Around 40 degrees, and I’m wandering around Budapest.
I was fooled into not bringing my flip-flops due to the horrid english weather the day before, but can’t bring myself yo part with £30 for another pair just for here.
I’m staying with bobby a couch surfer, cool guy, well travelled, served in the US military, and totally sound. We went for some drinks with other couch surfers, and I had his nice studio to myself.
Yesterday after the flight I was collected straight from arrivals and delivered to the dentist. Again a very nice surgery, professional, modern, clean, with nice English speaking nurses and dentist British Hungarian Medical Service.
Again with the drills and complications. My implant is very wide for the gap, so he had to do some metal working while at it, sparks flying around, and even managed to break a drill bit! I thought that while having work done, I’d have my teeth whitened a bit, while in a land of lower cost. I would never want to go through that ever again. I had to stay still for way too long. I didn’t too much enjoy the nerves and my gums dancing around under the hydrogen peroxide and ultra-violet light. But after all that, my teeth look nice, yet not scary White like American actors and such people.
They are making me a tooth now, so either Monday or Tuesday I should be whole again, I can’t wait!!!
I’m sat in hero square, a bit hungry, but it’s too hot to so anything. I guess I’ll have to move once I’ve run out of water.
Archive: July, 2009
Airborne
Thursday, July 30th, 2009I’m on a wizzair flight from Luton to Budapest. Super tired, I had to wake at half four to take a bus to the airport, which I almost missed. I find myself cutting things quite fine thes days.
Yesterday was pretty depressing.
To start off I saw the mess that was the front end of my car, after hitting the animal, destroyed bumper, broken windscreen/headlamp washer system. Great so that needs fixing as well as the exhaust and windscreen.
It was raining most of the day.
I went to the hair dresser to get a hair cut and was told by a hair dresser of thirty years to wait for somebody else to cut my hair. He couldn’t get his mind around cutting my hair in a non-classic, unconventional fashion. Well now I have shorter, more normal hair, than I can remember having. I like it.
So on the up dad alan and I went to the cinema to see Pelham 1-2-3. It was very Hollywood and predictable, and fairly entertaining, but not something that I’d usually pay to watch.
To heat up the damp day we went for an Indian, so the day was not the worst ever.
This seems to be the trend when I return to the uk, damp, dark, drab, dull. But that’s only because I just came from the beach. I still love the place, just probably couldn’t enjoy living there.
Off to the sun, dentist and fun I go.
Roadkill
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009Driving from Dover to here, dads place, I ran over something, I’m hoping a badger, rather than a dog. But still it was horrible to hit something, anything.
Well apart from that I had a nice day. Chatting French here and there. I had the best crepes I have ever had at a place called grand mere alice in st. Malo.
Then I took a leisurely drive through the country to mont saint michel. It is impressive, it is touristy, and I didn’t feel worth the parking charge.
I took a little tour of boulogne in my car, and my verdict is that it’s just as manky as Calais.
I hate the sound of my car, I need the exhaust fixed, so job 1 tomorrow is to go to the garage.
Poker n’ace
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009So I came so close to winning poker, second however is not winning. I think I needed more booze to keep it straight and level headed. Well €2 in no loss.
Yesterday I had a margerita, soo strong, only a swim in big waves to reduce it before dinner, geez looking after children is tiring. The drive back was late, long, fast, bumpy and fun.
I found a dead bat in the car. I drove 600km smoothly, found beaches, realised my phone won’t work, and spent time running around time trying to get a phone card.
I’m in a tent in st malo, beautiful, rightfully touristy town. It’s kind of like Dubrovnik in Croatia, just islands of castles. There’s even a diving board into a pool, that is hidden when the tide is up.
It’s super brittanic, I like, I’ll try and have a crepe tomorrow, I’ve never actually had one in britanny!
I saw alex earlier, recovering from the weekend. Then I spent the evening in the countriside playing poker, a nice frenchy evening, where I was branded as not English.
Maybe tomorrow I could be daring enough to dive off the high board into the pool by the sea?!?!
A la plage
Sunday, July 26th, 2009I’m on cortis plage with ian, court and alex’s family. It’s roasting in the sun, but the breeze is starting.
Oscar is convinced to body board with courtney instead of me, so I can rest a bit and desaltify me. The waves here aren’t too big, but still fun, but there’s a strong current running by here.
This is my first stop on my way back north to England, not that I’m far north from yesterday.
Yesterday after we all managed to get our hungovers arses out of the flat we left nico at work and went to the beach at vieux beacou, where craig, ninka and others from verbier are working. Unfortunately the waves were too big to learn to surf, next time I guess.
After Charlie went to work, jo, maria an I headed home for spagets and film. We saw lesbian vampire killers. I expected some atrocias American B movie. But it was an English comedy, maybe almost as good as hot fuzz!? So watch it.
Tomorrow it’s time to head up to St. Malo.
Brain pain
Saturday, July 25th, 2009I’m in hossegar, just north of biaritz, we can see biaritz and Spain from the beach.
I’m in a world of verbier guys, staying with nico and charlie, another couple of verbs are here too. I bumped into vince my head chef from winter last night. It’s so bizarre, verbier life is everywhere.
It’s so nice to be back by the sea. Yesterday nico and I were body surfing in waves up to 2m. It’s crazy floating up the on the crest, like flying, like superman.
Last night we did the verbier thing and drank loads, so feeling rough now. I still don’t enjoy the meat Market clubs. I’m awake, waiting for these other guys to wake, or at least admit that they are also awake.
Then we can go to the beach. I’ve never even touched a surf board, but joao is a surf instructor, so no time like now to try.
And here I am sleeping on a double bed sized sofa bed, the luxury!
Au sable
Friday, July 24th, 2009It’s been a nice chilled day today with ian, courtney and no kids. We dropped them off at the activity centre, went to the Market, and had some breakfast. Chinese before midday is bizarre!
We read our books, I bought two today, and now I’m Reading the snow leapard.
We went for a bike ride, I love, though after swapping with ian near the end I all but fell off, damn riding an eight year old’s bike.
So some sunbathing an a glass of red, and we cruise to Bergerac to take louise and cousin to go clubbing, well not us. We had pizza and watched ball room style dancing.
Home now, finished some red wine over discussions of English cinema et al.
It’s amazing how tiring doing nothing is.
Bon nuit.
Quickie
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009It’s Been a long time since I’ve writen anything.
Basically I saw a car crash(never drive a small car!), drove fifteen hours to verbier. Saw the tour de France, met cool people, had many hangovers, hot very drunk, met lots of rich people, had nice food and cider, spent time with nic n toto, was kept Awake by their kittens, and met an awersome girl.
So now I’m drunk in Aquitaine, at alex’s dads with ian an courtney and family, having just watched a French/Spanish film.
Life is still good.
I’m avoiding going back to England because it is raining over there.!
Thunder n lightening, very very frightening
Friday, July 17th, 2009I’m soaked through, have been for hours.
I took today to learn to change the engine oil in a car, my car. Well to start with I had to make a repairation to the exhaust, easy as pie. Just picked up. Kit from halfords and stuck it all together. Draining the oil involved a quick google to get instructions, jack the front up onto blocks, but then came trouble as the previous person to do it tightened the sump valve and oil filter too much. Well with some violence this was solved.
While martin went off to give blood, I closed up, refilled the oil, and then lost half of the new oil due to a minor mistake. So finally seal up the underside of the car, while the heavens opened, hot covered in oil, went up to the boat to find the laptop soaked, along with lots of other stuff, oh well!
So martin and I went driving around to find more oil, and Chichester is flooded, seems they can’t build roads, or even roofs!
Well I’m all ready to leave for Switzerland, actually can’t wait, with this bloody weather, even if all this lightening is awesome.
Yesterday involved specs shopping around bristol due to a two hour queue for the Bristol museum to see the bansky exhibit. No we won’t come back tomorrow an hour before the museum opens.
And for something positive, martin and I signed up for our PADI 1 course 
See ya in swissland.
Enlightening
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009Nam and I went into Glastonbury to see their shop, make juice and see more of the town. It’s hard to get anywhere fast, buMping into people all of the time.
The juice felt awesome, as did being around these powerful characters.
I chose to leave on a high, and must return to enjoy the place more.
This evening I met alive, izzi’s sister in Bristol. So we walked a lot and I saw how beautiful the city is, and the great cider. And it’s pretty posh, even the bums speak better English than many londoners.
We came back to Weston for borat and pizza.
Now I must sleep as I’m too tired to type.
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