As I spent a lot of my time in Europe, mainly in France, Spain and the UK, I have become a great connoisseur of things like bottled water that comes directly from the source.
Obviously you have the two main types, fizzy and flat but in and amongst those, you have a whole range of waters that contain different proportions of different minerals. It just depends on what rocks they percolated through before they came up to the bottling plant and it surprises me how different these waters can taste one from another.
Another thing that's very popular in Europe are fruit teas and infusions. Now, we probably are all familiar with lemon tea but what about apricot tea, cherry tea and infusion of mint and licorice or even ginger and lychees. Many of these taste as good cold as they do hot.
So what am I saying here? Simply that we don't need to be limited to stuffs that comes in the bottle and is full of artificial sweetener and other things that we don't need just to enjoy something tasty to drink.
And you know a splash of lemon or lime in water doesn't necessarily need a sweetener. You'll very quickly get use to the refreshing taste particularly if it's iced cold.
Hope that helps,
Mark
