I almost forgot it was the last Sunday of the month! This is just a quick blog I've pulled out of nowhere.
My Miracle Flower,
I got chatting to one of the guys from one of my photography classes a few weeks ago when we all went out for dinner. He’s a really interesting man with loads of stories about places he’s been over the years, I guess he travels a lot with work.
He spoke about trips to New York, watching baseball games in the rain and drinking in the old under ground bars like in the film the Great Gatsby. There was also a story about him getting in
trouble for reading his paper in the hotel bar because BB King was about to
perform and how he realised near the end of the show that he was the only white
guy in the room. He got up and
said in his Welsh accent, well that was bloody brilliant that. Best show I’ve ever been too! Then this old guy said, "you think that
was good, I could take you somewhere better". So, the guy left the hotel with this man, his wife and two
grown up daughters and just got in their car to be taken to somewhere that was
better than BB King. I was sitting
beside one of the guys from my class last year and I think we were like two
little sponges sucking up all these tales of adventure. We said, did you not worry about
getting into some random persons car that you didn’t know. He said I’m hardly gonna get murdered
by a sixty year old man that’s out with his wife and two grow-up daughters for the evening. He said it was the best night out he'd ever had, yes better than BB King. He was out with that family until 3am and the old man dropped him back off at his hotel as he said he would.
It got me thinking about travelling. I’ve not really been to any “wonders of
the world” type holidays but after that chance meeting with the man from
Wales. I think this is something I
need to start doing and soon! The
Spanish holidays have been done so many times and I’m not knocking them, but
wouldn’t it be nice to really travel.
To go to places and be amazed at how different they are to where you
stay. I’d love go back to Paris,
it’s been a long time since I was there and I would love to take you to New York when you're a bit older.
If I can’t go myself, Daisy I hope you will travel to all
these interesting places and think of me and the man from Wales.
Some old photos from 2011
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