SO ELECTION DAY IN GREECE AND MY LAST FULL DAY, AS YOU CAN GUESS I AM GOING TO MAKE THE MOST OF IT!
THANKS ONCE AGAIN FOR ALL THE COMMENTS.

SO THE BEAT GOES ON

DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED THERE I THINK THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ANOTHER PICTURE THERE?
GUESS WHERE I STILL AM? GUESS WHO'S STILL HAVING FUN AND GUESS WHO IS STILL GIVING THE SAME LAME EXCUSE FOR NOT VISITING YOUR SITES.
MORE TOMORROW..........

ATHENIAN GLORY

Well I guess everyone knows I am in Athens now and so without further ado having found an internet cafe that takes my stick if you'll pardon the expression here are some first pictures, and it being Friday it's an Athenian Take Five Friday on the photoblog ok?

Thanks to almost everyone for comments and support you know I couldn't do it without you!
Thought you'd prefer to see the pics than have me answering comments and come over to yours but non of your help and encouragement will go unforgotten!!

Hopefully more tomorrow, it's a big and beautiful place!

If life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life, why don't we all get wasted and have the time of our lives?

ATHENS!!!

Well here I am in Athens and trying to master Google.gr.

Wow so far everything is just as I expected right down to the lousy internet connections which of course I was warned about.

Oh of course I'm taking pictures and of course I will post them when I can but until then this from an internet cafe will just have to do.

If only to move on from 9-11 because however terrible it was we must!

Thanks for all the comments on that post. I remember exactly where I was and if I had been at home there would have been hundreds of people down by thre river looking towards New York!

Meanwhile some archive pictures from the photoblog until I see you again!!

9-11

IF THIS IS MONDAY THEN I MUST BE HOME!!

Well today for me is neither one thing or another! Just recovering from Paris and away again tomorrow to Europe's most forgotten capital! ATHENS, GREECE. Wow I can't wait. Ok, I haven't visited everyone since I've been back from Paris and Disney but I hope that by later on today everybody who commented has received their web album from me!
I do intend posting from Greece but I do also understand that sometimes internet connections are very slow or non existent so you might have to do be very patient.
Oh because I do become a comment whore while I'm away I'll probably do another web album of Athens for peeps that comment on any posts from Athens Ok?
Yes I know it's bribery but it's nice to know that people care enough from the other side of the world to comment when you are away. Makes taking the lap top worth while!!

Thanks to everyone who took a guess at how many pics of Captain Jack aka as my son Matt I took in Paris and the winner of the web album is.......



AUTUMN STORM....497 is my new guess, she said and 456 was the actual amount!!
Web album being prepared as you read this!


Meanwhile have a read of these Laws of the Universe, they should take away some of those Monday blues!!

Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.
Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.
Law of the Telephone: When you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal.
Law of the Alibi: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tyre, the very next morning you will have a flat tyre.
Variation Law: If you change checkout lines or traffic lanes, the one you were in will start to move faster than the one you are in now.
Bath Theorem: When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings.
Law of Lines: When you walk IN the grocery store, there's never anyone in the checkout line.
Inverse Hair Dryer Law: You're sure you hear the phone ringing in the background, until you turn the hair dryer off.
Law of Close Encounters: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.
Law of the Result: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will.
Law of Bio mechanics: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.
Theater Law: At any event, the people whose seats are farthest from the aisle arrive last.
Law of Beverage: As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot tea, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the cup is cold.
Murphy's Law of Lockers: If there are only two people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.
Law of Natural Attraction: If you and your date are the only two on a five-mile stretch of beach, the family of five will set up right next to you.
Law of Dirty Rugs/Carpets: The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich landing face down on a floor covering are directly correlated to the newness and cost of the carpet/rug.
Law of Location: No matter where you go, there you are.
Law of Logical Argument: Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.
Oliver's Law: A closed mouth gathers no feet.
Law of the Last Word: "Hey, watch this!"

JUST PARIS THAT'S ALL

THE TRIP IN TO PARIS YESTERDAY WAS A BIT FORE SHORTENED TO BE HONEST TO DO WITH 'CAPTAIN JACK' GOING ON A STAG NIGHT, FRIDAY NIGHT. OH I COULD HAVE GONE AS AN IRISH COWBOY, THE THEME, BUT IT WAS AT AND I DON'T DO COUNTRY AND WESTERN FOR ANYBODY I FOLLOWED UP ON THE MOBILE NUMBER I HAD!! SAY NO MORE!!



NOW BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY 'JACK' IS NOT USED TO GETTING BUSES, HE ENJOYED THE EXPERIENCE SO MUCH HE STAYED ON IT WAY PAST THE HOTEL WHERE HE WAS MEETING ME!! DID YOU NOT SEE THE SIGN? IT'S BIG ENOUGH!


INCIDENTALLY THE REASON HE WAS COMING TO MEET ME WAS TO DO WITH NEXT WEEKS TRIP TO ATHENS SO MAYBE MORE ABOUT THAT LATER IN THE WEEK!





BUT WE MADE IT IN TIME TO SIT BY THE RIVER AND CHILL OUT FOR A BIT AND TOOK IN THE SITES!

SORRY I KNOW WE ARE ON THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT BUT IF I DON'T GET A PICTURE OF THE EIFFEL TOWER WHILE I'M HERE NO ONE WILL EVER BELIEVE THAT I WAS REALLY HERE AND AUTUMN STORM WILL NEVER SPEAK TO ME AGAIN!!

NO IT'S AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE, ISN'T IT!

OK THAT'S IT FOR THE MOMENT! DISNEY AND PARIS BEHIND ME!

I TRAVEL TUESDAY TO ATHENS AND AGAIN I GUESS WE MIGHT HAVE TO PUT UP WITH LOUSY INTERNET CONNECTIONS AND SO ON BUT LAPPY NEEDS ITS AIRMILES SO OF COURSE ITS COMING WITH ME!!

MORE PICTURES OF PARIS AND DISNEY ON THE PHOTOBLOG TODAY AND TOMORROW OK?

PARIS TODAY AND NOW HOME..........

Paris pictures tomorrow guys, I'm tired and E mailing this post without going to anybody's site or answering any comments, or E mails! Just to say yes the T has arrived, thank you Autumn Storm, I'll be over tomorrow to thank you at yours! 

I can't thank everybody enough for all the comments, although on my own I have never felt alone. I will get round to you all in time even though I'm away again on Tuesday first thing.

 

Everyone who commented on the posts will receive a FREE web album of my trip.

If I don't have an E mail addy for you don't worry it will turn up in your comments box, when you least expect it!

 

For those of you who like the technical lunacy, while I was away, because I do and because I can I took very nearly 1900 pictures!! That is after the deletions! I told you it was lunacy!!

But how many do you think I took of my son Matt as Captain Jack Sparrow?

Just a clue here I did delete nearly 100 because they didn't show some of his face!!

A special Jack Sparrow web album for the person that gets closest!

 

I will of course be attempting to post while on my next trip which in case you've just been looking at the pictures is to ATHENS!!! WOOOOOOO!! Can't wait and there's a number of reasons for that but the main one is that I haven't been before and I am soooo looking forward to it!!! 

 

 

MORE DISNEY!

Saturday morning.
Well that's it really, certainly for Disney for the moment! Paris itself today and back to the UK this evening. Loads to do Sunday and Monday and first thing Tuesday off again, this time to somewhere I've not been before! Woo! Europe's most forgotten capital , Athens!!
But that's next week, this is now.
I want to thank everybody who has commented while I've been away it makes it so worthwhile taking your lap top with you and fighting networks for good internet connections and all the horrors of travelling and trying to communicate at the same time!
Ok Mickeys ears arguably one of the most globally recognised icons in the world, even the bubbles used in the parade are shaped that way!!
So some pics that sum up what Disney is all about!

Friday in the park for me was the highlight of the week. By now everybody knows against all Disney rules, I have to say, that my son Matt works there, they know some of the characters he plays and he has been pictured as such.

Once he knew I was coming over he changed his duties around so that he could play Captain Jack Sparrow. Now I know we've posted about this before and you've even seen pictures of him as Captain Jack but as a proud dad and photographer I have never seen him play him or taken any pictures myself of him!

I took an almost obscene ammount of pictures of him 4 of which are included here, the other was taken by Ross, ACC for the day (chaperone really - it means something in French!) who at the start of the day was going round looking for "Keith" The reference was of course to Keith Richards who appeared as Captain Jack's father in the Pirates of the Caribbean film!