Travel plans
Aug. 11th, 2011 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
motetusHooray, wife and I have finally booked our holiday this year - a week split between Budapest and Vienna, leaving next week. Not my favourite time of year to travel but we didn't have much choice, having discovered that once you are financially stable and can afford to travel without having to stay in the dirtiest dodgiest backpacker hostels you can find, you just can't get the time off work. Anyone who knows of things to do in either of those places, please advise me for I have no clue. I just picked Budapest after googling Hungarian food and getting peckish.
But yes, holiday! I AM GOING TO GO HAVE FUN AND NOT THINK ABOUT HOW SHITTY MY MASTERS IS TURNING OUT.
However, I need to rewatch this to calm myself down after the horror of all the extra charges Jet2 springs on you. £33 for one item of checked baggage and then another £30 to check it in! EACH WAY. Thieving fucktards, you're not getting that from me. I will only take carry-on and will wash my knickers in my hotel sink just to spite you.
And, and, and, the weekend after we get back from that I am going down to Oxford to meet up with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ainsoph15 for Old Roman Shit and Boozing, then two weeks after that it's up to Scotland to be fed Nutella crepes by goblin_dae and gush over her new little terror kitten!
My, it's almost like I have a social life.
But yes, holiday! I AM GOING TO GO HAVE FUN AND NOT THINK ABOUT HOW SHITTY MY MASTERS IS TURNING OUT.
However, I need to rewatch this to calm myself down after the horror of all the extra charges Jet2 springs on you. £33 for one item of checked baggage and then another £30 to check it in! EACH WAY. Thieving fucktards, you're not getting that from me. I will only take carry-on and will wash my knickers in my hotel sink just to spite you.
And, and, and, the weekend after we get back from that I am going down to Oxford to meet up with
ainsoph15 for Old Roman Shit and Boozing, then two weeks after that it's up to Scotland to be fed Nutella crepes by goblin_dae and gush over her new little My, it's almost like I have a social life.
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Date: 2011-08-11 07:21 pm (UTC)LOOK AT YOU. HAVING A SOCIAL LIFE!
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Date: 2011-08-11 07:35 pm (UTC)OH GOD I CAN'T WAIT TO SQUISH YOUR WEE FAAACE.
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Date: 2011-08-11 07:43 pm (UTC)LOL. IT WILL BE AWESOME HOMGGG
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Date: 2011-08-11 08:23 pm (UTC)FUCKING FUTURE CONTINGENTS, GODAMMIT.
(I am just very excited in general right now :D ♥)
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Date: 2011-08-12 03:09 am (UTC)I WILL HUNT YOU ALL DOWN AND SPIT ON YOUR TOOTHBRUSHES IF YOU ARE ALL IN NZ NEXT JULY-AUGUST. I REALLY WILL.
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Date: 2011-08-12 06:15 am (UTC)You're coming over next year? :D I AM GOING TO GO OUT ON A LIMB HERE, AND MAKE THE ASSUMPTION THAT ALL THE OLD ROMAN SHIT WILL STILL BE HERE BY THEN (provided that the entirety of the UK hasn't crashed and burned, and won't be overrun with marauding gangs of slavering youths. Oh wait, that was this week...) AND THAT YES, YES, WE SHALL HAVE MEET-UPS TO LOOK AT THE OLD ROMAN SHIT AND TALK ABOUT FILTH AND HAVE MANY A BACCHIC REVELRY :D :D :D
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Date: 2011-08-12 04:25 pm (UTC)FUCKING HEMISPHERES, HOW DO THEY WORK?
The roman shit will probably still be there, yes. unless it is all burnt down in the next week or two? PLEASE STOP RIOTING, YOUTH OF ENGLAND.
I CANNOT WAIT TO DISCUSS FILTH AND DRINK BEER WITH PEOPLE WHO I ONLY ASSUME ARE STABLE/REAL, BASED ON THEIR ONLINE PERSONAS. BEST VACATION EVER?
also, I meant to friend you approx 150 years ago, and I didn't, mostly because the telegraph was broken. There.
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Date: 2011-08-12 06:06 pm (UTC)Nah, the youth of England won't be going anywhere near the old Roman shit. They might catch an interest in culture from it which doesn't revolve around stealing shit and beating people up. URGH! CULTURE COOTIES!
AH HA HA HA. I FEEL BOTH PROUD, AND SOMEWHAT PERTURBED FOR YOU, THAT YOU ASSUME THAT ANY OF US ARE STABLE OR REAL.
YES, BEST VACATION EVER. And I promise I won't take you to the nearest swimming pool, and say 'THIS IS BATH. BEHOLD THE MAGNIFICENT ARCHITECTURE.' I AM NOT DUPLICITOUS ABOUT WALLS AND STUFF UNLIKE SOME OTHER PEOPLE I WON'T MENTION :p
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Date: 2011-08-12 09:41 am (UTC)I hope you don't have high expectations about the quality of our old Roman shit. It consists of about 4 bricks. Four more than you lot have, but the Colosseum it ain't.
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Date: 2011-08-12 04:42 pm (UTC)ACTUALLY, THE COLOSSEUM IS PRETTY GARBAGE TOO, TO BE PERFECTLY HONEST. MOST OF ROME IS TATTERED AND FULL OF CIGARETTE BUTTS. THE PANTHEON IS NICE.
I RECOMMEND POSITANO. ROMAN SHIT, GREEK SHIT, ETRUSCAN SHIT, AND LOTS OF RUSTIC ITALIAN 20 YEAR OLDS WITH VERY LARGE CALF MUSCLES.
also, everything in Seattle is so goddamn young. it's beyond irritating. We live in a 100 year old brick apartment building that still has the original ice box and art-deco door bell, and when people see our lace they want to poo themselves, because everything else is from 1972.
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Date: 2011-08-12 10:02 am (UTC)AND YES, I AGREE WITH AINSOPH HERE! I THINK THE ROMAN SHIT WILL STILL BE THERE. IT'S OLD FOR A REASON. I DON'T THINK IT TRAVELLED MUCH IN THE RECENT YEARS.
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Date: 2011-08-12 04:44 pm (UTC)IF HADIRAN'S WALL IS GONE BY NEXT JULY I'M GOING TO BE ALL ANNIE-SMASH-PUNCH-RAGE.
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Date: 2011-08-12 10:04 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-08-12 11:01 am (UTC)but he just needs to tell me if we have to move or if we can stay in the flat :(
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Date: 2011-08-11 09:53 pm (UTC)Dear Ainsoph, do you have any beloved pets or children we can kidnap and threaten you with? If not, it will have to be the hot poker plan.
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Date: 2011-08-11 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-11 10:03 pm (UTC)That shouldn't put us off though. I'll start ironing my inquisitor robes.
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Date: 2011-08-11 10:08 pm (UTC)I shall prepare the soft cushions.
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Date: 2011-08-12 06:25 am (UTC)P-PLEASE TELL ME THERE WON'T BE ANY CRISPS EITHER. OR *sob* WINE.
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Date: 2011-08-12 10:04 am (UTC)YOU WILL HAVE TO DESERVE THAT PUNISHMENT. AND SO SOMETHING COMPLETELY *AWFUL*
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Date: 2011-08-12 06:20 am (UTC)I AM SORRY, MOTHER! I DO NOT WANT THE FIERY POKER! I HAVE THROWN YOU TO THE LIONS! Or, rather, to the godless heathens *g*
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Date: 2011-08-12 09:29 am (UTC)Unless she has some pretty embarrassing stories about you I can use as blackmail material...
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Date: 2011-08-12 12:02 pm (UTC)Ha ha, but you would crease up with laughter if you were watching me trying to type this comment in the tiniest window possible, furtively looking around in case anyone at work goes, 'OH HEY, ISN'T THAT MARCUS AND ESCA??? ARE YOU DOING SOME PICTURE RESEARCH FOR TRADE BOOKS?'
AND THEN, I TRULY WOULD DIE OF EMBARRASSMENT. AND POSSIBLY GET THE SACK. OR WORSE.
*makes window even smaller*