We're drinking Margueritas, not sipping you understand, drinking, because we're on holiday and the sun is shining. Also, we've eaten too much, far, far too much and everyone knows that alcohol cures stomach upsets. At least, my Aunt used to recommend different alcoholic drinks for different ailments. I remember that brandy was the cure for anything to do with stomachs, but then probably she didn't know about Margs. Today is both St. James's day and Austen's birthday. We had planned to visit the Anglo-Catholic church of St. James in Vancouver today, but plans have had to be flexible.
In fact we have spent the last couple of days filling the fridge with food. The fridge is groaning. Jet lag has kicked in and sleeping patterns have been all over the place. At least my own has settled down.
The sales are on, aren't they great? Alex and I bought jumpers for $2.97 yesterday in Old Navy, and these were jumpers we might have bought at full price.
An article in today's Guardian points out that tourism to the US from Britain has declined dramatically since 2000.
The writer says that he can fully understand Brits avoiding the plastic tourist traps of Florida and Las Vegas, but there is a beautiful and amazing country out there to explore.
Usually I am fairly appalled by the comments, you worry about the readership of the Guardian when you read the abysmal standard of writing and thinking, but one very strong message came out from this one. People don't want to be treated like criminals trying to enter the US. And that's a very valid point.
There is no reason why visitors to the country have to be labelled 'aliens' and even from my own experience the self same forms and questions can be filled in and answered without tarring everyone with the same brush.
The behemoth. Austen and Sue have rented one. They were very careful to get one just big enough to seat everyone but not unnecessarily big. Thought was put into this. On almost every occasion, we can all get in it and when only a couple of us are going out we go in Kev's environmentally acceptable vehicle.
All of which actually makes me even more judgemental of people who drive this kind of vehicle almost empty, or who park in the 'small cars' spaces.
Summer is doing its stuff.
3 comments:
Could it be that people are not visiting the US because, like me, they just hate the Septics?
That doesn't really work for me on the basis that the majority of British people all claim to hate the French, yet the self same ppl go off in droves to France.
They go to France for booze and fags!
Pompey people have a special hatred for them because they sold Exocets to the Argy's during the Falklands War.
Exocets that hit our ships and killed our sailors.
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