Monday, June 06, 2005
it begins in Africa
Welcome to Africa. Yup, arrived safe and sound.
In this age of integrated transport, it somehow conspired to take us 43 hours to get from Gravenhurst, Canada to Lilongwe, Malawi. At least this gave us the chance to spend 6 hours with the rest of the Wylie clan at Heathrow Airport. Anyone planning to spend all day hanging out at Terminal 3 of Heathrow should think again. Proving to be easily the worst of the 30 odd airports we've been to in the last year, it also provided a contender for worst meal of the entire trip. Nearly surpassing the breakfast of hot dogs and rice at Hotel Tramp in Moscow, the Food Village managed to serve up a pizza truly staggering in its awfulness. Still, we weren't paying so can't moan that much..
Back in Canada we'd become keen to this game - Sudoku. Apparently, at least according to the Toronto Star, it's the new craze sweeping the UK. Proving that we all have a bit of trainspotter in us, I admit to enjoying solving the said puzzles. So much so that if you now try and read any of the complimentary UK newspapers in the KLM transit lounge in Nairobi airport, then you'll find some idiot has torn out all the puzzles. To make matters worse, we even copy the grid onto a separate sheet of paper so Courtney can do them as well...
Anyway, we made it to Malawi. Hired a car and about to disappear to gods knows where for a week. The people are indeed 'amazing' and we've even bought 2 reggae tapes for the journey...
In this age of integrated transport, it somehow conspired to take us 43 hours to get from Gravenhurst, Canada to Lilongwe, Malawi. At least this gave us the chance to spend 6 hours with the rest of the Wylie clan at Heathrow Airport. Anyone planning to spend all day hanging out at Terminal 3 of Heathrow should think again. Proving to be easily the worst of the 30 odd airports we've been to in the last year, it also provided a contender for worst meal of the entire trip. Nearly surpassing the breakfast of hot dogs and rice at Hotel Tramp in Moscow, the Food Village managed to serve up a pizza truly staggering in its awfulness. Still, we weren't paying so can't moan that much..
Back in Canada we'd become keen to this game - Sudoku. Apparently, at least according to the Toronto Star, it's the new craze sweeping the UK. Proving that we all have a bit of trainspotter in us, I admit to enjoying solving the said puzzles. So much so that if you now try and read any of the complimentary UK newspapers in the KLM transit lounge in Nairobi airport, then you'll find some idiot has torn out all the puzzles. To make matters worse, we even copy the grid onto a separate sheet of paper so Courtney can do them as well...
Anyway, we made it to Malawi. Hired a car and about to disappear to gods knows where for a week. The people are indeed 'amazing' and we've even bought 2 reggae tapes for the journey...
// posted by courtney and pete @ 11:29 
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And if he gets bored of pylon, just ask him to list his ATC Top 40.
PS - Matt - please can you let us have your striker
PS - Matt - please can you let us have your striker
As all those who have lived with LOTD will testify, there are a few rules by which he lives his life:
1) Always do the washing up
2) Never eat any of your meals with a small side salad - this really winds him up
3) Always remind him to pick up his shoes when he leaves foreign hotels
4) don't have the heating on in your room unless it is sub-zero temperatures
5) and if you are going to be his landlord, don't charge him peppercorn rent, he'll be earning a fortune within minutes of arriving back, and will then get himself sacked within weeks with yet another huge payoff...
and finally - Sod U Ko? I am very disappointed...
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1) Always do the washing up
2) Never eat any of your meals with a small side salad - this really winds him up
3) Always remind him to pick up his shoes when he leaves foreign hotels
4) don't have the heating on in your room unless it is sub-zero temperatures
5) and if you are going to be his landlord, don't charge him peppercorn rent, he'll be earning a fortune within minutes of arriving back, and will then get himself sacked within weeks with yet another huge payoff...
and finally - Sod U Ko? I am very disappointed...
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