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Meetings and Eurostars
After a while waiting for some sign that my fellow travelers had already begun their own journey’s I decide to attempt to contact them myself. No response from any number stored in my emergency phone and I started to panic again. I tried to be more useful and fill my time by picking up the train tickets, which turned out not to be possible without Jay’s bank card. While doing this i realised that our train was delayed and all of a sudden I was in Manchester again waiting but going nowhere. Just then as I sat down cold, grey and dejected James rung. We were to meet outside WHSmiths. I walked, again, the entire length of the station to find him. He was 100 metres behind where I started. His mum was really nice and she took she took some great hyped up ‘lets go!’ type action snaps. Around 5 minutes later Jay rang. He had arrived back from his aborted first attempt out and was now outside WHSmiths. Sarah was next after meeting and saying some final goodbyes to her mum and our holiday could begin properly. Jay handed out some presents for me from Katie and Doug, Alex and Kavita. They were amazing – I only opened them later but I was so blown away by the gifts that I just had to mention it.
We checked into the Eurostar lounge where the temperature was through the roof. I suggested we relax having just made it through passport control and dropped our bags when the call was made to proceed to the platform. The queue which I thought gave us twenty minutes wasn’t for our train and when we realised we had to scoop our bags up and burst past ticket check. At first we ran as little joke, we couldn’t miss the first train! When we realised we were heading in the wrong direction down the platform the joke stopped being funny and we sprinted to our coach and jumped on board. For some reason we had been bumped up to first class, our fellow travelers didn’t seem to happy with it as we puffed and panted and pushed our massive bags into our seats. The hostess on board wasn’t best pleased either. Still, the service was worth all the downward looks. Free champagne, free wine and beer, free food and over sized chairs. A great way to begin our trip.
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I laughed harder than I had in a long time
Last night was spent in the company of almost all of my Mums side of our family. We were in Liverpool to see a Christmas comedy spectacular at the Unity theater. After a nice meal with my Mum, Dad and Nan we took up our seats alongside my uncle in the venue and awaited the main event. Out strutted the golden tuxedo-ed host for the evening; my mothers youngest brother Tez. The next two hours is a blur of hilarious, manic, madcap character comedy. I hadn’t seen my uncle for a long time and won’t again for a while but I can’t think of a better memory to be stamped on my brain as I wave goodbye to the family. Thanks Tez.
It’s against my very strict personal policy to link to publicising pages and reviews within my blog but with a bit of luck the man himself will leave a nice comment below along with directions to areas of the web where you could investigate his hilarity further, and at your own valition.
This next bit is especially for the sneaker freeks and one in particular – Jeremy Shortball. Check out these Bad Mothers!
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- limited edition
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- hightop stompers
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They are Adidas Originals Americana Lux high Lone Wolf limited edition animal pack: black. Please note the faux wolfs mane collar , the super soft suede detailing betwixt the brands traditional three stripes and on top of the toe. Also the reinforced nosing piece highlighs these beauties robust nature. For me though the best feature is the the howling wolf stamped onto the outside heel of both feet. All in all a stylish and understated shoe with lavish detailing.
That’s the spiel and as you can tell I really, really love them already. So much so that I almost don’t want to take them out of the box. I have to though. I bought them specifically to wear around Eastern Europe and other cold and snow prone areas of the world in early 2009. They are big and hard and also good looking that’s why they stood out. I’m going to leave size 11 footprints all over Russia so I figure they may as well look good. And in these: Easy.
