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the sun is out and ryanair have a sale on. what are your holiday plans this summer?
me:
no plans cuz i am broke, but i'd like see some of europe:
budapest. and not just to get my teeth done. mittel euro culture, pretty architecture, cheap booze, majik gypsies, american students to play the russian debutante's handbook-esque trickeries on. what more could you want? my flatmate lily just got back from there and says it is the new vienna. i haven't been to vienna, but it looked great in before sunrise so budapest must be the best!
finland. forests and moomin world and lakes full of suicided teens.
iceland. liver failure in reykjavík, moody primordial landscape, mystical fairy nymph creatures / bjork, drunk nordic chicks that maybe just maybe will find me thrillingly exotic, damon albairn bastardchildren, marauding vikings, um i don't what else they have there but i bet it's all good, yeah iceland is teh cool.
Rome, supposed to be great, I love italian food and I love holidays where you can combine warm weather with seeing interesting things, maybe this summer..
Barcelona I love Spain, absolutely love it, and Barcelona is one of the places I haven't been to yet, a combination of great food, beaches and things to see, what more could I want.
I also wouldn't mind seeing more of Germany, got a taster of it when I went to the Oktoberfest last year and really liked it, fascinating place and friendly people. Probably not this summer though what with the small matter of the World Cup taking place there..
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detroit its more of a homage to electronica (ha ha see what i did there). i know its shitty, i know that nobody really gets what's being done by the musicians there, but i would like to be the geek of all geeks and go and see how/where/why/what. plus its the home of the mc5.
the bronx this where i'd join all the other white dudes being stared at as we took photos of everything.
barcelona
plus its got sonar right?
but in all probability i'm probably going to be working through the summer and hoping to get from the UK to live in toronto.
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Moscow - Childhood dream, full of the Russian Mafia now, I bet it's a shithole and I'd get mugged. I'd have rather seen Red Square before they put a McDonalds on it.
The Ardennes - Next week, house hunting. I'll let you know what it's like.
Vegas - Just to see it, play a table, sing a Tiny Christie song and leave without cumming in Elizabeth Shue's hair.
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Barcalona's fantastic, and Rome is my European "other" city.
In about five weeks I'm off to Bulgaria with my best mate for a long weekend, and then the week after that it's off to LA to get married - so, unless we can fit in a honeymoon in June, to Italy, then that'll be the end of the summer holidays for me.
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In May, I'm heading to the Lake District for some kind of hiking holiday, apparently.
Then, in June, I'm going Spain for a culture-free loaf-around a luxury villa, holiday at the exact same place we went last year. It's stuck up in the mountains in the middle of nowhere (Alheurin el Grande) and the plan is usually to stock up on booze and drink relentlessly for the duration of the holiday without making any effort to appreciate the locale in any way whatsoever.
I'm off there in 6 weeks for 4 nights with some good friends - its an annual thing to pull some names and numbers out of a hat which has bloomed from an afternoon in the pub for a chance to explore some of Europe's beautiful places - last year was Copenhagen, this time its the crossroads of the Baltics with this little gem of a place.
Late July/Early August - South of France
Can't be more specific than that, apart from the place we are going is somewhere near the French Foreign Legions HQ - a friend of mine has a castle down there and we are going down for his 50th Birthday for a few days. Jerry Dammers and Patrick Kluivert are supposed to be going along as well so a bit of hob-nobbing will add to a lovely weekend.
Stockholm
A beautiful city, and its looking likely more and more that I may be going to work there for a bit, which will be nice.
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I'm going to France to admire some carp in a bit. Carp as big as your arm. I'm not actually all that keen on carp, but I imagine a carp as big as your arm might be quite an impressive sight.
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I'm taking a week off in June to watch the group games of the World Cup, but can't really take too much holiday until my OU course ends in Oct. Will take two weeks off in November - still tempted by Canada and Russia. Might have an odd long weekend city break somewhere- maybe Barcelona or somewhere Scandinavian.
I want to see more UK stuff too- like the Sutton Hoo burial site, the racing museum at Newmarket and Whitby (Dracula, abbeys and jet).
Lacking in motivation and need something to look forward to- weekends are presently drear voids punctuating drear workdays.
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I went, and it was 'good'. Lots of snow. I was there in February. Fuck, I'm trying to think what I did there now. Went to the ballet - that was well worth doing. Looked round countless palaces and went to a jazz club, which was OK; not as good as the ballet. I reckon something like that would appeal. I don't know how much airtime they give the native composers over there, but I did enjoy seeing Tchaikovsky in context, as it were. It might be interesting to go and see a performance of some other Russian heavy hitters like Stravinsky and Shostakovich, and sit there imagining what it might have been like as a Russian to hear them for the first time as Russia found that its long silent cultural voice was actually the most powerful in the world.
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Why not sleep in a tree in Cornwall for £125 quid a night.
I've just done a lengthy shit - time and dimensions! - and the only thing to hand to read was a You Simply Must Do This This Summer, Oh You Must Must Must supplement from the weekend Guardian.
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I prob won't have the money to do a proper summer holiday, but may treat myself to a paddling pool and deck chair for some days off in the garden.
Howevs, I have got roped in to going on some hippy spinster singing 'workshop' holiday, where we all stay in gites on one big site, and do communal cooking. The organiser has sent highly detailed 'briefings' on exactly what to bring, like salt, pepper, oil, etc, and keeps bellowing 'JUST SHARE AND BE NICE AND EVERYONE WILL HAVE A GOOD TIME'. I'm not looking forward to it. And it's on Saturday. For a week.
To add to the teeth-grinding factor, of the 33 people going 13 have 'dietary requirements', so there'll be a fair few fussy mung-bean eating vegans with 'gluten intolerance' (for which read 'I get fat after eating three pizzas) to enjoy.
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I wonder how many starving Africans the TMO collective has killed so far as a result of unnecessary jetsetting and cheapo ryanair flights. I reckon Vogon and Thorn have slain a few families between them. Vikram's massacred an entire village. I, on the other hand, have only killed a couple of babies. So there.
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not sure if i will book tickets actually. don't have a proper job now, but should do by then. what if i can't go on hols on whatever dates i book? bleurgh. also: what monbiot sed. lol. like i care!
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The ballet sounds like an excellent idea, Thorn. Shostakovich sounds good too - he provided the rousing score for Eisenstein's October, which I watched last week to get me in the mood. I also watched Battleship Potemkin which had great visuals but the score was so cheesy I turned it way down and played Jedi Mind Tricks's deathless Violent By Design which meshed surprisingly well with the action.
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quote:Originally posted by vikram: thanks steve, that was really helpful.
yeah, okay. Other things. The place is kind of run down, it's bastard hot, everybody drinks mint tea, it's bursting with westerners seeking out either an authentic ethnic experience or hash, the food is awful, everything is broken, and they like their king.
eta: and olives are abundant.
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i will as usual be spending my usual fortnight hey- nonny- no- ing with all the beardy weirdos at kentwell. here is the front door of my house at kentwell:
in addition to laughing in the face of modern hygiene consensus by eating stews made from livestock which has been hanging from a doorjamb for upwards of 12 hours, i will also no doubt be visiting my new favourite place in the world and possible future hometown, weston - super- mare. here is a nice picture of weston pier, where i am going to one day be the driver of the train that goes up and down the pier transporting fat children and old women wearing acrylic legwarmers to hide their gout bandages. currently the position of train driver is held by a middle- class gap year kid, whose mien of intellectual overqualification combined with puppyish eagerness to please i am sure i can replicate.
also, my mate's boyfriend might be getting a job in new york, so i might go and visit them, if i ever get my money back off Those Cunting Fucks In The Tax Office.
One of my favourite towns in Mitteldeutschland, with a UNESCO-protected centre. The first king of the Saxons, Heinrich I, is buried here - apparently a more contemporary Heinrich also liked to visit.
Dresden
I have visited Dresden about half a dozen times, and each and every time something new has been renovated or rebuilt. Oh, and the town of Pirna is just down the road, and well worth a visit.
Wernigerode
One of the few towns in the region that I haven't visited yet, but have heard a lot of. So this summer sounds like the right time to make a first visit...
Leipzig
On 21st June we will be in Leipzig, mixing it with a bunch of Iranians and Angolans...
Le Touquet Paris Plage
We have access to a summer flat here, so I'd bargain on at least half a dozen trips across La Manche. Loads of restaurants to choose from, the beach is five minutes' walk away, and the town of Etaples with its equally good array of fine seafood restaurants is just down the road, as are a number of museums to keep any WW2 geek happy...
Pretoria
I hope to be back in Pretoria at the end of the summer (early spring out there) when the Jacarandas are in bloom and the city is shrouded in a purple cape. Jo'burg is just down the road, but the only reason I'd ever go there is when something is going on at Ellis Park or the Wanderers. I might however take a drive into the interior and see how Eugene and pals are doing in Ventersdorp, lol...
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