For the first bit
A mate of mine is a Radiographer at Broad Green, Liverpool.

He's seen junkies come in who have launched themselves off 5 storey buildings with only minor damage, because they've been convinced they were flying until they hit the ground, so totally relaxed.

I've spent very little time in France (like, can be counted in less than 50 hours.) I just dislike the concept.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 13 Jan 2012, 21:43, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Spent nearly a year living in France.
Despite the auld alliance I must say it is spoiled by the French.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Fri 13 Jan 2012, 21:48, Reply)

I like the French. When I am in France I get treated much better when I tell them I am Scottish.
Ditto with the Dutch.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 13 Jan 2012, 21:50, Reply)

Absolutely true. That card has got me out of more than a couple of motorbike speeding tickets.
As for the Dutch? Meh!
Why?
Roadsigns, you sub-sea-level cunts.
Or rather motorway roadsigns.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Fri 13 Jan 2012, 22:04, Reply)

It's a strange thing
But I've been to loads of nowhere places in the US and hardly been to Europe at all.

Worked in Switzerland and Belgium for a few weeks - that's about it.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 13 Jan 2012, 22:04, Reply)

Where in Switz were you?
I know Genève pretty well, Lausanne and Montreux fairly well, spent some time in Vallorbe, had a cracking romance in Bern and go horribly lost in the fog around Fribourg...
I love Switzerland, simply love the place.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Fri 13 Jan 2012, 22:12, Reply)

Oh and Basel too. Mustn't forget Basel.
Tinguely (sp?) museum is worth a visit.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Fri 13 Jan 2012, 22:13, Reply)

Worked in Berne for four weeks in 1997
I was single at the time and I stayed there at the weekends and got a railpass - travelled all over the place on Saturdays and Sundays.

Smashing place - I'd go back.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 13 Jan 2012, 22:15, Reply)

Well I knew a lass who lived in Bern, worked at the Incestital.
Always found that amusing but was never fully able to explain why.
Aaah, Colombian women ;)
And there was a Russian lass (Anna) too, she lived/lives in Genève, but that never came to much apart from the weekend I flew out there for the Pixies gig that time.
Oh golly, melancholy feelings!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Fri 13 Jan 2012, 22:21, Reply)