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Well it's an honour and all that and i'm sure it's be great when it happens but jesus it's going to cost us..

Still i'm sure it'll be worth it in about 15 years.... hopefully.

I saw them celebrating in Trafalgar Square.

Brought me back to my visit there on my honeymoon, I'd sure love to make a trip out there again but will probably have to wait until after the Olympics. The exchange rate coupled with all of the visitors would make it almost impossible to afford

You Brits have a lovely city there, any other places outside of London that would be worth a look? We took a day trip to Dover and Canterbury which was fun but otherwise we stayed in the center of the city for the most part.

Woohoo, Chirac, kiss our collective shiny asses.



Why Cambridge of course. Plus Bath, Durham, Lake District etc. Did I mention Cambridge?

But Dover? Why, there is nothing there!

Devon & cornwall are nice, as is the lake/peak districts, York is worth a weekend, Newcastle is an experiance if a little far from London.

If you're willing to travel Edinburgh is worth a visit but for the love of god and all things mercifull stay the f*ck away from Liverpool is the worst place i have ever been to in my life and that includes Guatamala and Belize.

It was part of the trip, white cliffs of Dover etc. We were there all of 5 min and then were off to Canterbury. I forgot our first stop was Leeds Castle on that tour.

We thought about going to Bath too, we'll go there next time. We did all the touristy things our first trip (for the love of all that is holy stay away from the London Dungeon, I want my 10 quid back), the Eye, Westminster Abbey, Saint Paul's Cathedral (the whispering dome is very cool), etc. I'm not sure how much of what England is really about you can get from those places. I left with a feeling of how incredibly old the country is, the history is amazing. For example, our last day there we went to a pub down the street from our hotel that has been operating as a pub since before America declared it's independance (The Black Lion). Very neat.

I ain't got an opinion either way, I'll let you know when i'm 25 when it's actually taking place.

Bahh.

The Old Crown in Birmingham started pulling pints in 1368.

You yanks need to learn the meaning of 'old'

The oldest pub is in Nottingham, 1160-something I think.

My first bar-job was in a pub given by the local (married) squire to his bit-on-the-side in the 1200s.

I suppose we take that old stuff for granted.

My parents live in a stone-built cottage in Scotland - originally 2 farm labourer's "Bothies" (a humble dwelling) which they've modernised inside but the walls are 28" thick granite. Dates from the early 1700s but there are ruins of a bronze age settlement nearby.

I grew up in the farmhouse that my father and grandfather were born in, built late 1700s. A farmhouse and corn mill had been on that site since the 11th Century.

The farmhouse was subject to a compulsory purchase order when I was 10 and demolished to make way for an industrial waste site. The only time I've ever seen my father shed tears.

/nods

I wonder if Sour Grapes taste nicer with Garlic?

The bed's turned down, the champagne's on ice, the candles are lit and dinner was put on the boil 3 days ago.

Ready and waitin'

But of course.

The finest Arthurian Breeze-blocks and red-brick atop a mound of blacktop with a moat of spilled Pepsi, and Safeway carrier-bags a-fluttering on the highest parapets of my TV Aerial.

Now enough of the small-talk.

Leurv that Parfum baby!

What is it?
Cheesburger? Nachos? Roadkill?

Why don't ya slip outta those overalls and I'll rub goose-fat into your tattoos. You know you want it baby!

/places a mirror, a razor-blade and a rolled-up 20 on the Louis XVI occasional table in the green room in the East Wing.

Ahem.

/taps foot

Waiting baby! This big-boy can only stay engorged for so long y'know!