack of vitamin C, got some sleep, sipped water, and taken more exercise instead of pogo-sticking while downing an alcopop.
But the road was calling, just as it had done yesterday, when neither of us had wanted to leave Dar Ayniwen, a beautiful house in Marrakech's Palmeraie suburb, where we had lazed on the terrace and sipped gin and tonics as the call to prayer echoed through the dusk.
"I stuffed my face while he sipped a mud-coloured health shake," says Mendes.
Each evening we stood at our window – no, we still didn't have a terrace – and sipped our homemade spritz while watching the vaporetto cruise by.
In fact, our two tiny balconies weren't much bigger than the two-star windowsills where we'd sipped vino years earlier.
The study surveyed 561 Rhode Island middle school children over three years and found that at the age of 11, about 30% had sipped alcohol, mostly from their parents' glasses.
With smooth labels and prices high enough to carry a hint of snob value, a new crop of young winemakers is planning to provide something hip to Mexico's young, upwardly mobile middle class.In a land where about 1m new beer drinkers come of age each year and where tequila is sipped lovingly, this is a tough sell.
Public school girls sipped Red Stripe beers next to old Jamaican rastas.
After five minutes, the brew is ready to be sipped accompanied by expressions of bliss of a sort that in the West accompany bottles of over-priced wine.
But at Wisconsin's state fair earlier this month, not too far from the racing pigs and the Cream Puff Pavilion, a genteel group sipped Wisconsin-made wine.
In 1904 a crowd in Mississippi sipped lemonade and nibbled devilled eggs as they watched a black couple being mutilated and burned.
