Since January 1st I didn't fly, and from Friday the 15th till July 28th, There will be 15 flights with me on board.
If all 14 before the 15th don't crash.
Custom officers will see me naked again.
This year I have already had 8 flights with a further 7 booked for later in the year and a possible 2 before then. But the 8 and 2 won't add any new countries, the 7 will add 3. Portugal, Italy and France.
I coudln't decipher "dart@ even with Maryam-Webster dictionary.
Anyway(s), I am nowin Geneve, at the airport whose name in Serbian sounds like a woman.
In three hours I take for Amsterdam.
Hope I'll increase ELO in a OTB tournament, but before this, I'll see Nick Cave live and meet Dutch branche of my family.
Darts is a popular (ahem) sport in the Netherlands and England. It's the only sport apart from Sumo wrestling in which there is almost a requirement to be severely overweight (and preferably drunk).
Originally posted by vandervelde Flights [u]1st accomplished[/u]
I coudln't decipher "dart@ even with Maryam-Webster dictionary.
Anyway(s), I am nowin Geneve, at the airport whose name in Serbian sounds like a woman.
In three hours I take for Amsterdam.
Hope I'll increase ELO in a OTB tournament, but before this, I'll see Nick Cave live and meet Dutch branche of my family.
1 done, 14 to go.
Will you see Mr. Cave's entire life or just a portion of it? 😉
And this: All things Beautiful, the assassination of Jessie James
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E4J7EoUPS0
Not really my type of music, sonhouse. I found it quite boring, but thank you for posting the links anyway. I do like to try listening to new artists every now and then. (Obviously I'm aware he's been around for many years as I have heard of him from various quarters since my schooldays). I like to use Spotify and skip through the songs/pieces I don't like. Then I can save the ones I do to some list for future listening.
Mind your step! Mind your step! Mind your step!
This is the mantra at Schiphol - Amsterdam airport.
Flight No 2 (Geneve - Amsterdam) accomlished - now waiting for the third: Amsterdam - Luqa (Malta).
The Hague was rainy - sunny - showering - cloudy.
Tommorow is the first round.
I am preparing a tread for Chess forum, in which /tread/ I am going to mercilessly dissect my two defeats on first day of Coenhagen tournament where i lost 70 ELO points. (So as to follow Botvinnik's advice to study your own defeats.)
Flights 4 and 5 accomplished
Malta - Munich
and
Munich - Belgrade.
Flights 6 and 7 also.
Belgrade - Zurich
and after short connection (*1 hour) wuth a lot of sweatting and running and stress I jumped into another plane
for flight
Zurich - Amsterdam.
I am here because of Mario Biondi. He sshould have had a gig at Paradiso.
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But he cancelled tea show. Damned him!
Tickets and hotel were non-reffundable.
Fy.ck.
And what to do in Amsterdam?
It's a city for pensionists/
Coffee shops all over, coffee went out on my nose.
And grandmothers in some windows with red lamps, I guess it's a communist matter.
And nowhere you an see real Amsterdamers, it looks mostly like Damascus or Casablanca.
Flighst 8 and 9 accomplished--->
8.
Amsterdam - Zurich
and
9.
Zurich - Belgrade
This time short connection - 1 hour 5 minutes - wasn't stressful since first flight arrived even before scheduled time.
Swiss Airlines - which operated those flights - have a custom to serve a piece of Swiss chocolate after refreshment.
I felt like eating chocolate so much that I bought a package of 5 pieces of Lindt's at duty free before second flight.
15 May '15 14:26
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