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Seems like Alan isn’t all that impressed with Bernadette’s timing. Just in the nick of time by the looks of it too!
You may or indeed may not know that I was a guest of webcomic/podcast site of choice, Y2cl! They’ve been making funny stuff for over five years and have have recorded over nine podcasts so far in a very fun and well produced way!
Also with me was Rose Loughran of Red Moon Rising fame and the podcast was awesome although Rose’s ecelectic music habits must be recorded onto last.fm soon. I am working on it!
In personal news, I got invited to play rugby in Italy during the autumn later this year. This is despite myself having not much actual rugby experience to speak of but the Italian guys, who I met at last year’s Heineken Cup final, were insistent and theres the chance to chill out in Milan and go watch Italy take on the All Blacks at the San Siro so I can’t miss out!
I’m using Google Analytics quite a bit to help me drill down into viewer stats and I found some fun fun figures, specifically who was visiting from where and I’ll reveal all:
- The top three nations for vistors are the USA, Britain and Canada.
- The most visitors outside of North America & Europe come from Egypt (71 unique hits since march!) So asaalam to all you nice people!
- 235 Australians have visited since March…note to self: need to block access to Australians.
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UPDATE 01:19 GMT on the 24th March: VOTE INCENTIVE FOR PAGE TEN IS NOW UP AND SKETCH PAGES SEVEN, EIGHT & NINE ARE IN THE WIKI! PLEASE VOTE!
This is a provisional placeholder for Monday as Prestwick will be heading back from Rome at this point. Blog and ramble to come later.
UPDATE 15:59 GMT: Arivaderchi e ciao from the UK for I have returned!
Great holiday to Rome and I’ll post some photos when I get home later tonight. Flew out from London at 6am Friday morning, saw the Rugby on Saturday first from the Stadio Flaminio for France vs Italy before racing to an Irish bar to watch England vs Scotland and Wales vs Ireland. Hearty congratulations to Ireland for scooping the Grand Slam after an epic, epic match that swung both ways multiple times.
Italy’s rugby fans are some of the best. They welcome you with open arms, buy you wine and order the beer and tell you the best bars and resturants to enjoy the finest food and drink with such selfless friendship that you know that it is this that makes Rugby what it is. Honorable mentions go out to the visiting French fans (36 – 10 harr harr) and the resident Irishmen without whom no party can be complete.
Yesterday spent the day roaming the Forum, the Colleseum and the Pantheon. All of which are epic sights and while it may sound silly but even though all that remains of some sites at the forum are floor plans and the odd stump of a column but if you squint you can make out the glory of ancient Rome. Imagine being a Roman Legionaire from a far flung province like Briton or Iberia visiting Rome for the first time and seeing all this. Surely an Empire this worthy of buildings so spectacular could never fail? Incredible.
And then theres the endless bottles of decent wine. The Ciantes especially were superb and floated around the 45 Euro mark. Well, when in Rome…
I could mention the food, the bread stacked with exactly the right amounts of proscutto and buffalo motzarella, the roast veal, the spinnach & ricotta tortelini done not too thick as to be solid on the inside and not too thin as to fall apart on the plate but just right as to melt in the mouth. Fantastic.
You could say that if I was given a £10,000 pay rise I’d be tempted to move to Rome and if you got me a good flat overlooking the leafy area around the Villa Borghese then I would say “SOLD!”
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