What would you take of 10 items, music or books?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I loved NOT listening to music for a month, coming back my ears were fresh and clean .............what's the point of self isolating oneself from the sonic environment ? being on a beach NOT hearing the sea but La Mer (for example) seems so wrong to me , even though Debussy was a great composer....

I refer the highly esteemed Tamtam Tamtam, Esq to my #23.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Mario

All we can afford, oh risen one! Self-catering: a week at the end of May, and a fortnight in August. My days of travelling abroad are back in the days of a full-time salary.

[Petrushka]

Many years ago I bumped into my former school music teacher at our local railway station. He was carrying one of those little shoulder bags and I asked him. thinking he would be on a local shopping trip or meeting friends, whither he was bound. "Rome!" came the reply. I asked him about his luggage and he held up the shoulder bag: "It's in here!" He explained that wherever he went he took two of each item of clothing ie, shirt, underwear and socks on a wear one, wash one basis and bought everything else at his destination and dumped it before returning.

A few years later, I bumped into him again, this time on the train on the way back home. Asked him where he'd been. "Kenya!" he replied. And there was the shoulder bag again.

[Auferstehen2]

All we can afford, oh risen one! Self-catering: a week at the end of May, and a fortnight in August. My days of travelling abroad are back in the days of a full-time salary.

Glad to hear that fhg! Should you ever decide to visit this little island of ours, our world-famous Maltese hospitality will surely come to the fore!

Best wishes,

Mario

[MrGongGong]

All we can afford, oh risen one! Self-catering: a week at the end of May, and a fortnight in August. My days of travelling abroad are back in the days of a full-time salary.

We found that a month camping in France costs less that a week in a grotty rented place in the UK including the cost of getting there and travel etc
no contest IMV

[amateur51]

Glad to hear that fhg! Should you ever decide to visit this little island of ours, our world-famous Maltese hospitality will surely come to the fore!

Best wishes,

Mario

But don't bother taking your bird book cos the locals blast them out of the sky in the name of sport (several ornithologist friends inform me).

Apols in advance to Mario if I/they have this wrong

[Serial_Apologist]

I think French Frank's idea of taking a guide to local flora and fauna is an excellent one. I might even be motivated to check up on the local flora and fauna 'round here, when I return! I've always been "impressed" by those who go on hols knowing everything there is to know about the places they visit, and yet know next to nothing about their own manors!

The other thing I would take, just in case the holiday turned out to be boring, would be a decent recording and full score of Schoenberg's "Moses und Aron", to work out how the Master deals with his tone rows!

S-A

[Auferstehen2]

But don't bother taking your bird book cos the locals blast them out of the sky in the name of sport (several ornithologist friends inform me).

Apols in advance to Mario if I/they have this wrong

As God is my witness, this is the last time I shall ever again make reference to my country on these messageboards ever again.

[amateur51]

As God is my witness, this is the last time I shall ever again make reference to my country on these messageboards ever again.

Aw come on, Mario don't take on so

[Serial_Apologist]

Aw come on, Mario don't take on so

Shh - you'll only encourage him...

[amateur51]

While we're on the subject of shooting small birds ... Mr Lewis Black gives it large

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6ene75RM3w

[MrGongGong]

As God is my witness, this is the last time I shall ever again make reference to my country on these messageboards ever again.

god is dead , didn't they tell you ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A request from my partner, sals:

Could the rules be changed so that I'm only allowed to bring back a maximum of 10 books/CDs from a holiday!

[cloughie]

A request from my partner, sals:

Could the rules be changed so that I'm only allowed to bring back a maximum of 10 books/CDs from a holiday!

Isn't that an unreasonable demand? From your partner, not of saly.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Isn't that an unreasonable demand? From your partner, not of saly.

Well, I think so. But then I wasn't the one who had to catch the train back from our holidays beacause there wasn't room for anyone else in the car.


I offered; I offered ... !!!