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I Googled my own brain and top free-association hits are for: plague smuggling crime front nationale ratissages north african immigrants clinging to chunks of polystyrene drugs football stadium plague drugs
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there's a thriving hiphop scene in the Marsilles banlieu. I've got a couple of compilation albums of stuff from the scene there, and it's good. Menacing and tight.
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On a slightly related note, myself and the missus are going to Cape Town for a couple of weeks next week and the only things we have planned are drinking wine, abseiling off table mountain and attending a friend's wedding. But that won't fill up two weeks. Any other suggestions?
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Keef, get yourself down to Camps Bay for all the pretty young things tanning at the beach. Buy a couple of over-priced drinks and relax. Or get a bit pissed and fuck about on a jet ski. Then if you're up for it, you could hit a couple of clubs in the evening.
Marseille sounds a bit shit, doesn't it? I had to share a room with a guy from Marseille once. I hated him. He went a bit mad eventually and attacked me.
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My husband seems to think it would be nice to have a week on a narrow boat. On a canal. Somewhere in England.
I think he is a mental. Could anyone who might have been on a narrowboat on a canal somewhere in England for a week tell me whether it is 1)tremendous fun 2) boring as all shit with some hard work actually involved and terminally claustrophobic?
Guess which one I am leaning towards at the moment.
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quote:Originally posted by Keef: On a slightly related note, myself and the missus are going to Cape Town for a couple of weeks next week and the only things we have planned are drinking wine, abseiling off table mountain and attending a friend's wedding. But that won't fill up two weeks. Any other suggestions?
Go cage-diving with great white sharks. You don't have to be a qualified diver, so there's no excuse for not experiencing these beauties face-to-face. I'm going later this year. All the details are contained in the link.
quote:Originally posted by Louche: My husband seems to think it would be nice to have a week on a narrow boat. On a canal. Somewhere in England.
I think he is a mental. Could anyone who might have been on a narrowboat on a canal somewhere in England for a week tell me whether it is 1)tremendous fun 2) boring as all shit with some hard work actually involved and terminally claustrophobic?
Don't drink and drive a canal boat or you might end up wedging it across the width of the canal as it narrows near the entrance to a lock. I've seen it happen and it doesn't half piss off the local canal residents. One perturbed boat owner tossed his windlass to the ground, such was his anger.
quote:Originally posted by Zygote: All the details are contained in the link.
Christ, they need a better writer for their website.
quote: We gently lower the cages into the water whilst you quickly don your wetsuits. Now we slowly lower you into the cage. The moment of truth arrived. As you face this graceful, awesome creature you enter a new dimension of solitude and for that moment in time all pre-conceived ideas of what is and what was disappear as you come face to face with one million years in the making......
Hello? Co-ordination of tenses? Plus, earlier on why are words like 'suddenly' in quotes? And what's all this guff about a new dimension of solitude and all pre-conceived ideas of what 'is' and what 'was' disappearing? That sounds a bit... alarming in the context. If someone was lowering me in a cage, into the water with a Great White, I'd want them to be a bit more... professional.
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This fun loving gent is playing an ancient Newburian game which involves navigating the Kennet and Avon canal from Kintbury to Woolhampton whilst facing backwards. It's my town's equivalent of The Knowledge.
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quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Don't drink and drive a canal boat or you might end up wedging it across the width of the canal as it narrows near the entrance to a lock. I've seen it happen and it doesn't half piss off the local canal residents. One perturbed boat owner tossed his windlass to the ground, such was his anger.
I don't know what a windlass is. I really don't think I'm cut out for this canal boating lark. And my husband would totally crash after deciding to navigate locks after seven pints of Tetley or something. I just can't make myself see that anything involving canals and me in the context of 'having a holiday' would work.
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