A close friend of mine has recently come back from a holiday in Mexico...
Mexico. Of all the places I would like to at least see before I die, I reckon this is one of them ...
And not only for the typically 'Tourist- y' type of things... Those I would do a couple of days before I leave for home ...
I would want to go to an inland town and sample the true life of Mexico , and experience the way people do really live ,work and play ... and to sample the Unique character of a Typically Mexican lifestyle ...
You know ... the music , the food , the people , the art and culture ... and maybe perhaps the Pyramids they have over there ...
I believe I have quite a 'cosmopolitan' attitude ...
~ ( and by that , I mean ready to observe and absorb the ethos, or total experience )
I would be kicking at the heels to just involve myself with it all ..... thats' the sort of chap I am ...
Which brings me quite nicely back to my friend , who went there ....
.. and this is what I cannot understand ... he was away for 4 weeks , Luxury 5 Star ALL INCLUSIVE Hotel , fantastic food and drink ... great surroundings , Fabulous weather ~ Superb Accomodation , fully stacked Fridge bar , Satellite TV , Broadband internet access , Telephone , even an mp3 player .. 24 hour waiter service
I could go on and on ...
~ And the more I think about it the more it annoyed me ... all he had to show for it was a couple of videos shot on his Videocam , a few tourist- y ------
( theres that word AGAIN ! ) ---
Souvenirs .... ie. .. a stuffed donkey cuddly toy in a sombrero , a few bottles of Tequila ( what a surprise) and a million pictures ...." This is the wife and me in ...... a restaurant , on the beach ,in a MexicanTaverna, Hotel Heated ( ! ) Swimming pool , at the airport waiting for the plane ... , insert your own location here ................
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I have known my friend for over 20 years ... and for the first time ever, I wanted to kill him ..
..Of course I wouldn't ... I really felt like it when he came back,though ... !
As you do , you expect to find out a bit more about where he had just been (Cancun) , and his surroundings ... and learn about his experiences ... highlights etc..
Unfortuneately this was not to be ....
I bitterly regret giving him my email address .... thats how I found out he had been on holiday .... he posted everything to me in 5 zips .... .. and then he had the nerve to invite the missus and I out for a drink ... via email ... Grrrr !
He didn't even lift his telephone up to speak to me , and still hasn't since he came back .. it was all done by email ..
One Word . PRAT .
Sometimes I really hate the internet .... Oh well ...