Travel

[rebness]

Well, I'm off to Alsace next week for a sabbatical, by which I mean lovely mountains and Colmar and Mulhouse and Strasbourg and general Alsatian excellence. I should be saving now. I shouldn't contemplate other trips abroad until afterwards, right?

£130.

£130 for six nights in Rome, with regional flights, transfers and funky accommodation close to Vatican City. In May. Of course, jaffacakequeen and I booked. OMFG ROMA!

Comments

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

... seriously? Hmm. Possibly a bad choice of slogan there, Tourism Australia. But still, how can anyone really be offended at "bloody" these days? This seems like a case of "picking and choosing" what to take or leave from our culture. I mean, oh, sure, they like Steve Irwin because he works with cute and weird animals and says "crikey", but they can't handle a real ocker phrase. Pommie bastards*.


*with the exception of Becky, and all other UK residents who read this. Unless you're uptight whinging Poms.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Bloody weird Aussies. :p

[pandorasblog]

Oh yeah, they had something about this on our local radio. Considering some of the lewd stuff that turns up on the likes of BBC Radio 1 on a fairly regular basis, I can't imagine why they think delicate British people will keel over at the word "bloody". *shrugs*