Home Again, Home Again …

It is always nice to return home, especially after a long business trip. I will not go into the details of work (since some folks from the office actually read my crap), but the trip was very draining. I did get to see some football in an English pub, and I got to try all sorts of beer (that is always the fun part). In Chester I got to run around the old Roman wall, which was great exercise, and extremely entertaining. It is hard to believe that this wall was built 1000+ years ago; nothing like that in Georgia. I also had beer in some extremely old pubs, including a couple that were underground, and once used as Roman barracks.

The not so fun part of the trip was getting sick; very, very sick. I cannot recall ever feel as bad as I did Monday morning at the train station. Not sure if it was a virus or some bad clams from the night before, but the train ride from London to Chester was the trip form hell. I never thought I would make it without hurling all over the place, but thank the good Lord that I did make it in one piece.

I did not get in much gaming, except for a couple of hours on the plane with the PSP. Lumines, Pinball Hall of Fame, and Winning Eleven receive all the action, so noting really new to report.

At any rate, I am glad to be back on US soil!

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4 thoughts on “Home Again, Home Again …”

  1. I’m going for vacation for two weeks, first week in Paris and second week in London.

    I’d like to find a pub or bar showing the games but I have low tolerance for smoking. UK has been debating about enacting smoking bans at least at places where they serve food but they’ve been debating for over a year.

    There’s also some theaters showing the matches in high definition but they’re charging like 12 pounds per person.

    Yowza London is expensive.

  2. Just a bit too early, WCO – England bans smoking in enclosed public places from 2007. It’s already in place in Scotland, as of Mar 2006 (and having been in many Scots pubs, the fact that it was enacted without armed insurrection is a surprise in itself..)

  3. Not sure what the laws are (dave would know better), but in London there was very little smoking in the various pubs that I visited. Chester was much different – tons of smoke.

  4. Smoking isn’t legally banned yet, but a lot of places have taken the opportunity to get in there early. London is more geared up for the tourist, whereas you may have gone into some of the ‘locals’ pubs in Chester.

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