Viva Las VegasI have been in that Las Vegas, nice place, shame about the food, for me anyway. Had a nice grilled vege sub from Quizno's on the way home, but apart from that it's not the best place for a vegan. Breakfast was fried potato and spicy tomato sauce, mor... AlcudiaOff to Majorca in the morning, for a week, staying at Bahia Alcudia... playing pool, by the pool, and drinking cheap booze here we come...Bahia De Alcudia"Guten Tag" as they say in Majorca... weather is fine, though we had one day of rain, food is shockingly bad, Clare got food poisoning one day. Not from the hotel though, we've not eaten much here. The guests seem to be about half English and half Ge... Thieving bastardsLook out if you're coming to Majorca, the place is crawling with thieves. Actually no it's not, but we've encountered a couple of criminal signs... saw a couple of kids trying it on by the pool of our hotel, ripping off tourist handbags, and noticed ... Holiday readingWhile I was away I read Matthew's Prize: Being the Tale of a Whitby Orphan Boy's Longing to Navigate the Broad Seas though I didn't know the title was so long at the time... it's about PIRATES, and it's quite good, if a bit of a blokey version of a m... Oasis @ Portsmouth Wedgewood RoomsI was there at The Wedge, ace gig, and I really do remember this one, unlike the Nirvana @ Birmingham Hummingbird one I wrote up the other day...Found this bit of text from an NME interview, written by Simon Williams, quoting the band talking about t... A public holiday to celebrate us winning the world cup?come on Tessa, let's have it..."We will look at all the appropriate ways of marking this... but you can be absolutely sure that the team will be honoured in the way that everybody in England wants to see them honoured," she said. ... Extra holidayNice, just found I have 3 more days holiday than I thought, so having Christmas eve and New Years Eve off, and carrying a little over for next year... I'm robbing myself a bit, as if I worked those days they'd only be halves, ah well...This holiday f... Post holiday blues. And redsMan alive it is hot today. Very disappointed to get back to the UK yesterday and find it almost as hot here as it was in Hersonnisos, but pleased to find that it's not been this nice all week... Work email account has retrieved 7000 so far and still... What I done on my holidaysWell, that was the holiday then. A fantastic 168 hour long boozy lunch, we didn't do much more than get up for a big breakfast, sit snacking and drinking by the pool while waiting for our big boozy lunch, then eat and drink until it was time for a bi... Bank holiday WEEKENDER!Got my first network alert popup today, as I left the wlan bit turned on on the Pocket PC... 243 moving too fast to investigate, though the network name was the full street address so it won't be hard to find again...Popped in to Chambers beer fest F... Bank holiday WEEKENDER!Stop panicking everyone, I'm back, reporting on updates of the weekend... Quite literally THREE PEOPLE said on the phone that they thought something was up / I'd gone away somewhere because the site wasn't updated over the weekend. Sorry! How will yo... A good start to the holidayKnew there was going to be something up when the driver of the train told us he had to reboot before he could let us on, and same as before, it meant the train was going out of service and I was an hour and a half late for work. Made a nice change to... MontereyJust setting up a place holder here where I will post the next part of my holiday honeymoon writeup... on leaving San Francisco we went to Monterey, before heading to Santa Barbara and Los Angeles.First we had to get out of San Francisco, which meant... Mysterious young entrepreneur secures local supportHmm got emailed this today and thought "I recognise that chap", he used to work at our place. Read the whole press release though, have you any idea what the business is? The accompanying pictures show our Dan stood next to a painted lady (literally,... Saw NO-ONE while on holidayI thought it was THE LAW that you saw famous people at airports? I think I saw someone from wifeswap at LAX, but can't be sure, pretty feeble... We spent some time in a bar in LA that I found out on getting home is Morrissey's favourite... but no sig... PopEx Coo!Right, I am off on holiday, (semi) trained pigeons will be running the site from now on, so please behave. No that's not a picture of me, it's one of the blokes from DOVES - Doves / Pigeons, do you see? Do you?Running OrderI was going to put up a nice page of running times for all the stages for Reading and Leeds festivals... but it's far too hot. So I'm going to the pub.Have a GRATE time if you're going, maybe see you there, save a space down the front for me.... Reading for meBeing a lightweight this year (and NOT AT ALL because I couldn't get a ticket for the whole show, oh no), I only caught the first day of Reading festival this year, but here are my highlights...The Datsuns doing a set for the Jo Whiley show in the ba... Folkestone - seventh best holiday resort in the UKFrom the Guardian:Sam Hill, spokeswoman for the Camping and Caravanning Club, which has an amazing 400,000 members in the UK (most of them stuck in front of me on the motorway), recommends Folkestone and the Kent coast. "It's gorgeous," she says. "Th... Welcome to Miami!Or, rather, from Miami, or even (by the time I write this up) hello from England, Miami sends its regards. Just BACK from a trip to the US of States to visit Clare's bro and sister-in-law in the pan-handle bit of the Americas. Tiring flight over to M... RE: Blackpool (being the third part of my two week holiday write up)Have to say I totally understand what you're saying about Blackpool - I've been there a few times on days out with Em (it's half an hour from Blackburn). It's a grim old place alright - stag and hen parties spilling out onto the street at ten in the ... I was looking for a job, and then I found a jobNo posts for a few days, I had something to say but wanted to wait until I got an official confirmation and things. Yes I'm back in the land of the permanently employed, just arranged some final details today and I start at Holiday Extras on Monday! ... Working!Great weekend visiting family and friends, more on which later, I am pressed for time now I'm back working full time! Started yesterday, am learning all the systems, mostly PHP and XML no problems at all. It's a great place to work, huge and modern b... So you work for HolidayExtras.com?I'm confoosed.YesThat's my new job, I'm a developer for <a href="http://www.holidayextras.com">holidayextras.com</a>.Have a look at AmsterdamJust a little panoramic swoop of a nice and Amsterdammy bit of Amsterdam. There's a canal, there's a windmill, there are probably prostitutes too if you squint hard enough: Some more pictures here didn't really take the camera out much.... The wedding (being the first part of my two week holiday write up)We started our little trip with a wedding, the least possible wedding that was still attached to home by land that I have ever been to. This was somewhere one side of the Scottish border, and the reception was just the other side, which was quite a n... Edinburgh (being the second part of our holiday)Edinburgh is nice. "Our kind of city" the wife wrote on her postcards, and I agree. We got a speedy train there from Carlisle into Edinburgh Haymarket, this was the side of the city we were staying on. We could have been a bit closer to the action bu... RE: The wedding (being the first part of my two week holiday write up)Now thats what I call a BBQ!African Comedy Show , Bank Holiday SpecialSmall World Solar Powered Spring FestivalAll over the bank holiday weekend, somewhere in Headcorn!The Open Air GalleryI was thinking "don't they know people have jobs to go to?" but then of course a) it's a bank holiday monday, and b) no I don't have a job to go to now anyway!Holiday Extras vs Eurostar<img src="http://fusion/fusion/images/stories/people_team/Football%20Advert%20copy.jpg" /> Not sure where this is, Great Chart somewhere.Open on Monday bank holidayWew are open on Monday from 10am for coffees, leaf teas, breakfasts, fixed menu, or normal - up to youNewmarket Races: Summer Bank Holiday Weekend in Newmarket66.00Camden CrawlPopbitch is hosting a venue at Camden Crawl in May. Join us at Cuban Bar, bank holiday Sunday, 2 May, with five bands, amazing DJs and other stuff to tell you about soon. Buy tickets now!seetickets.com/camdencrawl... Club Noir, Summer Holiday15.50Twisted Disco, Bank Holiday Sunday, Hed Kandi, Phil Faversham, Dean RiSandgate sea / food / beer festivalLots of things going on around The Ship pub over the bank holiday weekend... Is that this weekend or next?Holiday On Ice - Tropicana in Milan48.90Holiday On Ice - Tropicana in Milan45.21Holiday On Ice - Tropicana in Milan45.21Holiday On Ice - Tropicana in Milan45.21Holiday On Ice - Tropicana in Torino25.83Holiday On Ice - Tropicana in Torino30.45Holiday On Ice - Tropicana in Torino25.83MONSIEUR HULOT'S HOLIDAY (UGulbenkian Cinema 11Holiday extras web team xmas party 2010Easter Bank Holiday Sunday: Licked : Lisa MafiaRomeo + DJ Luck & MC Neat + Matt 'Jam' Lamont + DJ Pied PiperLeas Lift Ale launchLocal fund raising ale, on sale already but launched at lunchtime today. See you there (as I am on holiday)