Germany/Bulgaria Trip Diary
"Singing in the Rain..."
Day 1
Well I finally
got lucky at Alicante airport where I am getting to know the security staff and
ice cream sellers quite well! Today was "International Ugly Shorts Day"
and I got to actually witness this amazing contest. I must have missed it
last year… it kind of comes and goes, like the English summer.
There were so
many contestants and I certainly couldn´t have picked a winner because some of
the entries were absolutely breathtaking in their ugliness. Where do they
find this stuff? And what kind of mirror do they look in? The only
consolation was the certain knowledge that no sane human being would wear these
things on a normal day… just for today´s contest. But, then again, this IS
Alicante airport!
Then…. As if
this all had not been enough already… I had the most incredible ice cream.
How do I know it was incredible? Because it was €4.75 ($6.00) for two
small scoops (vanilla of course)!!!! So that´s another little pleasure
gone for ever.
Anyway, I´m
off to Germany on my favourite airline, Air Berlin. I will meet the band
in Stuttgart to begin our short time together and hope it will be the best it
can be. More soon…
Have you ever
notice that smokers are generally thinner than non-smokers? And, amidst
all this "behaviour change" hue and cry about cigarettes, have you ever stopped
to think about how much carbon monoxide poison we inhale just simply being out
in the open air? Think cars will be banned??
I arrived safe
and sound in Stuttgart and met the guys at the airport. Apart from some
understandable concern about a couple of pieces of missing luggage, everyone was
in good spirits as we boarded the shuttle bus to the hotel.
It was quite late but the hotel had prepared sandwiches, cakes and beer for us
so we went off to bed happy.
