A Trip to Greece – First Time For Everything Arrival I don’t really think that anyone would accuse us more of the the same when we go on overseas trips together, with a recent Puglia road trip, Lake Maggiore with the wives, trekking in Japan, Bruce in Barca and the granddaddy of all trips, The […]
Mark arrived late the previous night after a conference in Riga, so now the gang of four was complete. After a quick cortana and good morning to Ernesto, we were off to an early morning visit to the La Ribera market, the largest covered market in Europe. The market’s website says it opens at 8.30.
Day 1 – Bilbao I don’t want to sound like a spoilt little boy, but what happened to the good old days when you buy a plane ticket, go to the check-in counter, board, land and 30 minutes after deplaning you’re in whatever location you were flying to? Queues, security, more security, more queues, masks,
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Part 3: POST WEDDING I’m going to briefly go back to Hollywood comparisons. What the wedding lacked in contrived, scripted drama was made up for with morning after hangovers that have been the staple of Hollywood comedies since the invention of the motion picture. Some of us left dinners in places other than our stomachs,
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In the lead-up to the wedding I had trouble imagining it. We’ve all been to weddings before but always as a guest. This was different. I couldn’t imagine what it was going to be like, being the “host”, in the wedding entourage. It was just totally foreign to me. I guess when no. 2 comes
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In 2015 a pretty blue-eyed girl meets a shy but interesting guy in Australia. They fall in love. 4 years later they decide they want to get married so they set a date for September 2020. But then the world sort of went into a panicked tailspin and 2020 came and went, with almost no-one
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part 2 Once upon a time there was a pretty blue planet on a far corner of the universe that was divided up into strange little parcels. Some places on the rock were so spread out that people didn’t have to live all crammed up. And then there were places that crammed as many people
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Once upon a time there was a pretty blue rock on a far corner of the universe that was divided up into strange little parcels. Some of these parcels were divided along logical geographical divisions and most were divided randomly and illogically. The monkeys that inhabited these parcels were all convinced that their parcel was
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By a not very talented videographer. I should stick to writing
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