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Category Archives: Something Completely Different…
The Dinner Party
It was around 3am on Sunday morning. The heating was on and there was an eerie silence outside; the kind of silence which is oddly quite the opposite. There was a faint hum caused by water rushing through the pipes, … Continue reading
The Life of Luxor-y
After wrestling with Dexter – raging…employee of Thrifty Car Rentals – on the cliff-edge of sanity, I managed to finalise the rental car booking for our upcoming road trip to the Western United States. The whole haunting experience had mercilessly hoovered my desire to deal … Continue reading
Remember The Alamo
There’s a well-known romanticism associated with the road trip, particularly the American one. Hollywood has a love affair with the road trip movie; Thelma & Louise, Easy Rider, Rain Man: they’re all classics, and cannot fail but give you the … Continue reading
A Cock Amongst Hens
I’m sitting fairly uncomfortably on my train away from York; having assumed Position 3A, my legs are now in such a tangle that I could probably be mistaken for a grasshopper, or any related flexible, stick-like creature. All of my … Continue reading
The Break Up
I’m on my way home, sitting on a train that’s surprisingly well-populated – the buzz from the crowds causes me to increase the volume on my iPod ever so slightly, so to give Jack Johnson the courtesy of being heard. … Continue reading
Tea With Mussolini
One of the ironic things about my experience of travelling is that the harder I seem to escape the madness of home, the more madness I find myself surrounded by, a irony that creates, ironically enough, yet another irony; I’ve … Continue reading
