| *The Time of my Life....* |
| Crete 2004. Lett mate, wat can i say! its been a while since we got back but the last summer will stay with me forever! tears tantrums and bad ass hoes!! not forgetting the incident when you threw a shampoo bottle at my head in a mad rage and when we dressed up fanny to look like james bond....comedy only you and myself can appreciate! JUNE 2004 embarking upon a trip which could have been a two week holiday or a ten week struggle, it seemed pretty obvious that i was goin for the relaxing hol! all i wanted was a bit of ouzo, some sun and a darn break from the shit hole of school! jay hawks were playing on the radio and we'd named the boom box (lettie insisted on taking it)...Soph! arriving at HOTEL 1 aka 'no room to swing a street cat', we could tell it wasnt gonna b ur average break away. after checking out the place we'd booked for 10 weeks we stole back my passport and escaped out of the window. sounds easy enough, but with Lettie bringing everything but the kitchen sink, catching her 30kg suitcase prooved a struggle...and then running down the street in the 35'C heat, trying to look unsuspicious was even harder. we jumped into a cab and looked at eachother.....where the hell we're we gonna go? there was only one place really...PLATANIAS! just to explain, thas where we had gone the year before with the real sophie, not the boom box, and had the best two week holiday EVA! its a 20 minute trip from where our other hotel was, a safe enough distance no to be recognised again. i have never been so excited in my life as when we were driving through platanias village...remembering all the same places, buildings and....SPLENDID! what a place! it happens to be where our bar dancing careers began....lol! |
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| so, me n lett arrived at our destinantion...problem- where to stay??! to be honest i didnt care very much, i was hot and tired n couldnt b arsed to lugg around our err...luggage. so wat did we do? we treked from hotel to hotel to hotel to hotel with no luck :( all were either full or took all of our money. big gay. luckilly for me lett had some contacts from the year before (no not that sort...!) so we gave manolis a ring! TA DA he came up trumps for a cheap place to crash for a few days....until we found something stable! and it was in the village. so suitcases, boom boxes and all we're ferried to this place. As we came closer i began to get a sick feeling in the bottom of my stomach....'surely not that one Lett?' and so we had arrived.....HOTEL 2 aka SHIT HOLE THE FIRST. what joy, one bed and a toilet that didnt flush. fair enough there was enough room to swing a small cat....but that was about all. For my next task i went to find my self a bed. i settled for a 5 Euro lilo...lovely. As it goes that place served us well, we managed to find jobs and see our old friends all in the same night! one prob...there were two actually...the whole mike/alex scenario! we found ourselves at the old haunt....splendid. although its been jazzed up, its the same old music and the same old people, which is why i loved it. me n lett arrived, it felt strange being back there, but i was so excited, i knew alex was gonna b turning up soon and i hadnt seen him for almost a year. me n Lett ordered in the tequilas, free from Jimmy, the boss! i was slightly tipsy n feeling like i wanted to explode with excitement when i spotted alex wading through the crowd of people. Woah, it suddenly hit me that i was standing in the same place id been the year before watching the same cute person walking towards me, i was like 'Lettie Lettie Lettie!!' he gave me the biggest hug ever and it just felt right to be back there. thats when my mind changed...we had already got jobs in a bar called eclipse, over the road from Splendid, which we didnt think we would do so soon....i was now in it for the 10 weeks!!! but it was only the beginning... |
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