a new thing
do i really learn a new thing everyday?
Saturday, September 04, 2004
back!
ok, i'm back and will give a week's worth of learningness in one big post!
ok, so here we go. me and kate have been in menorca for a week but i didn't tell you that on here incase you decided to rob my house. there was nothing worth stealing anyway cos i wasn't here :)
i can actually go through and do this with all the right dates etc but i can't actually be bothered so here's a quick run down of what i learnt this week:
27/08/04
in manchester aiport i started getting a migraine - what a great start to a holiday eh? so i bought some migraleve for about seven quids and learnt that there are two colours - pink and yellow (they look like sweets!). you take the pink one first and then if that doesn't clear it you take the yellow one for an extra kick. i took two pinks and a yellow and it was sorted within about 45 minutes. not that i condone drug overdoses! i also learnt on the 27th that in burger king at manchester airport it costs £2.78 for two large fries. oh, we saw steve macdonald from coranation street there too.
28/08/04
on the 28th i learnt that the four of us who were on holiday together (me, wife:kate, mate:lynn and mate:dave) were all born in the chinese year of the monkey. me and kate were born in 1980, lynn and dave in 1956. we also met wolf from gladiators (we have his photo's to prove it too!) on a very alcoholic bar crawl. he stills works out but now has short hair.
29/08/04
the 29th brought my first experience of a mediterranean thunderstorm. it rained, thundered, lightninged, hailed - the lot! thankfully it had cleared by about 9am and it was the hottest day we had.
30/08/04
'lavabos' is the spanish word for toilet. however, it may also mean 'smells of piss and sweat' as the two seemed interchangeable in ciutadella. there was no bog roll either so it could mean that too! this night in the karaoke bar i had a youngish lass come up to me and start saying 'excuse me did you...' (at which point kate, who was stood next to me, was about to attack) '...use to live on dalecroft rise?'. that was such a weird question to be asked about a thousand miles from home but as soon as she said it i knew (almost) who she was. she was sarah brown's little sister who lived five doors up from my mum's house and apparently still does. so i said to her, and this must really build up her self-esteem, 'yes, i don't remember your name but you're sarah brown's little sister aren't you?'. so that was kinda weird! andrew homer was there too, he still lives round the corner from my mums - it's weird how some people just don't seem to change or move on?
31/08/04
earlier on in the holiday we found a fantastic looking beach/cove but we had absolutely no idea how to actually get to it! today i learnt how to get to it and we had passed the entrance quite a few times already, doh! i love being english, it means we can get drunk on holiday, get burnt and pay little or no attention to anything!
01/09/04
white rabbit white rabbit white rabbit. pinch, punch, first of the month - and all the other silly rhymes you have to say for the first day of the month unless you want your legs to fall off and be eaten by a rabid badger. well, today i learnt that we were lied to by a man in a shop. we were getting a bus to cala en bosch to go on a boat trip for the day and the bloke told us we would need to change in cuitadella. however, we found out that we didn't have to change buses to get there which would make things much easier.
02/09/04
after the boat trip on the 2nd we didn't want to have to wait an hour to get a bus back to we went looking for a taxi. i learnt, however, that you can't do that in menorca. all taxi's have to be phoned in advance and you can't just pick on up off of the street like some kind of dirty whore. 'twas on this night that i learnt how strong an 'adios amigos' cocktail was from blue breeze. the answer, very. seeing as it contained about a million units of alcohol! spaniards don't do measurement - they just pour until they feel happy so you get a shot and it's the equivalent of about three... baring this in mind, the cocktail i had contained: vodka, tequila, rum, gin, amaretto, cointrea, tia maria, [something i can't read on the photo] and cranberry juice. it was very very strong, i managed about half of it and i felt rather fresh...
03/09/04
it is a bad idea to go swimming when you still have your wallet in your pocket full of money, credit cards etc etc... this was the day we came back and the day i learnt i had a bit of a dodgy stomach. i'll not go into details but my arse is sore and i was up through most of the night throwing up...
04/09/04
now onto today. today i learnt that i had over 200 emails while i was away, and of those 118 were spam that got caught in the junk mail filter of mozilla thunderbird, about 10 were spam that slipped though the junk mail filter and the rest were mostly junk, but junk that i subscribe to. i still haven't checked them yet.
so there, that's it for now - even in other countries the phrase 'you learn a new thing everyday' holds true!
see ya in the pub!
MaFt
ok, so here we go. me and kate have been in menorca for a week but i didn't tell you that on here incase you decided to rob my house. there was nothing worth stealing anyway cos i wasn't here :)
i can actually go through and do this with all the right dates etc but i can't actually be bothered so here's a quick run down of what i learnt this week:
27/08/04
in manchester aiport i started getting a migraine - what a great start to a holiday eh? so i bought some migraleve for about seven quids and learnt that there are two colours - pink and yellow (they look like sweets!). you take the pink one first and then if that doesn't clear it you take the yellow one for an extra kick. i took two pinks and a yellow and it was sorted within about 45 minutes. not that i condone drug overdoses! i also learnt on the 27th that in burger king at manchester airport it costs £2.78 for two large fries. oh, we saw steve macdonald from coranation street there too.
28/08/04
on the 28th i learnt that the four of us who were on holiday together (me, wife:kate, mate:lynn and mate:dave) were all born in the chinese year of the monkey. me and kate were born in 1980, lynn and dave in 1956. we also met wolf from gladiators (we have his photo's to prove it too!) on a very alcoholic bar crawl. he stills works out but now has short hair.
29/08/04
the 29th brought my first experience of a mediterranean thunderstorm. it rained, thundered, lightninged, hailed - the lot! thankfully it had cleared by about 9am and it was the hottest day we had.
30/08/04
'lavabos' is the spanish word for toilet. however, it may also mean 'smells of piss and sweat' as the two seemed interchangeable in ciutadella. there was no bog roll either so it could mean that too! this night in the karaoke bar i had a youngish lass come up to me and start saying 'excuse me did you...' (at which point kate, who was stood next to me, was about to attack) '...use to live on dalecroft rise?'. that was such a weird question to be asked about a thousand miles from home but as soon as she said it i knew (almost) who she was. she was sarah brown's little sister who lived five doors up from my mum's house and apparently still does. so i said to her, and this must really build up her self-esteem, 'yes, i don't remember your name but you're sarah brown's little sister aren't you?'. so that was kinda weird! andrew homer was there too, he still lives round the corner from my mums - it's weird how some people just don't seem to change or move on?
31/08/04
earlier on in the holiday we found a fantastic looking beach/cove but we had absolutely no idea how to actually get to it! today i learnt how to get to it and we had passed the entrance quite a few times already, doh! i love being english, it means we can get drunk on holiday, get burnt and pay little or no attention to anything!
01/09/04
white rabbit white rabbit white rabbit. pinch, punch, first of the month - and all the other silly rhymes you have to say for the first day of the month unless you want your legs to fall off and be eaten by a rabid badger. well, today i learnt that we were lied to by a man in a shop. we were getting a bus to cala en bosch to go on a boat trip for the day and the bloke told us we would need to change in cuitadella. however, we found out that we didn't have to change buses to get there which would make things much easier.
02/09/04
after the boat trip on the 2nd we didn't want to have to wait an hour to get a bus back to we went looking for a taxi. i learnt, however, that you can't do that in menorca. all taxi's have to be phoned in advance and you can't just pick on up off of the street like some kind of dirty whore. 'twas on this night that i learnt how strong an 'adios amigos' cocktail was from blue breeze. the answer, very. seeing as it contained about a million units of alcohol! spaniards don't do measurement - they just pour until they feel happy so you get a shot and it's the equivalent of about three... baring this in mind, the cocktail i had contained: vodka, tequila, rum, gin, amaretto, cointrea, tia maria, [something i can't read on the photo] and cranberry juice. it was very very strong, i managed about half of it and i felt rather fresh...
03/09/04
it is a bad idea to go swimming when you still have your wallet in your pocket full of money, credit cards etc etc... this was the day we came back and the day i learnt i had a bit of a dodgy stomach. i'll not go into details but my arse is sore and i was up through most of the night throwing up...
04/09/04
now onto today. today i learnt that i had over 200 emails while i was away, and of those 118 were spam that got caught in the junk mail filter of mozilla thunderbird, about 10 were spam that slipped though the junk mail filter and the rest were mostly junk, but junk that i subscribe to. i still haven't checked them yet.
so there, that's it for now - even in other countries the phrase 'you learn a new thing everyday' holds true!
see ya in the pub!
MaFt
