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I came here with my friends Sara & Casey. Most of my travel is cathartic and done solo so travelling with friends was actually a rare treat for me. We had a h*lluva time getting to the main attraction in Granada – the huge Moorish complex know as La Alhambra. We kept going in the [...] Invariably wherever I go, one of my evaulations is whether I feel I could live there, if only for a year or tow or more. So far in Europe, only Malta would be a ‘one year’ decision. Amsterdam, Roma – no. But I feel at ease in southern España. Like much of trible’ yet cosmopolitan [...] When I was a freshman in high school, I played the part of Mr Dussel in a stage production of The Diary of Anne Frank. That’s pronounced Anna Frahnk. I’m sure most people know her story. It was an emotionally charged play, to say the least. Amsterdam is home to the house where Anne Frank, [...] I just spent some time walking around Amsterdam during the day. Given my disinclination to living in a hazy state – my mind’s naturally foggy anyway – it was a particularly lucid affair. The weather’s been great today. I didn’t need a coat. Canals, canals, canals. The city’s built on canals which gives it a [...] Greetings from Amsterdam. I got in last night around midnight, checked into my hostel and promptly went out to survey the city at night. red lights, bright city – a crazy spectacle really. <knock, knock> “Come talk to me, darling!” “mmm, no.” I think it’s a brave attempt on the part of the Dutch government [...] Among desi’s who don’t live in the motherland, there is sometimes a sort of pre-emptive hate-hate dynamic between strangers of the different sexes. The reason for this subterfuge is simple – we don’t trust each other not to be ethnocentric. Often, one sex will think the other is only interested because they’re both brown. There [...] Women tend to put aside their platonic male friends quite easily, I think. We’re easily dispensed with, you see – a shoulder to cry on, a sympathetic ear to agree that “all men are evil *ssholes” in bad times. But then the next boy comes along, who will cause you to claim that “my [new] [...] Life does not cease to be mundane when you live in a fab place any more than it ceases to be fabulous when you live in a mundane place. My friends back home expect, not without justification, that I should be living the fantastic lifestyle in London and I can’t say that I disagree with [...] One of the more interesting aspects of some of the clubs I’ve frequented in London is the part of the night when the DJ does shoutouts to different nations – “Jamaica, make some noise!!” The Caribbean nations – Trinidad & Tobago, Granada, Jamaica, Guyana – always show up loud. But the loudest shouts usually [...] “I think it’s safe to say that these people came here today to watch a game of FOOTBALL!! FOOTBALL!!!” The immortal words of John Madden as a cartoon character on The Family Guy. Brian & I went a Superbowl Party hosted by the NFL at the Battersea Evolution in south London. The game started at [...] |
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