Morgan's Manor - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

9/11 museum, wow. Off to support Colombia with the rest of this city now.

 

Rolf Harris denies being aware of having child pornography, despite his multiple visits to 'teeny tiny girlfriends' and 'young little girlies' via search engines.


Hmmmmmmmmm.

 

I am in Bari, continuing my travels through Europe with my wife. So far been in Belgium, Germany, Austria, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro. San Marino tomorrow and then Switzerland and Netherlands before returning home via champagne in France.

I'm very chipper!

 

Lucky man. Can you squeeze a trip a little further south after Champagne? Beaune is the capital of burgundy and about 2.5 hours south of Reims... Very quaint town and one or two lovely drops of vino! Nuit St George 8km north and Mersault 7km south. Heaven.

 

The trip is open so I'll submit it to the organising committee (my wife). Been a great trip so far, Slovenia a surprising highlight, great to drive the whole way too although bringing my car off the ferry in Bari was the most terrifying experience of my life. Italian's make driving in Kuwait look like a Sunday morning stretch!

 

Yes, driving in Italy is fun. Where you driving back via as in which port? Bari again?

Enjoy the trip

 

Went to Bari once...at that time one plane from the UK landed every week, delivering tourists and picking up the ones from the previous week. Might be a bit more on the beaten track now

 

Not going back that way. We're taking the short way around, heading north from here and then crossing back to the UK from France at the end of the trip.

Croatia is the most alarmingly beautiful country I have ever visited. I heartily recommend it to all and everyone. Unbelievable seafood and wine too. Lot's of delicious homemade brandy, "Harsh on your neck, but it will hit your head like a hammer." Plitvice national park was stunning, mountains, waterfalls, forests, turquoise lakes. Zagreb and the inMusic festival was a riot of debauchery and insanity. Don't give the Slovenians free drinks, it leads to absinthe and Metallica singalongs at 9AM.

 

No tourists to be seen, but we're staying with a friend here and she has been telling us how miserable the region is and how rapt with the depression is has gotten. We met a family last night where the husband has not been able to find work for 9 months. Our host has has to close her group of dance schools she ran and now has resigned herself to leaving the country. Where there are jobs, people are not getting paid. It's crazy.

 

It was poor when I was there, but people managed a living. The difference between the south and north is dramatic. Sad to hear.

 

NC house for sale....will have to look down the back of the sofa to buy this...

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11322571.Cortese_selling_his_home_for___2_1m/?ref=twt

 

Why are their hundreds of thousands of people in Yorkshire just watching a load of cyclists poodle by?

 

Ha ha. I wanted to go to "Yugoslavia back around 88-91. I never went and wish I had. Then they had their problems and I never went. I will put it back in the agenda. I have a friend who went to the coast there and said it was stunning.

 

They are not watching cycling CBK, they are queing up for electricity. The local council have told people that this is the latest 'power generation' called electricity. They've been promised it in Yorkshire for decades and so they're very excited to eventually be getting it.

 

Loved Croatia. Need a much longer stay there to feel like I'm not missing out on loads.

 

5 bedrooms, kitchen, dining room, lounge, orangery and a very special "video room" complete with handcuffs and torture equipment.

 

Guy I know went to Croatia and said the place is lovely.

 

Friends of mine go every year and can't speak highly enough of Croatia and it's beauty.

 

Blimey, both Ferraris and both Williams out of Q1 in qualifying for British GP.

 

Went to the old Yugoslavia...truly beautiful. Don't know which bit is in which present day country...saw the Plitvice Lakes, Porec and Kranska Gora amongst other things. Seemed very poor and not much in the shops, but Russians went there for shopping and holidays, so heaven knows what Russian shops had. The tv in the hotel lounge showed a communist party conference to a completely empty room apart from our guide. She had been in the resistance during the war and hated Germans with a vengeance...took us to visit a village wiped out during the war by the Germans...don't know what the Germans in our party thought. All the goods were priced, but the locals halved it for the English...they called the marked price 'the German price.' Must go back again.