10 days in the Algarve.
I don't expect to hear we've signed Mbappe in my absence
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10 days in the Algarve.
I don't expect to hear we've signed Mbappe in my absence
I trust you've voted postally many times?Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
err, I did mean to but then what with the mother's stroke. I forgot to actually post the bloody forms. In fairness, our 2 votes will make no difference. Trafford is Labour and will forever be so, I'm afraidQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Have fun - just got back from 27/28 degrees in Greece to pissing down with rain here :(Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Yeah but the good news is that you are no longer surrounded by Greeks or have to eat Greek food.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
:-( It's no fun taking the pïss out of Greeks or Greek food without Nic here to get irate about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Yes, I thought that as well as I posted it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I hoped Luis might offer a token defence of them. There wouldn't be nearly the deranged passion but beggars can't be choosers etc
There was a mandarin duck in a lake near where i live (it escaped from a wildlife park). I was going to post a picture of it but there just wasn't any point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
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Originally Posted by PSRB
.....or on your return
Ate rather wonderfully well, actually. Simple cuisine but very nice. The lamb shank I had in the town's best restaurant was quite superb. As for the people, they were very nice, couldn't do enough for you. I would much rather be surrounded by Greeks than, for example, Canadian, who tend to be boorish oafs, in my experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
And finally - :hehe: seriously, how someone who actually chooses to holiday in the cesspit that is Dubai can comment on any other destination is beyond me
Nah, Greece is a dump, the people are miserable and unhelpful and describing the food as basic is being kind. What it really is is boring at best and awful at worst.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
And I have never taken a holiday in Dubai in my life. I fly into Dubai, and then transfer to a wonderful resort in Fujairah where the staff are fantastically helpful, the weather is hot and sunny and the food is magnificent. Now you could rightly point out that I haven't actually holidayed in Fujairah, I have just sat in a resort in Fujairah. Which is true, and that's the way I want it.
Put my resort in Greece and would I go to it? Certainly, provided it contained no miserable, unhelpful Greeks and they had nothing to do with my food. Hope that helps. :thumbup:
You might as well have just written there "My name is WES, I am a thick, ignorant **** with no imagination" tbfQuote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
I'm glad you enjoy your holidays in the UAE - they sound incredibly tedious but that seems to suit you.
Thanks for letting me know that all the happy, helpful Greeks I encountered were in fact miserable and unhelpful. And as I said, the food was lovely. But you know best obviously. Stupid ****
psssst, he's Canadian, they don't get out much, and when they do it's a mistakeQuote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Yes, I enjoy spending time with my family in a wonderful resort with wonderful weather. Playing with my children in the ocean is a particular source of fun but just generally having the family together in a completely relaxed atmosphere is something we have always enjoyed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
I guess it's tedious and that suits all of us and you know best obviously. Stupid c*nt.
BTW, I don't actually hate all Greek food and not all Greeks are miserable, but there was a time when you could make glib overstatements on AWIMB and people wouldn't take them seriously. I guess being sober in Germany must be hard on you.
Could you please stop saying 'resort'. Just the thought of it makes me depressed.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
What makes you think I am sober :)Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Besides I was going for deranged passion as requested :(Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
You used to feel the same about self-catering, so you may change your mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I think the very worst thing on earth must be a cruise, though. When I was in Amsterdam, there was a cruise ship moored up outside our hotel and all the ancient, nearly-dead American tourists were milling around the place shouting and asking staff where the 'restrooms' were. I thought about being trapped on a boat at sea with such people for days on end and nearly collapsed.
Self-catering? Is this some sort of sick personal attack?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I 'take a cottage'. I most certainly do NOT 'self-cater'.
:hehe: Embrace it, my friend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Good for you. That sort of thing makes you go blind, so I gather.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
You'd love them if you had children, Charles. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Oh yes. Did one once as the family in Canada insisted upon for a sort of family reunion for Dad's 80th thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
To call it hell would be an understatement. :-(
Oh, well, if that was a Nic substitute play then there is only one thing to say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Well played. :thumbup:
Thank you my friendQuote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella