Saturday 30 September 2006

Foto Friday


A late arrival today. Sorry, been busy at work since 6.30am this morning...

This week's photo was taken in Pamplona last year. It is from the opening ceremony of the Running of the Bulls or Festival of San Fermin as it is officially called.

The opening ceremony takes place in the main square and is a claustrophobic's worst nightmare. There are so many people that you can lift your feet off the ground and just hang in mid-air. It also gets very messy with people squirting bubbly everywhere and throwing flour once the midday gun fires to officially open the fiesta!

Chat soon,
DelBoy

Tuesday 26 September 2006

Malta holiday pics

I thought I'd try something new. Below are some of my holiday photos from Malta. To view them a little bigger, just click on them.

Let me know what you think.



Chat soon,
DelBoy

Saturday 23 September 2006

Foto Friday


Photo Friday time again! This week is a dive photo from my holiday. Yes, I finally got them back from the lab today!

The photo is of a lobster hiding in under a rock. Can you see it?

Chat soon,
DelBoy

Monday 18 September 2006

DelBoy on...


OK, so it's been a while since my last post (about 2 weeks!). Time for a little catch-up!

DelBoy on work: I'll start with the boring stuff. Work has been really busy since coming back from my holidays. I'm running two pubs at the moment. The second pub is a gastro pub in Holland Park - very posh! It's fun, 'cos its something very different. They do double the sales that my other pub does and they do as much food in a day as what my pub sells in a week! It's only short-term until they find another manager, but apparently I'm there for at least another 4 weeks!

DelBoy on Carnival: I had a great Carnival this year. Not the working bit or the money we made, but the after-party I had with my staff. We drank steins (1 litre) of Margarita and shots of vodka until 3am. The neighbours were having a wicked party on their balcony which we joined. The next morning I felt it though!

DelBoy on Josh: The weekend before Notting Hill Carnival, we had an incident with Josh. We rushed him to hospital, but he is 100% now. As a matter of fact, they found nothing wrong with him at all!! They can only guess at what happened, but I tell you what, IT WAS F#$£!^G SCARY!! He is great now except that he went for his injections this week which he was not too keen on.

DelBoy on holidays: Malta is great! If any of you get the chance, just do it! Its quite cheap too (well if you come from London it is). The weather was magnificent all week - minimum temperature around 26 degrees C! The food on the island is delicious and very cheap - 3 course meal for 2 people plus bottle of wine for around GBP£15. Not only are there some fantastic beaches, but there is also a lot of history on the isalnds (5 of them) if you are interested in that kind of thing. I managed to do 6 scuba dives whilst there too, including a night dive.

DelBoy on diving: Although the water temperature averaged around 26 degrees C, I was a little disappointed in what I saw under the water. The fishlife wasn't very colourful - a bit like diving in Cape Town. The plantlife was a little better. The night dive was magnificent though 'cos there were loads more fish about. The 2 wreck dives were great too 'cos the wrecks have only been down there since 23 August 2006 and they are still very intact. I would love to go back next year just to see how things have changed! The dive in Comino Caves was also beautiful if only for the magnificent colours!

That's me for now. I will post some holiday snaps soon.

Chat soon,
DelBoy

PS: DelBoy on rugby: Despite getting the wooden spoon in this year's Tri-Nations, I would just like to re-iterate my favourite saying, "You're only as good as your last game". And yes, we beat the Kiwis by one point and then the Aussies by 24 - 16!

Saturday 16 September 2006

Foto Friday


This week's photo was taken in Cambridge a few years ago. It is the 'Mathematical Bridge'. It was originally designed and built in 1749. As myth would have it, this bridge was originally built without nails or screws and was held together only by its various joints. The story goes that it was disassembled by the Fellows of Queens College who then couldn't put it back together again without the use of nuts and bolts! For more info, see the Queens College website.

Chat soon,
DelBoy

Sunday 3 September 2006

Foto Friday


Photo time again. Let's see what I can dig up for you this time...

How about this one? It was taken in November last year. We went to watch the rugby (we lost btw). Can anyone guess the city? Easy!!!

Chat soon,
DelBoy