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European adventures: March 2010
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Going wherever the fun is! Sunday, 28 March 2010. I seem to travel quite a bit, and therefore believe that it is entirely normal to have had some cock-ups, some of which verge on catastrophe. I’m now accumulating quite an impressive list. 2 Booking the flights the wrong way round. Only realising when checking in online. Rebooking expensively. Interestingly both the first points happened with Easyjet flights; perhaps a sign that one should not travel with them ever! 8 Falling off a horse in a French orcha...
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European adventures: July 2010
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Going wherever the fun is! Saturday, 10 July 2010. Tonibler and Beau Marais. Except he was probably an Ahmed) has actually asked me if I liked Bob Marley. Except he had frenchified the name to the extent that it sounded like Beau Marais. It is one thing that never ceases to amuse me; the localisation of people’s names in a foreign language. A British friend called Ruth who lives in. Saturday, 3 July 2010. The excitement of watching a televised game in a bar here is that you can pretty much guarantee that...
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European adventures: May 2010
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Going wherever the fun is! Saturday, 29 May 2010. A bit of urban architecture and renovation in Brixton. Lovely. Thursday, 13 May 2010. The girl with one shoe. Switzerland, it seems, has similar issues with feet. I feel like my journey home with one shoe on made me see Zurich from a very different light. Or perhaps it just saw me in a different light. Either way, if you intend to rob a bank, I recommend you wear shoes, otherwise you’ll stick out like a sore thumb and will instantly spotted.
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European adventures: The girl with one shoe
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Going wherever the fun is! Thursday, 13 May 2010. The girl with one shoe. Switzerland, it seems, has similar issues with feet. I feel like my journey home with one shoe on made me see Zurich from a very different light. Or perhaps it just saw me in a different light. Either way, if you intend to rob a bank, I recommend you wear shoes, otherwise you’ll stick out like a sore thumb and will instantly spotted. Aw, you poor thing! What wall fell on your foot? Are you able to wear shoes again? A flip flops ban?
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European adventures: December 2009
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Going wherever the fun is! Wednesday, 2 December 2009. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. View my complete profile. My favourite places in Europe.for now. Reggio Emilia, Italy for the food. Bath, UK for its Englishness and cream teas. Florence, Italy; beautiful and alive. Le Marais, Paris. Norway; the fjords, the churches, the horses, the mountains and the architecture are all amazing. Lucerne, Switzerland: definitely one of the world's most beautiful cities.
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European adventures: January 2010
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Going wherever the fun is! Monday, 25 January 2010. Old world, new eyes. Bizarre as it may sound, I find that as I return to places that I knew well as a child or even more recently, I now see them through the eyes rather of a tourist than a local. This is the village where I went to primary school, gym club, Bonfire Night. The picture captures the feeling; I have never seen such a beautiful sunset over the village green. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Old world, new eyes. There was an error in this gadget.
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European adventures: February 2010
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Going wherever the fun is! Friday, 19 February 2010. Http:/ www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/12/polyglot-language-teaching-demand. Languages in the UK will never really catch on. The BBC could help enormously by showing films in VO. In the UK (with the exception of the US), compared with the inter-cultural melange you see and feel on the European continent. Wednesday, 3 February 2010. Pestalozziweg, Zurich. Looking towards the Uetliberg. Totter, totter, totter. Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse leads to P...
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European adventures: Wavin' Flags
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Going wherever the fun is! Saturday, 3 July 2010. The excitement of watching a televised game in a bar here is that you can pretty much guarantee that there will be people from both team's countries present, (unless you head to a bar called Mama Afrika like I did last night for the Ghana game.), so the atmosphere is awesome. So, football really can be a great experience.I think I had let those hooligans back home put me off perhaps. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Tonibler and Beau Marais.
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European adventures: April 2009
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Going wherever the fun is! Friday, 24 April 2009. I apologise if you read this thinking there will be pictures of semi-naked Swiss people. You will be disappointed. I write instead of the Zurich-wide (which pretty much means the tiny centre of Zurich) public holiday that I happily experienced on Monday. It basically involves burning a snowman. I kid you not. And Zurich gets at least a half-day off their tax-evading jobs to celebrate this somewhat pyromaniac. Festive tradition. Excellent. But it all comes...
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European adventures: May 2009
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Going wherever the fun is! Wednesday, 6 May 2009. Cultural conditioning and swimming pools. Walking from the changing rooms to the swimming pool, I realised that living in Britain for the first 19 or so years of my life actually really affected the way I think. Maybe it is obvious, but I have never been consciously aware of this fact. And it was a window that made me realise. I was shocked and uncomfortable because the route from the changing rooms to the pool involves walking past a huge, unfrosted.
