Monday 16th January 2011
Bonjour my beautiful people (well I think I am actually down to one follower Mrs. D, but I will forge on anyway!).
I was going to post yesterday but I ended up having a drink, well not just one drink, a few drinks but that's not the point, I have learnt at the moment that doing anything web related whilst tippy/slightly drunk/inebriated is never a good idea. Thank god Easyjet's payment part of the website was down last week or else I would have found myself explaining to Mr H why, oh why I had a booked flights to the UK costing a grand sum or £400!
I would imagine I would have wriggled out of it in the end, or just got him inebriated but it was still a bit of a wake up call.....back away from the credit card and put the bottle down.
Anyway enough of that on the off chance that Mummy Grumpus or Mummy H are reading this.....clearly Grumpus and Mr H are well rounded individuals who do not rely on drink to make their lives better and are living a healthy, fantastic life abroad, ahem!
So what's new? I know that you all are just dying to be updated on the globe trotting cosmopolitan lifestyle of me and Mr. H (not!) so much that you can't contain your excitement any longer.
Well we have another visitor which to be honest is playing hell with our social life as two sets of friends wanted to come over in Feb/March but can't as, well being polite as possible we don't know when he is leaving!
As with the two before him, he seems polite enough, he seems to have better sense than the last one and doesn't try and have an in-depth conversation with me at half 7 in the morning (the last one did that and my response was pretty much "what the f*ck?!" and not in a comedy sense, but as in seriously are you talking to me about work at this time.
People that have only known me a few months know that I am not a morning person and my idea of morning is 9am, 7.30am is still the middle of the night, so be warned speak to me at that hour and your on your own, even Mr. H just started walking slowly out of the kitchen shaking his head!
I think he thinks we are alcoholics though, which well hell you can make your own mind up there,but before you judge, its cold over here and god damn expensive to do anything other than buy wine and grapes are one of your five a day so it should keep mummy Grumpus happy to know I am eating some fruit at least!
Anyway on to the title of the blog, which is probably what caused me to run screaming to a wine bottle last night.
We decided to take the new recruit to the lake, because lets face it, other than hurtling down a ski slope, what else can you show the newbies when they first get here, it is the third time we have done the guided tour, but funnily enough we are not bored of it yet.
Anyway off we trotted down to the lake, I walked all the way there no bus/taxi/two or four wheeled vehicles involved.
Once you get to the lake you can walk down the left hand side of it, towards and then past the Kempinski Hotel with the lake to your right, a little further down past the hotel on the right hand side there is a causeway that goes out into the lake with something called the Bains des Paquis.
It is almost like a floating island that looks like there is a place you can grab a bite to eat, a area to sunbath and even an area where you can swim, going out into the actual lake.
Now we have walked past this island nearly every weekend that we have gone down to the lake, but on Sunday I happened to look over and was horrified, absolutely horrified to see people NAKED. That's right NAKED, now for the a while I just thought that all the sunbathers were wearing beige, but then as we moved closer it became clear that quite a few people were wandering round with just towels wrapped round them. Then the horror happened, a random man minding his own business dropped the towel and stark bollock naked climbed down some steps into Lake Geneva, I shit you not!
I have to ask are they fecking mad? a) The whole of fecking downtown Geneva can kinda see them NAKED as they are all walking past the said island full of nutty naked people, but b) its FECKING January and your NAKED!!!!!!!! It is very very cold and to add insult to injury lemsip type cold remedies are over £20 a pack, so you are either MENTAL or just have too much money and don't give a damn if your ill.
I am not a prude and think everybody should do what makes them happy, but NAKED, on an island, surrounded by tourists in the middle of Geneva lake??? WTF??? The worst thing being that the tourist boats go really very close to the island why would you want someone to see you naked as the day you were born when the temperature is below 10 degrees.......its not a good look for any man, lets face it so if your less than averagely endowed your not gonna be on to a winner!
So I am hoping you can all understand why wine was a must last night!!!!
Keep checking for updates as the next one I think will be why you should never do a supermarket shop after going on an unofficial wine tasting tour!
See you on the other side :)
Grumpus x
Keep checking for updates as the next one I think will be why you should never do a supermarket shop after going on an unofficial wine tasting tour!
See you on the other side :)
Grumpus x
