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Just a load of random thoughts and stuff i've been up to, probably not worth reading...Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Expensive week!
It was very nice getting my car last year and having everything paid for a year, tax, MOT, service etc. But that's now meant that's it's all up at once a year later!!
Took it to Toyota today for the service and MOT, £160 (ouch), but it could have been worse and i'd much prefer to take a car that age to somewhere like that rather than some dodgy backstreet garage! Got an Aygo as the hire car too. The most basic car ever! But suprisingly quick actually - probably cos it's all made of plastic!
Next it's the road tax, another 150 quid!!! Like I said, expensive week...
Oh yeah, we got another 'entertaining' bill today, from the water company this time. Apparently, we are using an average of 2200 litres of water a day! Bearing mind the national average for a whole family is about 150 litres a day! Hmmmmm. I think somebody in one of the other apartments is syphoning off our water to fill their olympic sized swimming pool or perhaps we're helping to top up the local reservoir!?
Why can't utility companies ever get bills right???
Took it to Toyota today for the service and MOT, £160 (ouch), but it could have been worse and i'd much prefer to take a car that age to somewhere like that rather than some dodgy backstreet garage! Got an Aygo as the hire car too. The most basic car ever! But suprisingly quick actually - probably cos it's all made of plastic!
Next it's the road tax, another 150 quid!!! Like I said, expensive week...
Oh yeah, we got another 'entertaining' bill today, from the water company this time. Apparently, we are using an average of 2200 litres of water a day! Bearing mind the national average for a whole family is about 150 litres a day! Hmmmmm. I think somebody in one of the other apartments is syphoning off our water to fill their olympic sized swimming pool or perhaps we're helping to top up the local reservoir!?
Why can't utility companies ever get bills right???
Labels: Random rants
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Rome (after)
Well, i'm back! Got back in about eight last night.
Seems like no time at all since I was posting before I left earlier in the week :-( But actually the four days we were there seemed to last quite long, mainly because we packed them full of stuff!
Had a well good time, but I have never walked so much in my life! You certainly need to be prepared to be on your feet a lot if you visit Rome. It was definitely worth it though, we spent two full days in the city itself and pretty much covered all the major sights.
It's a really interesting city, every corner you turn there's another impressive building or ruin, there's barely a modern building in the city! The most impressive area has to be around the Coleseum and the roman forum though. I never realised how big the forum ruins were.
On the first day we went on a hop-on/hop-off bus so we could find our way around the city and so we got to stop off at a lot of the interesting places like the Trevi fountain and the Pantheon etc.
On thursday we had a tour around the Coleseum and the area around the Palatine Hill which was well worth the money and really interesting. Again a lot of walking though!
Oh yeah it was also seriously hot! You can certainly see why all the Romans desert the city to go to the coast in August! It was a joy getting back to the hotel in the evening and having a nice air conditioned room to sleep in! Slept better than I have been doing here!
The hotel was really nice too, only problem with it being a little way out was getting back and fourth to Rome, cos the public transport, although cheap, stops stupidly early in the evenings! Thankfully though, the hotel ran a shuttle bus, so it was relatively easy as long as we didn't stay in Rome to later. Would have been nice to see it all lit up at night though.
We got a bit of time off our feet on Friday with the trip to Naples and Pompeii. Again that was really worth doing and Pompeii was amazing, way more impressive than I even expected, everything is just so well preserved and it's such a huge area too!
Could definitely have spent quite a bit longer at Pompeii because there was so much to see, but I think we got taken round the majority of the most interesting bits! Although we did miss the brothel lol. There was a massive queue to get in this place, because basically it still had the original paintings on the walls of... well, what the customers might like to try while they were there!
We didn't end up getting back til about 10:30 that night, bearing mind we got up at 5:30 to go, mainly because we were having an unplanned evening tour around Rome! We were planned to get dropped off at our hotels by the bus driver, but since we were one of the last, the english guide got off, leaving us with the italian bus driver who didn't seem to know his way to our hotel and took what can only be described as the 'scenic route'! Got there in the end though, so it was all good!
Well, there's plenty of other stuff to write about, but I think i'll leave it at this for now! Of course all the photos - about 100, are in the process of being uploaded to Gallery now!
Seems like no time at all since I was posting before I left earlier in the week :-( But actually the four days we were there seemed to last quite long, mainly because we packed them full of stuff!
Had a well good time, but I have never walked so much in my life! You certainly need to be prepared to be on your feet a lot if you visit Rome. It was definitely worth it though, we spent two full days in the city itself and pretty much covered all the major sights.
It's a really interesting city, every corner you turn there's another impressive building or ruin, there's barely a modern building in the city! The most impressive area has to be around the Coleseum and the roman forum though. I never realised how big the forum ruins were.
On the first day we went on a hop-on/hop-off bus so we could find our way around the city and so we got to stop off at a lot of the interesting places like the Trevi fountain and the Pantheon etc.
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On thursday we had a tour around the Coleseum and the area around the Palatine Hill which was well worth the money and really interesting. Again a lot of walking though!
Oh yeah it was also seriously hot! You can certainly see why all the Romans desert the city to go to the coast in August! It was a joy getting back to the hotel in the evening and having a nice air conditioned room to sleep in! Slept better than I have been doing here!
The hotel was really nice too, only problem with it being a little way out was getting back and fourth to Rome, cos the public transport, although cheap, stops stupidly early in the evenings! Thankfully though, the hotel ran a shuttle bus, so it was relatively easy as long as we didn't stay in Rome to later. Would have been nice to see it all lit up at night though.
We got a bit of time off our feet on Friday with the trip to Naples and Pompeii. Again that was really worth doing and Pompeii was amazing, way more impressive than I even expected, everything is just so well preserved and it's such a huge area too!
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Could definitely have spent quite a bit longer at Pompeii because there was so much to see, but I think we got taken round the majority of the most interesting bits! Although we did miss the brothel lol. There was a massive queue to get in this place, because basically it still had the original paintings on the walls of... well, what the customers might like to try while they were there!
We didn't end up getting back til about 10:30 that night, bearing mind we got up at 5:30 to go, mainly because we were having an unplanned evening tour around Rome! We were planned to get dropped off at our hotels by the bus driver, but since we were one of the last, the english guide got off, leaving us with the italian bus driver who didn't seem to know his way to our hotel and took what can only be described as the 'scenic route'! Got there in the end though, so it was all good!
Well, there's plenty of other stuff to write about, but I think i'll leave it at this for now! Of course all the photos - about 100, are in the process of being uploaded to Gallery now!
Labels: Holidays
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Rome (before)
Holiday today :-D :-D
Flight is at 7:50 tonight, so got a while yet but off work so it's all good!
Can't believe this is the first proper holiday I have been on since the end of sixth form! (apart from Center Parcs) And I think it's even longer for Claire! Gonna be well good I hope. We booked a day tour thing to see Naples and Pompeii, should be really interesting to see.
Of course I'm taking my camera so hopefully I'll take stupid amounts of photos and upload them all to gallery when i get back of course!
Better start packing... more posts to follow on my return!
Flight is at 7:50 tonight, so got a while yet but off work so it's all good!
Can't believe this is the first proper holiday I have been on since the end of sixth form! (apart from Center Parcs) And I think it's even longer for Claire! Gonna be well good I hope. We booked a day tour thing to see Naples and Pompeii, should be really interesting to see.
Of course I'm taking my camera so hopefully I'll take stupid amounts of photos and upload them all to gallery when i get back of course!
Better start packing... more posts to follow on my return!
Labels: Holidays
Monday, July 03, 2006
Talked that one up...
Looks like I spoke to soon about Murray....
He just lost in straight sets in his fourth round match against Baghdatis. Oh well! Perhaps it was the heat, it's just a little bit warm today again... I think it's time for a beer garden this evening, if we can get a table that is.
Although that's one of the benefits of being able to see your local out the window :)
Don't think it'll have to be a very late one though, absolutley knackered, basically got no sleep last night! I love the hot weather, but why can't it be nice and cool at night!!!
He just lost in straight sets in his fourth round match against Baghdatis. Oh well! Perhaps it was the heat, it's just a little bit warm today again... I think it's time for a beer garden this evening, if we can get a table that is.
Although that's one of the benefits of being able to see your local out the window :)
Don't think it'll have to be a very late one though, absolutley knackered, basically got no sleep last night! I love the hot weather, but why can't it be nice and cool at night!!!
Labels: Sport
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Extreme Badminton!
Me and Mike decided it would be a good idea to play badminton this afternoon.... Yes, badminton, mid-afternoon, in 31 degree temperatures in a sports hall!
To be fair we were going to play tennis, which would have been (slightly) worse, out in the sun!
You can tell we were the only mental ones because out of the 11-12 courts they have at Chilwell, we were the only people playing! To top it off, because it was just me and Mike, we weren't exactly playing easy games! We managed to play five 15 point games, and most of them were close as usual.
Not a good day to start playing proper 15 point games! Ah well, it was all good fun in the end, all helps to improve endurance.
...Oh yeah and I won four of them ;-)
Apart from badminton had a pretty boring weekend again, just counting down to going away now!
Shame about the football yesterday, even not being much of a football fan, that match was one of the most stressful things I have ever watched! They did really deserve to win after fighting that long with 10 men, but oh well.
On a good point, it seems we may at last have signs of a decent tennis player! I know theres always stupid amounts of hype around british players, because we're clutching at any opportunity we can get basically, but seeing a couple Andy Murray's Wimbledon matches this year, particularly yesterdays brilliant display against Andy Roddick, I've got to say I'm impressed! Lets just hope he can keep it up... bring on Federer!
To be fair we were going to play tennis, which would have been (slightly) worse, out in the sun!
You can tell we were the only mental ones because out of the 11-12 courts they have at Chilwell, we were the only people playing! To top it off, because it was just me and Mike, we weren't exactly playing easy games! We managed to play five 15 point games, and most of them were close as usual.
Not a good day to start playing proper 15 point games! Ah well, it was all good fun in the end, all helps to improve endurance.
...Oh yeah and I won four of them ;-)
Apart from badminton had a pretty boring weekend again, just counting down to going away now!
Shame about the football yesterday, even not being much of a football fan, that match was one of the most stressful things I have ever watched! They did really deserve to win after fighting that long with 10 men, but oh well.
On a good point, it seems we may at last have signs of a decent tennis player! I know theres always stupid amounts of hype around british players, because we're clutching at any opportunity we can get basically, but seeing a couple Andy Murray's Wimbledon matches this year, particularly yesterdays brilliant display against Andy Roddick, I've got to say I'm impressed! Lets just hope he can keep it up... bring on Federer!
Labels: Sport
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