I've never had a busier time here
... and yet I need to spend several hours tonight driving to Normandy and back to swap cars. As some of you know, we found our car with broken windows on the day of going on holiday, and the family ended up leaving using our neighbors' car. Now the car has been repaired, but the neighbors need to leave before the family comes back (and before I can go over there for a week-end),thus the need for a quick swap. You'll be happy that I've at least been able to find people to carry on the way and back, so at least I'm not driving alone. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
I've at least been able to find people to carry on the way and back
It's to be hoped you didn't coerce anybody into this... ;)
Who's on holiday?
Bob's recent photos of Paros are making us think that some cheap flights and a week on an island in early September would be a good idea ...
However, I will be taking some time off end of August. :-)
Have been running around today getting a new battery for my Land rover cos the old one ceased to be reliable, some days no problem, other days, dead. Then a mad search for over an hour to find my tent and remember how it goes up. Now I've got to pack, dive into tesco tomorrow for much beer. keep to the Fen Causeway
I just can't imagine going to the shit-heaps I attended in my youth, especially now I've lost the piss-against-the fence equipment. keep to the Fen Causeway
It all depends how I feel after I've made all the trips from the car park to where my pitch will be. usually at that point food, beer, catching up with friends (we only meet at WOMAD these days so lot's of chat) and meeting the new little 'uns takes precedence. keep to the Fen Causeway
Alright. alright, I'm exaggerating slightly. But the fact is that Finns pay good money to go and live in their spartan weekend cottages with a PuuCee out the back. A PuuCee is a wooden shed with a bench and a hole in it, and a big bucket underneath. There's usually a smaller bucket containing moss, wood chips or sand that you throw on the pile when you are finished, to control odour. It gets emptied at the end of the summer . which is no job to do with a hangover, I can assure you.
On the whole (pun) the PuuCee offers communion with nature and the chance to meditate. 7 year old magazines and comic books are available for the crapping reader and it's OK to smoke.
I once used one that was installed in half a wooden boat on end. It was like a little chapel. I've also used one designed minimally by one of Finland's leading architects. At old country schools there used to be long sheds with benches and maybe 10 holes. Yes, it was a group activity. You can't be me, I'm taken
En France, plusieurs sites de covoiturage existent, gratuits pour la plupart. Toutefois, ils souffrent tous d'une faible fréquentation, probablement à cause du grand nombre de sites existants. De plus, la plupart des sites de petites annonces gratuites proposent aussi une rubrique de covoiturage. D'ailleurs, certains sites de petites annonces locales disposent plus d'offres de covoiturage qu'un site spécialisé, pour un trajet identique.
The most common type of trickster in Budapest must be the guys who stop people in railway main stations, and claim that they were robbed upon arrival, and need money to travel home/pay the rent for a day/whatever. I must have waved off dozens before. But with this one, the appearance seemed to fit the story (poor guy from the countryside coming to work in the capital as a cook) and he had many details, so I saw a 50% chance that this guy is genuine... but he didn't appear to give my money back at 2pm today.
Whatever... I only lost the equivalent of €20 (about the price of the umbrella I also lost this week). *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Imagine his embarassement: a Neapolitan ripped off by a German tourist...
