My Backside!

Speaking of Holland, a Dutchman joined the throng this week and of course his English is excellent. Except when he said that he, "Entered the hotel from the backside."

I said, "Steady on!", the way we do.

He looked puzzled, I explained!!

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A Dutch Field: collapse of the world order?

I am on a train half way down Holland from Amsterdam and I have just seen a field near Utrecht with a slight slope on it.

What next one wonders?

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DXB egate mega top tip

So you go to Dubai by air a few times a year and you love the place: it's not a difficult place to love.

But you know your heart sinks when you come face to face with the immigration queues both when arriving (especially) and leaving. My worst nightmare on arrival was queuing for over two hours ... middle of the night after a largely sleepless night flight ...

Get yourself an egate pass. Issued by the Ministry of Interior and it will cost you just AED200 at the time of writing. You will breeze through all immigration formalities with this pass and feel much better for it. You get an ID card and they scan your fingerprints.

Magical top tip that one.

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Be a Loser to Win

Remember Piers Morgan? He is the editor of the Daily Mirror who proved his worth by being sacked for incompetence.

Since then I see he has become a judge on America's got Talent (sic) and The Celebrity Apprentice.

A lesson for life? Well, it is in this modern nonsense world.

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Low Cost Airlines? What a Joke

So, I will be in Germany over the weekend and need a one way flight home. I have booked my flight and it has cost me a staggering £160++.

The flight was nowhere near full when I booked AND they sneaked in a charge for choosing my seat. It says pay more for an exit seat and even more for extra leg room. It does NOT say you will pay just for choosing any old seat. They charge though!

I am just grateful that I don't deal with these people very often.

The headline price of the ticket is €140. What I actually paid is about 40% more than that.

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More Cruddy Language

I watched a few minutes of a film the other night about King Arthur ... English king of yore and he of the Round Table.

I switched off when one of the characters was made to say in faux mediaeval English that he should leave "right now".

Who are these people who write such nonsense?

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Memory Lane

On the plane last night and the films were just rubbish. The good news though is that I got the chance to listen to some really good, old fashioned high quality music.

The Beatles
Elvis
Queen
Simon and Garfunkle
ABBA
And so on

Life defining music every last song. I'm afraid modern pop slop does nothing for me

DW


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