COLD DARK ROOM

[Lyn W]

I'm afraid my official conquest photographer, aka wifey, was drunk most of the time, so there will be more blurry photos.
More on her drinking later.
Morning, Lyn.
Have you been enjoying your break ?

Morning Adam
I always enjoy the breaks even if I have had strange noises in my head all week!
I usually have strange noises in my head when I'm in school too but that's just the kids,

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Nope I've watched it all the way through and can't see your yacht anywhere..

Seriously, I promise I had NOTHING to do with that.

 

[Lyn W]

Are you sure you haven't just left a radio on somewhere ?
Seriously, i know how horrible this is, hope it's fixed soon.

I did wonder that the other day when I was hearing quite musical sounds but after the same tune was playing for hours I decided it wasn't the radio, buried it in the garden anyway just in case.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Next was the siege of the castle.
This took only a couple of hours as the idiots had turned it into a tourist resort (but only recently) .

,Here I am waving my hat triumphantly from the first of the castle's surrounding towers.
There was actually no one in this place at all.
Easy.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I did wonder that the other day when I was hearing quite musical sounds but after the same tune was playing for hours I decided it wasn't the radio, buried it in the garden anyway just in case.

I once had it for a few weeks and it sounded a bit like the 'Star Wars' theme.
Can't watch it ever again.
Which is no loss.

 

[Lyn W]

Next was the siege of the castle.
This took only a couple of hours as the idiots had turned it into a tourist resort (but only recently) .
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,Here I am waving my hat triumphantly from the first of the castles surrounding towers.
There was actually no one in this place at all.
Easy.

Shame there was no one there to welcome you.
Never mind it's the fort that counts!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

We did find an enemy chicken.
But I allied myself to a group of post-modernist frogs who surrounded it.

Unfortunately, they had no water for their weaponry so are all still there, in a permanent siege.
But it took the chicken out of the war.

 

[Lyn W]

We did find an enemy chicken.
But I allied myself to a group of post-modernist frogs who surrounded it.
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Unfortunately, they had no water for their weaponry so are all still there, in a permanent siege.
But it took the chicken out of the war.

Good job - if it had got away it could have used its eggocet missile on you.
I hope they eventually frog march it to the dungeons of the castle.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good job - if it had got away it could have used its eggocet missile on you.
I hope they eventually frog march it to the dungeons of the castle.

They better not chicken out.

 

[Lyn W]

Right I'll have to hear about the rest of Adam's campaign later.
Must get cracking (the whip - no chicken egg pun intended)
See you soon
TTFN

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Having been repelled from the main castle by some boisterous Chinese tourists, we retreated to our bridgehead position.
Tarifa is famous for its wind.
And i don't mean the wind caused by too much paella.
It is the meeting point of the Atlantic and Mediterranean and has excellent winds and breakers for wind-surfing, kite-surfing and surfing.
If you like that sort of thing.
Lots of American hippie types come here to strut their stuff.
The Atlantic beach is beautiful and 6 kilometres long.

These invaders are being forced back into the sea.
Notice the defensive barriers I have erected against a counter-invasion.
(actually to prevent LSD - long shore drift, not anything naughty, and to stop people walking on the plants) .

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Right I'll have to hear about the rest of Adam's campaign later.
Must get cracking (the whip - no chicken egg pun intended)
See you soon
TTFN

White ho.
See you later.
Lots more of my invasion to come.

As night falls most of the parachute guys seemed to end up crashing into the island.
This island, connected by a causeway to the mainland is the southernmost point of mainland Europe, only Malta and a couple of Greek islands are further south. The lighthouse, which I planned to assault the next day, is a Faros (rather than Pharos)
The bar we were in served enormous gins, really huge.
They gave wifey the bottle, Blue Sapphire, i think, at one point.
She only had two and a bit glasses of the stuff, but it was a monumental amount.
I had a couple of small beers.

 

[Gillian M]

Hols.
Back now.
Love you, Gillian
Love you, Oli.

Hello Adam, Wifey and Tidgy, and.......WELCOME BACK!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

To the left of the island is the Mediterranean.
To the right, the Atlantic.
Wonderful.

And, of course, in the distance, in many of these photos, just visible to the left of the island in this one, is Morocco!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hello Adam, Wifey and Tidgy, and.......WELCOME BACK!

Thank you, Gillian.
It's always nice to be home.

 

[JoesMum]

They just played this on the radio. I just had to crank the volume up. Thumbs in belt-loops everyone... and

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Night.
A pause to our attack as, by now, wifey was very, very drunk.

 

[Gillian M]

Thank you, Gillian.
It's always nice to be home.

Hope you enjoyed yourselves.

Temp dropped and it began to rain here, without prior notice. I put on the electric heater right away. It truly is desert climate.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

They just played this on the radio. I just had to crank the volume up. Thumbs in belt-loops everyone... and

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hope you enjoyed yourselves.

Temp dropped and it began to rain here, without prior notice. I put on the electric heater right away. It truly is desert climate.

We had a great time.
Still well in to the thirties here. (temp, not decade, though that too, in a way.)