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Entries from June 28th, 2007
Guy Watson for PM
June 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Main thread
Well, Gordon Brown has finally taken over from the increasingly deranged Tony Blair, who will presumably now be dedicating this time to achieving a sainthood or somesuch (he’s already reportedly sequeing from self-righteous Catholic church-attendee to actual fully signed up member of the Catholic church. There’s talk of him becoming some sort of peace envoy [...]
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Floods and a funeral
June 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Main thread
It’s rainy. It’s rainy a lot. I realise we had two years of less than average rainfall over 2005 and 2006, which left us with heavily depleted reservoirs and hosepipe bans, but this is getting silly. It’s supposed to be the summer. I thought, coming back from our travels, at least it wouldn’t be too [...]
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This blog
June 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments · Main thread
This blog was started with the sole aim of covering our round-the-world trip, which we embarked on last November. Now we’re home, that purpose is obviously going to shift. Hence, I’ve bunged all the entries into a World tour category, freeing up this main thread area for whatever blather comes to mind.
Seeing as I’m rather [...]
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Some places we stayed and ate during out world trip
June 21st, 2007 · No Comments · World tour 11/06-06/07
EDIT June 07:
I kinda gave up with this section, though it was good in principle.
Here’s some discussion of places we’ve stayed, had meals and boozed, which may be helpful for people Googling, but will also be a satisfying way to get things off my chest…
Lotus Suites, Mumbai, India
This is the first played we stayed. [...]
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The End
June 17th, 2007 · No Comments · World tour 11/06-06/07
Of our round-the-world trip at least.
We’re back in the UK, though not back in London as our tenants have the house until next month (when we were supposed to be getting home).
After five very pleasant days in Toronto with Fran’s old chum Sara, and a day in groovy Montreal (where, as an aside, we did a terrible [...]
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Grand Theft Coca-Cola
June 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Main thread
Despite my contempt for the Coca-Cola brand, I was quite tickled by their new Grand Theft Auto spoof advert, which we saw in the cinema today.
Basically, it inverts the behaviour GTA is critised for. A Tommy Vercetti style character is seen riding around a GTA-esque urban environment. He buys a Coke, he pulls a guy [...]
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Or not…
June 12th, 2007 · No Comments · World tour 11/06-06/07
We’re trying to move onwards, but seem to be somewhat stuck in Toronto. Tried to change our BA flight home, but they told us to ring QANTAS. Couldn’t reach them, their number just took us to an eternal limbo of hold music and exasperation. Half hour in: “please, just answer…”; hour in: “damn you, there [...]
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Onwards
June 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments · World tour 11/06-06/07
Travelodge LAX
I’ve always been intrigued by the notion of staying in an airport hotel. This life-long fascination (which has its origins in the same period of my childhood when the idea of going to a Little Chef seemed thrilling) was satisfied by a night at the remarkably pleasant LAX Travelodge. Heck, you could almost spend [...]
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Birds and palm trees
June 6th, 2007 · No Comments · World tour 11/06-06/07
It’s our final night in Mexico, tomorrow night we’ll be staying in a McHotel at LAX.
It’s been great here, and this past week it’s been kinda nice to be sitting around in environments where there are birds soaring over palm trees. We started our trip with amazing numbers of hawks soaring over the palms of [...]
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