Having second thoughts already
Tomorrow I’ll be off on the fourth booze cruise trip to France with my work pals. Our main objective? To raid the Calais hypermarkets of booze, bring booze back to the UK and drink or sell most of it for something called MONIES. Well that’s what typically happens, but to be honest this is a great chance to grab some Xmas gifts too, which is why I am going. I’ve still got bloody booze left over from our last cruise in March this year!
This cruise isn’t organised by me this time so I’m wondering how things will work out. I keep having second thoughts because I really don’t need to go - and whenever we do go, the weather is ALWAYS awful. Last time we went there, we ended up lost, then came the rain and hailstones and then we stumbled into the French version of The Burbs! Given that I have spent a huge amount of cash recently on clothes and gadgets I have to ask myself is there any point in going? I’m taking my new rather expensive Fuji 6500 camera with me, I’m not sure why because the weather will be poor as mentioned.
Ah well. So Deena and I, along with brat Ayesha leave on a coach tomorrow at 07:00 bound for Dover. We then cross the channel in a P&O ferry. The girls will no doubt be sick throughout the entire journey so I will be free to roam Duty Free for goods. We then hit a couple of supermarkets for booze, then a hypermarket for food, then hit Boulogne and a few nearby towns for a few hours before heading home. I don’t want to go, I want to play Team Fortress 2 dammit!
Lol at the TF2 comment. You’re as bad as me
I was considering what to do this weekend and thought ‘Shall I go visit a friend? Hmm nah I want to stay in and play Eternal Sonata and Condemned’.
There’s game addicts for you
So we’re back, a lot earlier than expected for one reason - way too many people! The coach was full to capacity so we had a limit on how much each individual could carry - boo!
The trip to Dover was largely dull and boring as mostly everyone was asleep on the coach or trying to. Bugger me that coach was uncomfortable as there was sod all leg room! Don’t you just hate that?!
Ayesha was bored as we left the Calais port so went and irritating the driver by teasing him for going round the roundabout the wrong way and not hitting the 110mph speed limit, which I think was in kph!
Deena was also bored and started picking out odd structures as we drove to our first hypermarket. We also saw the an EastEnders Studio! It turns out to be THIS. I was busy reading On The Edge: My Story by Richard Hammond - a bloody good read might I add.
We quickly reached the hypermarket only to find it besieged with shoppers. Not only that, it had less shopping isles than before - about two less than our previous trip. I didn’t buy much though, as my only intentions were to buy a ton of chocs later on the ferry trip back - for my little brat cousins up north in Leicester. Although - there was a lady giving out lotsa samples of some French BEER! Which everyone took advantage and got slightly tipsy! St.Moets or something it was called…
We then headed off to a supermarket. Now these things are awesome, they make Tesco’s look like a corner shop. Obviously they have everything you could imagine but they have a lot more variety, and the food oh the food! Fruit and Veg looks so good that you could eat it right there, as the staff replace the food every hour or so. Just for presentation purposes. Then comes the Cheese section, with free samples for every cheese. It’s amazing and I was in heaven.
I then spotted Deena shopping in a few places I shouldn’t so I quickly scarpered and went off to find Ayesha in the Electronics section…of course she had no interest in TV’s and HiFi’s…there was a hot looking salesman she had her eyes on. I watched her from afar sniggering helplessly as she tried to get his attention by pretending to look at the rear of a few big screen tv’s rofl. I was praying for something to happen and it did - another assistant came to her aid instead hahahaha!
It’s hard to enjoy yourself when you’re limited to what you can take back on the coach though. I bought a 12 pack of Kronenburg 1664 to consume on the coach with some mates, the girls brought some clothes and other weird things! To tell the truth I was bored shitless. Ya see, the trip is always the same old thing, the same old routine always. The trip needs to be more varied so I might ask to organise the next one to introduce more varied places we can goto afterwards…
Because ‘afterwards’ equals Boulogne. Now this is a lovely town and one of the largest fishing ports in Europe but a lot of the town seems to be suffering an economic problem. A lot of shops were bordered up and closed in certain parts of the town. Even the fisherman’s district seemed empty of fishermen even though there were a lot of fishing vessels. You can only come here so many times and see the same things before being all too familiar with it all, and this was one of those times. We shopped for a few hours before heading back to the coach to chill out there. Much to my amazement everyone else had done the same - not a good sign that.
On the way back there was a ton of rather embarrassing karaoke singing, followed by the DVD of War of The Worlds! Finally something that could get my attention while me and my mates tried to finish off my 12 pack of beer. It wasn’t a bad trip nor was it a particularly exciting one. I’m just glad it’s out of the way!
lol Ayesha texted me at 9am saying that she seriously has to learn the French language now
lol
awww bleshhhhh!! welll u still manage to get me chocolateeeeeeee lolllllll:D:D luv yaaa