Posts made in May, 2010

Nice Nice

Posted by Ben on May 22, 2010 | 3 comments

I have to start making a bigger effort with these blogs. They’re getting harder to write. Not because I don’t enjoy writing them, but because I’m being backlogged with so many other stories since I returned to London that I’m beginning to forget details from Europe.

On our way to the French Riviera we stopped off at a local perfumery – I hated it.

I don’t have a lot to tell here because I walked in the door, walked into the room where they crush whatever it is they do to make perfumes and walked straight back out. I’ll tell you what, it awakened the senses, my eyes were stinging, my nose was running and my throat was burning. It was like being trapped in an isolation chamber with Donal after twelve cans of chilli con carne (I grabbed this metaphor because I’m looking at tinned chilli for twelve pence a tin we bought from ASDA (which is like ALDI) – a story for another time).

Lauterbrunnen

Posted by Ben on May 7, 2010 | 1 comment

Well I’m back to post another blog – finally.

I apologise for the delay, but my life has taken such a busy turn that I struggle to find the time to keep it as updated as I’d like. I’m actually lying, although I’ve been really busy sorting everything out over here in London, I still manage to find sufficient time to stalk as many facebook pages as I can while you’re sleeping.

So anyway, the morning after that bender in Paris, I woke up at about 8am wondering why my alarm hadn’t gone off. I then realised it was because I had actually set the alarm for 8pm that evening – wishful thinking. I really wasn’t too phased though because I was just stoked I managed to set an alarm at all.

I could tell it was a good night because Donal, Ping and I all woke up in our undies. This is either a funny story, or a downright scary one. Either way, I’m glad I don’t remember the previous night too well. We were too hung over for showers and breakfast and we were running too late for either anyhow, so we got straight onto the bus and began our trip to Lauterbrunnen which is situated in the Swiss Alps.