Yesterday, I was on a kind of endorphin high from booking so many cheap flights to sweet destinations. Once I get my wheels spinning, it's best just to let me run my course until I've planned every detail from here to ten years from here.
I booked flights for Aly and me to Dublin, for Aly, Erin and me to Madrid, me to Lisbon. I looked at places for Aly and I to go while she's here in Scotland. From our tour of the Glen Grant distillery (that Aly was personally invited to come check out-- more on that later) to the seat of the Campbell Clan (Aly's definitely got to check out her ancestral home on her first trip!) we'll be making a big counter-clockwise loop around Northern Scotland.
While I was planning the Lisbon leg of the trip (it's like 20 Euros to get to Lisbon, seriously.) Kris and I discovered that there were no flights on Fridays, so we'd have to stay an extra day. Which got us thinking about all the terrible problems you might have in a place like Lisbon-- a total unsung hero, it seems, of the amazing trip lineup.
It went a little something like this:
it would not suck if we HAD to stay in portugal for another gd day. OH crap
stuck in beautiful seaside paradise
guess i'll stay! TOO SUNNY CAN'T SEE WAY TO AIRPORT MUST STAY #problemspeoplehaveinlisbon
CAN'T UNDERSTAND PORTUGUESE ACCIDENTALLY USED SPF 23 INSTEAD OF 15 #problemspeople
WAVES TOO SMALL FOR SURFING, SNORKEL INSTEAD #problemspeople
MAKE ACCIDENTAL SLIP AND USE SPANISH, AWKWARDNESS LEADS TO INVITE TO SECRET STREET PARTY#problemspeople
(incidentally, apparently this "street party" phenomenon is a real thing. Street parties! )
And of course, we'll listen to some Walkmen. When we're "stranded." On the beach. It's Friday. If I were you, I'd just go ahead and plan a trip somewhere. Even if it's only an imaginary trip.
I think you meant to post Orange Sunday instead, gr8 kthx: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmBpQPySF-A
ReplyDeleteTHE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD GETS BEEEEEEETTER ALL AROOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUND ME....
POINT AT PORTUGUESE WORD ON MENU, PLATE OF CURED MEATS AND CHEESE SHOWS UP #problemspeoplehaveinlisbon
ReplyDeleteMAP UPSIDE-DOWN, WANDER QUAINT 16TH CENTURY BACK STREETS #problemspeoplehaveinlisbon
RIDE TRAM UP STEEP STREET, LISTEN TO GRETCHEN COMPARE IT TO SF #problemspeoplehaveinlisbon
SUNBURN #problemspeoplehaveinlisbon
Ferguson, you can't be fraternising with Campbells and friends with a Macdonald -- don't you know about Glencoe? We Macdonalds like to hold on to our grudges.
ReplyDeleteI do know about Glencoe. But sadly, Aly is my bestie and she's a Campbell :( I can't just ditch her! Plus, she's Canadian and that, I feel, exempts one from ill-will around the world. They're like the new Switzerland.
ReplyDeleteI hope you two will still be able to be friends. She's lovely.
Wow, all caps in this font really is bad. I'll have to deal with this.
Ok, the Campbell has entered the room. I, too, know the history behind the Campbell / MacDonald fued. I promise... I had nothing to do with it! ;) Can't wait to get to the motherland.
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