A life of exile in Vancouver, Canada

Rude Return to UK

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We had breakfast in the hotel restaurant again this morning, Don had an omelette and I had my usual cereal and croissant. Went back upstairs to pack our bags then checkout. We walked to the Central Station along the river, which was quite pleasant, and caught the train to the airport…cheap compared to the UK [...]

Chinese Life in Amsterdam

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We had breakfast inside our hotel room this morning, we got some croissant from CH supermarket yesterday. We continued our tour of the city by canal boat, luckily our ticket didn’t expire until 12noon. A party of British grannies and grandaddies were on our boat….oh gawd bless their cotton socks….they wouldn’t stop talking….the price of [...]

Crazy Amsterdam

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First thing we saw this morning were some cruise liner’s come into the city thanks to the view we had from our hotel window. The hotel breakfast was a little expensive but pleasant surroundings, the waiting staff we nice too! We bought a ticket on the hop-on-hop-off canal boat and made our way round the [...]

Day of Traveling

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Today we were up early this morning to go to Amsterdam. Everything seemed to go to plan but it was a long day. The worst part was arriving at Heathrow Terminal 4 with so many people there, everyone must have been wanting to get away this weekend. The dummies at British Airways wouldn’t let us [...]

Gay Refugees Seek Asylum

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Interesting interview on NPR about gay refugees seeking asylum in the US joined by Victoria Nielson of Immigration Equality. Click here to access the interview.

More Neighbor Hell

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Felt crap today due to a night of horror from our deranged next door neighbors in a domestic violence mega-session again. Woken up at 11.30, 1.30 and 5.30 throughout the night. Got up, felt crap, rest of day was a haze. Our friend Ed came round at 11.15 to pick us up to go to [...]

Not Well

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As soon as I got back to the UK I didn’t feel good at all. First I thought it was some kind of food poisoning but later it was discovered to be some kind of virus. I had half day in the office, the day I got back, and had to go home. I was [...]