We've come to a restaurant in the Highlands and there are two people from Hartlepool serving us. I often say that there are more monkey hangers outside the town than in it.

Walked into a cheapo store, the sort that sells pegs, shopping trolleys, Chinese plastic tat, batteries and incense sticks. Blaring out behind the counter was a bootleg recording of 2112. 

Some decent weather for a change.

Gin n tonics going down nicely in boiling hot Majorca.. great to be back👍

I'm back in England! And having a beer in the Land of my Fathers, County Durham.

Technically today (as I start to type this), but the very short story from late last night:

arrived in Perissa, Satorini pretty late last night, very hungry indeed;

all but one establishment seemed open;

we asked if they could fix us up a quick snack and they said they could throw together a feta cheese salad with dips and pitta bread - fine;

then my little 'un and I started conversing with our fantastically friendly server in Greek - this seemed to change the game somewhat, and in the end we were served the salads, plus a 12" pizza and a lovely warm pot of moussaka.  And ice cream for dessert, which was on the house.

This is why I keep coming back to this country.

A coastal walk from Beer to Branscombe and back, along the Jurassic coast. Including a quick sea swim.

The wonders of a good VPN - I can enjoy my usual weekend sports betting flutters and watch a live stream of Halifax Town's game this afternoon (at 5pm...) using perfectly legitimate websites. 

A load of clothes taken to the charity shop.  Quite cathartic, albeit I do find it hard to part with stuff that has no faults.

Just returned from a trip down to Southsea with the in-laws.
It was primarily to take my eight-eight year old father-in-law around the D-day museum. A wonderful exhibition of every element of that huge undertaking on our behalf. What an educational and humbling experience.
Whilst we were both visiting the museum, Clare and her mum enjoyed a long walk along the seafront in the bracing sea air, watching the Hovercraft and ferries to and from the Isle Of Wight.
We all enjoyed a (late) fish and chip lunch at the Deep Blue restaurant on the pier. Home by 6:30pm, helped by the light traffic. A great day out

Quote from: captainkurtz on August 12, 2023, 05:07:27 PMA load of clothes taken to the charity shop.  Quite cathartic, albeit I do find it hard to part with stuff that has no faults.

Just done similar myself,had a clear out(always think I should eBay stuff and get some cash back), but giving it to a charity shop is so much easier and more worthwhile.

Woke up at about 0700 and kept drifting in and out of sleep .. was 1000 before I realised it. Still felt tired. I wanted to get up by 0830 or so.

People watching.  ... some people are odd🙄

Quote from: Slim on August 13, 2023, 10:39:07 AMWoke up at about 0700 and kept drifting in and out of sleep .. was 1000 before I realised it. Still felt tired. I wanted to get up by 0830 or so.

I meant to post this in the "grumpy" thread but actually we had un-forecast heavy rain at about 1100. I would have gone out on a bike if I'd got up early, and got caught in it. So this turned out quite nicely and I posted it in the right place after all.

Usually try and and avoid hotel entertainment like the plague.. but arrived back a bit earlier than usual to some bloke on a guitar playing lead to some backing tracks.. have to say he cranked out some decent stuff like ...
Dire Straits Brothers in Arms
Floyd ABintWall pts 2&3
Prince Purple Rain
Clapton Cocaine
Santana Black Magic Woman

Spoilt it all when he started Eagles Hotel California can't stand that song so we left..