Cheers!

I posted this YouTube video of some guy ranting about Neteller and I thought I would follow it up with a discussion on the phrase/word “Cheers.” In the US, cheers is something you say as you clink your glasses together as a toast. In Europe, it’s sort of like Aloha in that it has several …

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What I Did On My Christmas Vacation

After being in Gib for three months I was becoming a little stir crazy. Gib is nice and all but other than a few trips over the boarder to La Linea and some business travel I hadn’t been taken advantage of the local surroundings. I rented a car from a Spanish rental company and picked …

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When English != English

Gibraltar has a lovely mix of people from all over Europe and all of them speak English. But as Facty has pointed out in her experiences in Ireland things are not always as they seem. Chips are fries, fries are fries, crisps are chips, biscuits are cookies, and cookies are cookies. It’s a little deeper …

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India Part II

WARNING NO POKER CONTENT This is a long overdue follow up to my post London and India. Over the next several days I would come to hate the Marriott. Not the entire chain, just this hotel. It’s out in the middle of nowhere on the other side of Husain Sagar lake yet they don’t even …

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London and India Part I

WARNING NO POKER CONTENT Via the marvels of the Internet it may not be obvious but I’ve been traveling quite a bit recently. I’ve got writer’s cramp from filling out so many landing forms. I spent a week in London and then headed over to Hyderabad, India for a week. All in all, close 12,000 …

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