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[Fab Foodie]

It is raining in Amsterdam! I don't care!

Neither do I, am en-route to Egypt :-/

 

[classic33]

Noted....

(Folks, I may be in deep doo-doo at this point)

:-)

Neither do I, am en-route to Egypt :-/

Very deep!!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I feel that...

The old(er) people on The Island are intolerant and needlessly aggressive.
The young(er) people on the Island are over-confident and lack self-awareness.

 

[TVC]

I feel that...

The old(er) people on The Island are intolerant and needlessly aggressive.
The young(er) people on the Island are over-confident and lack self-awareness.

Same everywhere isn't it.

Talking of islands, I want to go to Fogo Island.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Alexandria airport is a complete clusterfark.
Part 1
You need to buy s visa, but you'r not told until you've qued for immigrarion. You then go to buy your visa but they dont take credit cards. Cash only. They tell you to get cash from the cash machine which is past customs, so a security guard has to squeeze you through the assorted chaos to one of 4 cash machines landside, neither if which will give you cash. So you go back to passport control and explain your dilemma. He then writes a note in your passport and tells you to buy one at the bank before leaving. I get my bag and a quick check reveals I have a few Euros. So back up through security, explain to passport guy, go to Visa office where for 25 Euros I obtain a visa. Back to passport guy to stick it over the note he wrote and out of the airport.
Part 2.
You look for the Radisdon Blu guy that is there to collect you.
Nobody in the building.
You go outside qnd there are 3 empty lanes if road end no cars and a load of people behind a barrier apparently waiting. I go over, look around, fend off the local taxi guys, but see no sign. So I cross back to the terminal for safety to call the hotel. I cant get back into the building unless I go through security, so stop alone on the pavement to call the hotel. But the number on their confirmation doesn't work. I manage to get the site in the internet and guess what....no function.
I try a few times to raise my colleague who I eventually wake to contact the hotel. While he dies this I spy a guy back over the road with a sign, finally I have found him. Of course he saw me iver the toads but apparently was not allowed to cross.
Part3
Now in a minibus being bounced to death on the fine roads. In the van arr a couple probably pissed off because tgey have been waiting over an hour since landing to go to the hotel.
It's now 0140 hrs wnd still in the wagon. I have a meeting at a factory at 10am.
It's the glamour you know....

 

[slowmotion]

Cheer up Fabbers.
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]View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq7DGvfnr3U[/media]

 

[Fab Foodie]

Cheer up Fabbers.
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]View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq7DGvfnr3U[/media]

Marvelous!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Alexandria airport is a complete clusterfark.
Part 1
You need to buy s visa, but you'r not told until you've qued for immigrarion. You then go to buy your visa but they dont take credit cards. Cash only. They tell you to get cash from the cash machine which is past customs, so a security guard has to squeeze you through the assorted chaos to one of 4 cash machines landside, neither if which will give you cash. So you go back to passport control and explain your dilemma. He then writes a note in your passport and tells you to buy one at the bank before leaving. I get my bag and a quick check reveals I have a few Euros. So back up through security, explain to passport guy, go to Visa office where for 25 Euros I obtain a visa. Back to passport guy to stick it over the note he wrote and out of the airport.
Part 2.
You look for the Radisdon Blu guy that is there to collect you.
Nobody in the building.
You go outside qnd there are 3 empty lanes if road end no cars and a load of people behind a barrier apparently waiting. I go over, look around, fend off the local taxi guys, but see no sign. So I cross back to the terminal for safety to call the hotel. I cant get back into the building unless I go through security, so stop alone on the pavement to call the hotel. But the number on their confirmation doesn't work. I manage to get the site in the internet and guess what....no function.
I try a few times to raise my colleague who I eventually wake to contact the hotel. While he dies this I spy a guy back over the road with a sign, finally I have found him. Of course he saw me iver the toads but apparently was not allowed to cross.
Part3
Now in a minibus being bounced to death on the fine roads. In the van arr a couple probably pissed off because tgey have been waiting over an hour since landing to go to the hotel.
It's now 0140 hrs wnd still in the wagon. I have a meeting at a factory at 10am.
It's the glamour you know....

As the French, a people rarely lost for words, would say: ''oufti!!''

 

[TVC]

Alexandria airport is a complete clusterfark.
Part 1
You need to buy s visa, but you'r not told until you've qued for immigrarion. You then go to buy your visa but they dont take credit cards. Cash only. They tell you to get cash from the cash machine which is past customs, so a security guard has to squeeze you through the assorted chaos to one of 4 cash machines landside, neither if which will give you cash. So you go back to passport control and explain your dilemma. He then writes a note in your passport and tells you to buy one at the bank before leaving. I get my bag and a quick check reveals I have a few Euros. So back up through security, explain to passport guy, go to Visa office where for 25 Euros I obtain a visa. Back to passport guy to stick it over the note he wrote and out of the airport.
Part 2.
You look for the Radisdon Blu guy that is there to collect you.
Nobody in the building.
You go outside qnd there are 3 empty lanes if road end no cars and a load of people behind a barrier apparently waiting. I go over, look around, fend off the local taxi guys, but see no sign. So I cross back to the terminal for safety to call the hotel. I cant get back into the building unless I go through security, so stop alone on the pavement to call the hotel. But the number on their confirmation doesn't work. I manage to get the site in the internet and guess what....no function.
I try a few times to raise my colleague who I eventually wake to contact the hotel. While he dies this I spy a guy back over the road with a sign, finally I have found him. Of course he saw me iver the toads but apparently was not allowed to cross.
Part3
Now in a minibus being bounced to death on the fine roads. In the van arr a couple probably pissed off because tgey have been waiting over an hour since landing to go to the hotel.
It's now 0140 hrs wnd still in the wagon. I have a meeting at a factory at 10am.
It's the glamour you know....

Think of it as preparation for the travails and frustrations of owning a caravan.

 

[Salty seadog]

TimmyTheCat is a Red Burmese from a long line of bred Burmese. He's as daft a brush as timid as mouse and very cuddly. He's my mate.


We've just been to the cinema to see The Founder. It was advertised as showing in English but it was in German, so we left and got a refund.

You went to the cinema with TimmyTheCat...? Sounds like more than a mate...........then again....

 

[Salty seadog]

What about perfume? Or chocolates? Milka Chocolate is lovely.

Oh they've got that all right.

Toblerone, Bensons and Bells have kept the travel retail market going for years, just those three items alone could keep it afloat, munch, smokes an' booze.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Ice cold in Alex...

 

[Hill Wimp]

I have that sunshine and blue skies too,just not the temperature.

 

[Illaveago]

View attachment 349292 Ice cold in Alex...

South Wales looks nice today. Where's the Severn Bridge?

 

[Illaveago]

Morning, it is bright and sunny here.

Have sock manufacturers invented a new dye that changes as soon as they are washed? I have just been searching and found loads of non pairs. I would have had a better chance of finding a Higs Bosun, as a matter of fact I did find a couple of them lurking in the bottom of the laundry basket. I don't know what they were doing there, they were probably just as confused as I was.