Posts from arthurarnell in thread „The Twenty First Century Club“

  • The Twenty First Century Club

    Hi


    This is my 2000 post.


    I would like to say that I am very proud to belong to what is for the moment an exclusive trio but what soon will become a famous band as more and more members reach this milestone.


    Keep up the good work


    Arthur

  • The Twenty First Century Club

    Hi Stumpy


    last year we went to Cornwall, mid August three out of the seven days it was freezing cold with rain. The swimming pool was indoors. A week after we left torrential rain caused a mudslide at Bocastle a small village near where we were staying, the village was almost destroyed with flooding.


    Holidays in England are very expensive and frankly not worth the money. In England a litre bottle of Bacardi costs £17.oo on the continent it costs 11 Euros (1.41 Euros to the pound). In England 20 cigarettes about £5.00 a packet, in Spain 200 cigarettes costs 29 Euros. Not that we smoke but my son does.


    With Spain you know exactly what you are getting - uninteruppted Sun, Sea and Sangria. As an example our guide told us that it hasn't rained on the Costa del Sol since the second week in March. Although this doesn't bode well for the district and also that they have fifty golf courses to continually water. If you are in an out of the country in a fortnight, its not to bad.


    You also get to go to some of the exotic places including Granada where we saw the Alhambra Palace the home of the Moorish Kings, and some of the beautiful Cathedrals around the area.



    Regards


    Arthur

  • The Twenty First Century Club

    Hi Stumpy


    No we saw it on television, and some people got injured in the running of the bulls, I agree with you about their customs but it's not a bad country. We also took in day trips to Gibralter, which as it is a British colony was obviously like going home and during a tour of the rock we looked at some of the 34 miles of tunnels hewn out of the rock during the Second World War by the British sappers and Canadians. During the height of the war when Hitler was threatening to invade Gibralter the tunnels housed 16,000 soldiers. One interesting point to Americans is that the rock has only had one foreign governor in its history and that was General Eisenhower when he was planning operation Torch the invasion of North Aftrica.


    The rock has Barbary apes running free at the top and its a tradition that if the apes leave the rock then the British will also leave. During the war Churchill noticed that the number of apes was declining slightly and ordered another thirty to be put on. Nowadays there are about two hundred and they are thriving.


    And speaking of North Africa it is only fourteen kilometers from the Spanish Border and we spent a day in Tangiers walking round the famous Casbah, Charles Boyer wasn't there but it was fascinating all the same.





    Regards


    Arthur