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Amazingly, jet fuel is free of tax. How long can that last?
Now that's a good photograph.
In a distant land my girlfriend is making her way back to the UK. I pick her up in the evening at Speke - it is good to see her again.
Nature endlessly tries out different designs. This particular design was extremely effective for about three billion years. Then Tesco was invented and suddenly it began to look a little outdated.
On the way from Norwich to Portsmouth via London we call in at Mildenhall to see some fast jets set off to bomb Colonel
Gadaffi. I open the bonnet to get something out and there is a twang and the bonnet release cable breaks.
We turn round and drive back to Manchester to get another car.
We get to Portsmouth in plenty of time and board the ferry to Bilbao. There are some nice boats around including
HMS Bristol, which has just been extensively refitted.
This time we have a seriously crap cabin.
We arrive at 6.00pm and set off for Salamanca which is about 290 miles away. Using stealth technology we arrive in ... good time.
Salamanca is a dump. It is claimed to be one of the four best cities in Spain but they are lying. In fact the whole
place seems to induce lunacy. We eat in a restaurant which is full of locals and some Scottish people who rave
about the beauty of Salamanca and what a good restaurant this is. We have dry bread to start and a bottle of reasonable wine.
I have 6 tiny but very good chops with 6 lettuce leaves and 6 disgustingly soggy chips. My girlfriend has a piece of cardboard
pretending to be a fish and 6 soggy chips. The bill is 59 euros. There are plenty of places in Spain where you can get a memorable
meal with wine for two people for 40 euros or less.
But why were the locals there? Maybe it is like those buses in Africa. When you get on the driver tells you it will leave when
it is full. You look around and there is only one empty seat. Then somebody gets on but immediately somebody gets off. And so
it goes on - the bus is full of people paid to sit there in order to fool tourists.
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