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Holiday plans - paging the FOAK
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Well Sri Lanka's gone onto the back burner, for a variety of reasons.
What's Cuba like? Anyone been?
I have this image of funky music and good, rum-based booze.
What's the truth?
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And why would that be necessarily so bad? Cuba has better health and
education records than any other Latin American country. Or would you
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Well, I'm glad you got it, but on a more serious note; For any repressed
society, is it better to take a moral/political stance from a distance,
or visit and put a few bob in the hands of the local people? Are the two
mutually exclusive?
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Yes, that's the question I wanted an answer to.
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rather it went back to being a playground of rich americans, and the
people employees of US Agribusiness?
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Kinell it's a bit of a 50/50 call, this. As it stands, I'm tempted to
go.
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If it helps, I think Cuba in principle is a wonderful place and have a
trip there pencilled in for next year when I should have a bit of spare
wonga.
Venezuela's on the same list, for similar reasons.
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Try Colombia. I really rather like it here.
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Translation: This is the Medellin Cartel. We have kidnapped your
gringo journalist for ransom, and require more European tourists so we
can maximise this revenue stream.
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How you know this is cartel? And this is not tourist we have taken. We
do not know what to do with. He has already tried to sell our leader
some broken old motorcycle.
We have changed plan. Send money or we release.
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Dear Cartel
Your captive owes me the money for a two-night stay in a Dieppe hotel.
Send me the little finger from his right hand and we'll call it quits.
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Dear You,
He already owes us hundreds of thousands of pesos for antique Yamaha he
has bought from us. However, we have made him promise to send you a
cheque (and also one to the Big Man Known As WUN) on his return to your
shores.
We are holding one of his kidneys as ransom until he pays you.
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Dear Cartel
I really meant it about the little finger, but if you're going to
haggle, make it the left bollock as well.
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You don't want his bollocks, they're full of yellow fever.
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Dear You,
It would take a braver man than even our Pedro to look inside the Older
One's underpants.
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Dear Cartel
Despite the old man's fiscal tendencies, I've seen a roundhead before
and I'm not afraid of cobwebs.
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Lotsa luv
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