It doesn’t seem that your Madrid trip will be recalled with fondness, if it wasn’t for the bad luck you’re having you’d be having no luck at all. Wishing MrsGG a speedy recovery. Possibly the Lemon didn’t agree with MrsGG’s constitution?
Stuck at Kefalonia airport should have taken off at 12,30 now 6,15 we will see but I got a food voucher for 8€ should get me twiglet at there prices.
Thanks. Despite the issues (which are, tbh, first world problems; if I don’t see the football I’ll survive and I can buy another pair of sunglasses) we have both enjoyed it. The hotel is great for what we want of one (well situated, clean comfy bed and a decent shower), public transport is good and cheap (€0.61 per journey) and there is some fantastic architecture and museums. We’d both recommend coming here and may well come back. I’ll pass Mrs GG your kind wishes when she comes out of the small room…
I’ve been doing some patch repairs on my Caddy van, it’s 19 years old now and a rear and front arch has started to bubble up. I’m just trying to keep it going as long as possible as it’s still a great van.
Thanks for the recommendation, my partner wants a break somewhere but doesn’t like flying far if at all and Madrid was one of my suggestions.
After a similar experience in Barcelona in a restaurant off the Plaça de Espanya, we are very wary of where we eat now in Spain. Look for where the older generation Spanish prefer to eat. Hope Mrs GG feels a lot better soon. Andy
Commiserations to lady GG, it's somehow much worse when on holiday isn't it? I can empathise 100% having just today finally confirmed and admitted to myself that I have a shellfish intolerance, although can't rule out pure food poisoning. i'm not sure which was worse the vomiting or the headache.
Thanks for the kind wishes. We are wondering if it was the paella or her smoked salmon and Brie starter that was the cause as we both had the paella and I’m fine, and my starter was Iberian sirloin with caramelised onions. Can’t think it was the coconut ice cream she had in the afternoon.
We have nothing like that down here on the South Coast There is the 'Hayling Bike Night' every Thursday this time of the year, but the only time I went it was just loads of tediously similar almost new bikes modified with decal kits.
Spent the last few days weeding and power washing around the place in Spain. It seems like there is an acre of tile around this place. Got contractors bidding on a bunch of work to be done. Big storm rolling thru this evening.
I found a lovely bronze coloured Slow Worm yesterday. I accidentally doused him/her (most likely a “her” but didn’t want to misgender) with a 19:1 mix of Jeyes Fluid and water when disinfecting the part of my yard where my dog pees, so I took him/her indoors for a good rinse and 24 hours monitoring. He/she was still alive and acting normally just now so they were released back into the wild.
I had one as a pet when I was about 8, but the next door neighbour's dog got hold of it and although it wasn’t injured, it died soon after, most likely due to the shock.
My friend had 2 as pets when we were kids, I had green tree frogs amongst other things that would escape the tank at night and you’d find them on the ceiling!
I have an eccentric aunt who used to buy me all sorts of exotic pets when I was a kid and although I had a praying mantis, stick insects, a salamander, hermit crabs (land and marine), God alone knows how many tropical fish, several toads and at least one newt, various injured birds that I nursed back to health (including a crow, which was extremely clever) and the aforementioned slow worm, I always wanted a tree frog, preferably a poisonous one, but alas, I was denied. I also ended up with a breeding pair of gerbils, which soon became lots of gerbils (39, in fact). They were reproducing so quickly, that enterprising little tyke that I was, I used to barter the weaned litters for other animals and food with the owner of the local pet shop. I then did the same with my rabbits and guinea pigs. The 1970s were a free for all. Can you imagine that sort of thing happening these days? A man with a clipboard and an attitude problem would be round in a flash, accusing me and my parents of animal trafficking and slapping an ASBO on us.
Yes I had the tree frogs, toads, fire bellied newts, mice, gerbils, a snake, giant locusts, giant snails, hermit crabs, a giant millipede, lizards, a scorpion, a ferret and numerous tropical fish. I still keep African cichlids now. Great times.
A scorpion? I hate you! I always wanted one of those too but never managed it. I remember reading somewhere that there was a colony of them living in a wall outside Chipping Ongar tune station and spent months unsuccessfully trying to persuade my dad to drive down from where we lived just outside Liverpool so I could collect a couple. Apparently there’s another colony on the Isle of Sheppey, so now I’m reminded, I may well take a trip over that way….
