Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Mike's travels - the final word.
(This is a little late, but I forgot to post it on here...)
Mike's final thoughts.
So I went, I saw, I came home. What lessons have we learned from this trip ?
1. Considering our quality of life, life in England is overly expensive, transport is crap, and when Summer comes elsewhere in the world, the entire population and their caravans don't all head down the same bloody motorway to the same few nice beaches.
2. "The Beach" does exist, and you don't need a hand-drawn map to find it.
3. Taxi drivers in Kuala Lumpur are honest folk.
4. Yes, it is worth going on a 9-hour flight to get to your Summer Holiday rather than the typical 3-hour jobby to Spain. It's worth the effort.
5. Call that rain ? Pah. We don't *know* what real rain is.
6. Not all Americans are fat or obnoxious.
7. Life without Pfizer is possible.
Mike's final thoughts.
So I went, I saw, I came home. What lessons have we learned from this trip ?
1. Considering our quality of life, life in England is overly expensive, transport is crap, and when Summer comes elsewhere in the world, the entire population and their caravans don't all head down the same bloody motorway to the same few nice beaches.
2. "The Beach" does exist, and you don't need a hand-drawn map to find it.
3. Taxi drivers in Kuala Lumpur are honest folk.
4. Yes, it is worth going on a 9-hour flight to get to your Summer Holiday rather than the typical 3-hour jobby to Spain. It's worth the effort.
5. Call that rain ? Pah. We don't *know* what real rain is.
6. Not all Americans are fat or obnoxious.
7. Life without Pfizer is possible.
# posted by MikeGledhill @ 1:13 pm 
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Is this all you've learned from your travels?!
I'm suprised, although the one about Americans did suprise me a little more.
Thing is we in Britain know only too well about the weather, the caravans, the beaches, the transport, the cost of living, and thats what makes us British.
In the end, we are more than the sum of our parts, and this is highlighted more to me when I was talking to a Singaporean who was in Britain on a course I was on. While talking, he was distracted by something over my shoulder. I looked around and saw nothing except a few trees. He explained that he was watching the leaves fall off the trees and swirl around in the wind. Something he'd never seen before - after all, the seasons in Singapore consist of sunny and hot, or raining and hot.
Isn't it better to be somewhere that offers us more than most?
While we moan and groan about the state of transport, the beaches and how crap it is here; I think this is done out of frustration because we don't have anything *real* to moan about.
Thank God we don't live in Hong Kong, for example! Thank God we're not in Ethiopia!
I would count my blessings - the world is a big place, but Britain is where it's at. For me, at least.
My thoughts are with you, travelling man...
I'm suprised, although the one about Americans did suprise me a little more.
Thing is we in Britain know only too well about the weather, the caravans, the beaches, the transport, the cost of living, and thats what makes us British.
In the end, we are more than the sum of our parts, and this is highlighted more to me when I was talking to a Singaporean who was in Britain on a course I was on. While talking, he was distracted by something over my shoulder. I looked around and saw nothing except a few trees. He explained that he was watching the leaves fall off the trees and swirl around in the wind. Something he'd never seen before - after all, the seasons in Singapore consist of sunny and hot, or raining and hot.
Isn't it better to be somewhere that offers us more than most?
While we moan and groan about the state of transport, the beaches and how crap it is here; I think this is done out of frustration because we don't have anything *real* to moan about.
Thank God we don't live in Hong Kong, for example! Thank God we're not in Ethiopia!
I would count my blessings - the world is a big place, but Britain is where it's at. For me, at least.
My thoughts are with you, travelling man...
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