I am at a try hard beach in the north of spain. I have seen some REAL beautiful people. Stunning. But I feel sorry for the try hards that want to be like the BP?s but look totally pathetic. Looks like a good town to party if you are young and single though.
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31.07.1917
Bought a Seamus Heaney book when I was back in London. Read a poem about an Irish soldier who died on the 31/7 in WWI. After I had read it I realised that that was the current date! I thought it was pretty special anyway…. Sevilla rocks, love the old Moorish stuff and the cathedral is massive.
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Big city blues
Have arrived in the first really big city since leaving the UK a month ago. Walking through the streets we see a poor man with a terrible facial disfigurment. Think ‘Elephant Man’ and make it a lot worse…. I was too freaked to even look at the poor fella, let alone go up to him and give him the cash he was begging for. It bummed us out. Later in the day we saw a tourist (who I guess was a doctor) talking to him to see if there was anything he could do to help. It was touching.
We get back to the van to find that it has been broken into and some of our stuff has been pinched, including all my CD’s. DOH!
Needless to say, we preferred Porto to Lisboa.
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Bullrun
Love this country! The spanish love to party. While I’m not too shook on bull-fighting, the San Fermin festival at Pamplona is pretty cool. Had a go running with the bulls, and watched a televised bull fight. It was gory as hell and I really felt sorry for the bull. While all the english speakers condemned the sport, someone pointed out to me that in UK/Aus/NZ/US we treat animals better than we treat our parents. The spanish are family oriented and don’t pack the olds off to a home when they become a hassle….
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From The Hagakure
There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.
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a lama speaks
my friends and I asked the dalai lama around for a cup of tea when he was in New Zealand, alas, he couldn’t make it….
“Although you may have experienced many negative events in the past, with the development of patience and tolerance it is possible to let go of your sense of anger and resentment. If you analyze the situation, you’ll realize that the past is the past, so there is no use in continuing to feel anger and hatred, which do not change the situation but just cause a disturbance within your mind and cause your continued unhappiness. Of course, you may still remember the events. Forgetting and forgiving are two different things. There’s nothing wrong with simply remembering those negative events: if you have a sharp mind, you’ll always remember, he laughed. “I think the Buddha remembered everything. But with the development of patience and tolerance, it’s possible to let go of the negative feelings associated with the events.”
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was at a pub called the churchill last night…
Lady Astor: “Winston, if I were your wife I’d put poison in your coffee.”
Winston: “Nancy, if I were your husband I’d drink it.” -
blade runner
watched blade runner (for the second time I think), this time thinking about the question “is Harrison Ford a replicant?”. I was glad I did because the penny dropped at the end and a great movie got a whole lot better.
How did ridley go from blade runner and alien to gladiator? it seems incredible to me that those movies were directed by the same guy.
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dvd madness
finally bought a dvd for my laptop. The Big Lebowski gets first screening followed by American Beauty. Both those movies kick some serious arse. Tash watched Withnail and I and Deliverence too. They apparently also kick arse.
Oh yeah, now have just over 300MB of ram on board. heh heh yeh yeh