The text message I sent to
th_esaurus early on in my holiday:
The colours in Greece are very bright and warm, like someone's turned up the saturation. On the downside, today I had literal ants in my literal pants.
The message I sent towards the end:
I'M IN ITHACA, FUCK YOU ODYSSEUSSo, yes, I've spent the past week in Greece! On the extremely beautiful
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Dad: Binky is starting to annoy me. She's always complaining about her life.
Harriet: If you don't like hearing about Binky's life, have you considered reading something other than Binky's memoirs?
I feel for your dad. Running out of reading material on holiday is a nightmarish experience. It happened to me on a family holiday as a teenager, and I started having feverish dreams about libraries every night.
(You and your family are, as ever, hilarious.)
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I was reading Bring up the Bodies on my last holiday, which lasted me for most of it. Long books are a holiday must.
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(I, er, hope you were well supplied with food and water on your Thailand flood train. Well, I suppose you were well supplied with water in any case, but I hope you had something to drink.)
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(I love your family holiday posts. The Tipp-Ex line in particular was epic. :D )
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...when you put it that way, it makes me think that maybe my friend was on to something with staying far away. Maybe she realised we hadn't planned ahead and hired a convenient crew of sailors to sacrifice towards our getaway plan.
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But did you bond with any GFs?
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(Imagine your brother's girlfriend being Doomtrain.)
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The trees are painted white to stop ants hurting them. Or at least that's what our tour guide said.
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