EUROBLOG (a gog's adventures)

ok so what's happened since the beach party? hmmm,u might have to bare with me while i think back so i apologise if this blog's a bit scatty and all over the place!
so here goes....

well last saturday me, ryan and bobby deceided to grace town with our presence again and we wanted to drown our sorrows after united's disgraceful loss to chelsea (the least said abouthat the better). ryan and i had been drinking steadily since the game that afternoon so by the time bobby deceided to drink he had had some serious catching up to do. however it seems that the poor lad is a lightweight, and after a couple of vodka's in ryan's room and a serbian ice tea in the cock & bull (a night out just isn't the same if we don't go to the c&b at somepoint!) bobby was wasted! so we ventured over to Azkaban the local club again but bobby was wearing his superman t-shirt and the bouncers refused to let him in. it took all i had in my female arsenal + a bit of pretend british ignorance to blag our way into the club!!!!! in there bobby had his first pull of bordeaux, a short french girl with a HUGE nose- it ws like an accident, u couldn't help but look at it lol.

a little later on the guys frm the c&b came tot the club as well so we had a good chat to them and a few hours of dancing to some of the most random songs ever- shakira mixed in with fat man scoop inbetween a bit of bee gees!!!!! ace!

since we went to the club we had to wait for an hour to get the 5am tram home. so there we were, the 3 of us, sat the musee d'aquitaine tram stop when bobby doses off. many many many picures of drunken bobby were taken from then on, includind some pure gold pics of him on the tram. i haven't laughed so much in ages as i did on the tram on the way home. me and ryan were practically dying from laughing, and it took all our self-control not to leave bobby on the tram! sooo funny! he is such a chronic drunk lol.

apart frm that e've just been up to the norm really, me and ryan have been to the pub quite a few nights, as well as chez auguste which is fast becoming a fave of mine.

that's all though, but im sure there'll be more drunken anics to write about befor i get home!

a plus xxxx

Ok so i’ve been told that i’ve been neglecting my blog so i guessed i’d better get writing. Since the last time i wrote, we’ve had another night out,so i’ll give you a run-down on the events....

Friday 11 may : Beach party @ the cock and bull.
We went dressed in our beach gear- me in my new bikini !! and had loads of fun. For sum reason i deceided nt to go with my usual vodka and juice but instead opted for gin and tonic which i would soon realise was a very bad idea indeed. We got to chattin with the locals, took loads of pics and just generaly had a good time. We also went bobbing for plastic toys- bobby won a kiss frm the barman (which he didnt claim !), ryan won a pint of warm water that he had to down, grace wona a t-shirt and i won an irish music cd !!! very random indeed. While i ws sitting at the bar grace and i began chatting to some guy that works in a t-shirt printing shop called Yummi (or something like that), when i asked him where it ws he drew us a map- ON MY ARM ! by this point i think i must have been tipsy because i let him do it so i cnt blame him really ! there ws also a girl at the bar, dnt know who she is, but me her and grace rapped the whole theme tune to ‘the fresh prince of bel air’- i ws very proud of all of us- well done girls ! grace got very excited when a guy called Ellis walked into the pub and told us that he ws from the OC (grace loves the oc).having never really watched it i thought i ws in the presence of an actual american star and got quite excited myself, only to be told that he ws frm OC the place not the TV show- too much gin i think ! it seems that after my 3 drinks off vicky (i dnt think i paid for them either) i went a bit down hill and i cn remember sitting by the bar doin a sudoku when nicola asked me to go with her to the toilet. Off we went to the loo and as nicola ws doin what she needed to i (apparently) pushed her off the loo and threw up !!! next thing i know im outside the pub crouching next to a bin being sick with a very drunken zoe tryin to look after me !!! i dnt actually remember much of the being sick part of the night except that i kept apologising and saying « i’m 22 i’m too old to get drunk ». i cn vaguely remember bein carried upstairs by andrew, zoe and vince, and apparently as soon as vince put me to bed i went straight to sleep. You see, i didnt quite make it home so i had to stay at the pub again lol and nicola stayed too. We both slept in andrew’s bed while he kipped in with rich downstairs. Them guys are great ! i owe them so much ! its actually very lucky that i didnt go home that night because the morning after, we got the tram home and it made me feel sooooooooo sick, god knows how ill i might have been had i actually tried to go home.

Sunday 13 may : mam and dad came to visit
Went to meet mam and dad at their hotel which meant that i got to venture to the other side of the river- such a daredevil ! i showed them around a bit then we went to cassolette for some tea and a catch-up. Unfortunatley monday ws a bit of a grim day but nevertheless i took mam and dad all around the town and showed them some of the places that we always go to (nameley the cock and bull !!). we had lunch in a little resaurant where i had my first cup of tea since the end of march !!!! soooo happy for tea we went to the other side of the river again and to a restaurant called « au bureau », it ws really nice and even had a great view of the river.

Tuesday and weds i left mam and dad to do their own thing so not much happened really. Tuesday me, grace, ryan and martyn deceided to ride the tram to end of line A just to see what ws there-the answer ?.... nothing ! then ryan and i went for a mcdo’s (so naughty). Weds ws quite possibly of the most boring days of my time here. Did nothing except eat and type up my project.

Thursday went to an italien resrtaurant with mam, dad and grace then on to the cock and bull for a few beverages with the girlies !

Write again after the weekend !!!!!!

Alcohol + Alcatraz

Last Saturday was Emma’s 20th bday so we all went out for a drink to celebrate. We started off in ‘Chez Auguste’ on place de la Victiore, where all of us girls had a cocktail- that basically set the tone for the evening!! We then moved on to ‘El Bodegon’ a Spanish style bar were we had quite a bit more alcohol including some margaritas, which were like a slush puppy with one hell of a kick! The bar staff there were all dressed as women and Ryan even thought one was actually a woman, they were that convincing lol.
From there we’d planned on going to ‘Calle Ocho’ bt Emma went back to campus to spend the rest of her day with her boyfriend who’d flown out just for the day! So instead we ambled down the street to ‘The Cock and Bull’ (of course)!!!!!
In there a guy called Kieran bought me, grace and Nicola a shot each, so we had dominoes i.e. 4 glasses, 3 with a red bull type drink in them and 4 shots of something (not sure what it was) balancing on top of them. The trick is to knock the first shot glass which knocks the others and makes them fall in to the glasses and mix with the red bull stuff and then obviously we had to down them in one. And i'm quite proud to say that i’m pretty damn good at it! Then this Kieran guy decided that he wanted to see us take the shots again so he bought us 3 more!!! Each shot cost 5€ so we had 30€ worth of free drink! Then we bought ourselves some vodka/cranberry’s, vodka/orange’s and chatted to the staff at the pub until closing.
When the pub closed, Andrew (one of the barmen) and an Erasmus student called Chris took us to a club whose name I forget except to say that it sounds like Alcatraz. In the club we had yet more drink and met up with Ryan and Bobby who’d left the cock and bull sooner than us because they weren’t getting free drinks! So that’s where we had our first dance in 6 weeks- and it was soooooooo good!!! The club was tiny but it had music and room to dance to we couldn’t complain too much.
At around 3.30 we were joined in the club by Rich (another one of the barmen- who by the way got my vote in the ‘who’s the fittest barman?’ debate on the cock and bull facebook!) and Mickey an English guy who works on the boats (or sumthin like that) and is always in the pub. So we stayed in the club until it closed at around 4am at which point we decided to head back to the cock and bull to wait for the next tram at 5am. Except when we all got out the club, grace was nowhere to be seen so Andrew had to go back into the club to fetch her, it seems she was held up because she was giving her number to a French guy in a wheelchair! She was very excited about the prospect of practising her French lol- obviously she barely remembered about this the next day! She does remember however, playing with the buttons on his wheelchair lol!!!
Having dragged Grace out, we all walked over to wait by the tram stop outside the cock and bull. All of us just sat and chatted and took pictures. Except for Mickey, who was winding me up about Rich and taking advantage of my drunken gullibleness- and i’m still not entirely sure whether everything he said was a joke or not. I’m hoping everything was a joke, or Rich has some serious explaining to do!!!
When we eventually got the tram it was full of people just like us: drunk and in dire need of some sleep! Nicola went to sleep on the tram until we got to ‘Peixotto’ at which point we had to help her make a quick exit so she wasn’t sick on the tram! Bless her, she’d mixed her drinks a bit too much and was paying the price. Thankfully she was the only one to be sick, but to be fair, she had drunk a couple more drinks than grace and me. So then we had to get back on the tram, but there wasn’t one for another half an hour. So we sat patiently, one coat between 3 of us, waiting for the bloody tram! When grace and me had taken Nicola to her room, and we were satisfied that she was ok, we finally got to bed about 7am- just as the birds started to sing!

So that was our first PROPER night out in Bordeaux, but hopefully its the first of many obviously more things happened than what I wrote in here but as the saying goes “what goes on in Bordeaux- stays in Bordeaux!”

Until next time xxxxx

not much to report of late i'm afraid.
we've been goin to the cock and bull as usual to watch the footy, and last night we had a free shot of sambuca to lift our spirits because we lost (3-0 to AC Milan, devastated). aslo ryan made a deal with vicky the barmaid, that if we hadnt scored by 70th minute then they'd swap tops. needless to say ryan ended up in a very fetching tigh-fitted t-shirt while vicky looked every inch the manc in a utd shirt!!! good on ya ryan for keeping up ur end of the deal! and somehow i owe rich (one of the barmen) 2 pints- not sure what deal we made but i sure as hell dont remember making it!!!!
we also went to watch bordeaux play last sunday against lens. the score ended up as 1-0 and although it wasnt one of the best games i've ever watched, it was fun because Jose and Ada from our class came with us.
and thats it really... wish i had more to write but i dont. classes have been uneventful and no one has really made fools of themselves, so i'll save my energy for when i have somthing worthwhile to write about!

a plus xxxx

oh yeah, and grace dyed my hair! and a very good job she did indeed, gracias chica!