h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I thought I was going back home today...
I'm not, though.

, should have read about it in your space. just did - and now i'm even more

hope for you and baby (well, that was the closest i could come to an appropiate smiley) that all turns out for the best

Don't be sorry, it's better than spendibg a night in Milan, alone with my baby.

What's so terrible about being alone with a baby in Milan?

If it's not you paying the hotel bill, and you actually speak Italian, know Milan, and don't have 2 suitcases and a pram to handle- I guess there's lots of joy in it. Anyway, it's too late. The flight's gone by now.

Oh, dear, that does sound kind of bleak. I hope to go to Italy with a choral group two years from now, and I *will* be paying all my own bills, and *will* have lots of luggage to carry around. And, it's not likely that I will understand Italian, though two years might be enough time to rectify that.

But I doubt Milan will be on the itinerary. Naples, Rome, and Venice would be among the most probable destinations. I personally am crazy about the idea of seeing the Colosseumn and the Appian Way. Or maybe I'm just crazy on geenral principles.

isralies should pay eachother and not get my wife in this mess

I agree.

Florence is great, I might drag someone there at some point.

you can try

i spent 9 hours in the airport of palma di mallorca once with the entire family 11 adults and 14 kids (of whom some were still in diapers) and thousands of other stranded passengers due to an air pilot strike .

we were promised free sandwiches and drinks, but they ran out of it before we could reach the counter

when i re-visited mallorca years later there was another strike but by then i was lucky to be on my own, so had no kids to worry about - contrary to the young couple in the next seat, whose baby obviously had both colic and a middle ear infection - and was teething

i have never been so happy coming home from a holiday!

But that was not a holiday from lunacy, Pierce.

What was it a holiday from, then, Paul?

It was Pierce's holiday, so only he knows the answer.

Or maybe Pierce is out to lunch?

That's a**very* l-o-n-g lunch!

aye, , it was. and a good one too. lot's of and

the holiday was just an ordinary holiday. or rasther: it should have been

most of it was very good actually. all of it, in fact, except getting there and back again. flying is okay, but there are better ways to spend time.



shea

Was the sardines?

nope. herrings. just like the japanese we are fond of raw . but very much *un*like the japanese we prefer them with sugar on top

(actually we marinade the raw in spiced vinegar (one of the spices being sugar - usually too much sugar ). some of the are breaded and fried first. some are dipped in various cold sauces after marinating, the most common sauces being a cold cream sauce with curry or a cold sauce with sherry)

hence the need for a lot of to wash it all down with, see?

shea