Euro 2008
“…and as we waited for the team’s bus to come through we sang Spanish songs and chants from the bottom of our hearts. Granted we had no idea what we were singing, but we shouted it at the top of our lungs just like the millions around us…”
June 30, 2008
June 29, 2008
Ten Things I Learned in Barcelona:
“Also be prepared to have all eyes on you as you will undoubtedly be mistaken for that white Crayola crayon they lost back in 2nd grade. (hint: get a tan, even if it’s fake, unless you what to bask in looks of disbelief and disgust from all the brown and toned pretty people sharing the sand.)”
June 27, 2008
Getting to Barcelona
“The guy behind me laughed and said: “Mates wasted!”. The others started laughing as well but soon stopped as the young man in the front began to spasm and lose all color in his skin. He was sweating profusely, eyes roving about vacantly.”
June 26, 2008
Breakfast at Harrods
“I got the feeling that if I lived in London. Harrods would be my happy place. In the Holly Golightly sense, it would be my Tiffany’s for whenever the reds, or blues, or any other color struck.”
June 25, 2008
My Little Brother in London
“Essentially the restaurant is his mistress, he tries to sneak away to it whenever his wife isn’t looking. It made me imagine him coming home, denying where he had been, only for Anna to see a BBQ smear on his collar.”
June 21, 2008
Sligo
“standing around that fire with friends, all still warming from jumping in ice cold water, sipping on Tom’s generously donated top-shelf Irish whisky, watching the sparks and flickers of the fire float upwards blending into the full night’s sky of stars, and hearing Sam’s high, hollowly tenor, singing warm melodies that you can’t believe he’s written.”
June 17, 2008
Friends in London
“Normally (as egotistical as it sounds) someone will name a band and I can list of their earlier albums, side projects, etc, but with Jon I had to stop counting the times I said: “I’ve never even heard of them” only for him to grow in excitement and whip out the CD with you-have-to-listen-to-this flourish.”
June 15, 2008
Highlights of the Highlands (Scotland round 2)
“Soon that would build up and then some silly crewman with a lantern would come too close and blow the whole thing up!” Tina looked skeptical. I think we both thought the aspiring etymologist was full of… well… ship high in transit.”
June 13, 2008
A Quick Venice Story
“As I walked on to meet up with three friends I love, I considered how spoiled I have been and hoped that the acknowledgment of this fact would make a humbler future-me rather than a pretentious “oh yeah, I’ve been there before” ascot-wearing-story-killer.”
June 12, 2008
“Ah, Venice” -Dr. Jones
“People speak of it in a tone typically reserved for places only known to our dreams or wildest imagination and because of that thoroughly convincing tone no one objects when they regard it as the most beautiful city in the world. A place where miracles happen, where love is real, where heaven exists on earth. “