Well actually.....I came to a compromise that suits me well.....the area where I sit has become a little too crowded with students and holidaymakers....so I have found another area which is away from the madding crowd...it's kinda on the edge, the waves lap a few feet from my head...and I can do the speedo thing there without giving some old dear damp underwear....(or some young thing nausea...lol).....only problem is, the rocks are extremely jagged, so access into and exit is a hassle...I've already cut my feet a little...and you know how cuts don't heal in seawater... You fly 2moro, no?
The mediterranean sun, people jumping in the sea at 7 in the morning...the workers washing the sidewalks preparing for the day ahead...pasticci, coffee, palm trees, and eveyone in sunglasses... I'm going for a swim...
Sass, we concur, Freddie Mercury was one of those rare talents....he was like an Elton John, a Lennon, a Mozart...his music sounded like nobody else's....originality cannot be copied...
Well, you've heard of the Bermuda triangle?...yes, well because of global warming, it moved to the Med....at the geographical centre of it, is a little island called Malta. For some strange reason, lots of birds land with a plop on this place. People here use bird umbrellas...
Yeah exactly...and then you'rte supposed to lie their in your wet tent, and enjoy it!!....it's like sleeping naked in a wet bed with wool blankets, in a hot summer....
EXACTLY!!!....finally, a good argument!! ....I ask you, who wants to look like Sponge Bob in baggies??...bloody great flappers down below your knees....looks like you're going swimming in a tent!!...and then when you come out, you've got a wet tent flapping around your knees for half an hour...!!!.
A final gesture or performance, given before dying.
Origin
This term derived from the supposed behaviour of swans of singing beautifully and mournfully just before they die. This legend was well-known to be false as early as the days of ancient Greece, when Pliny the Elder refuted it in Natural History, AD 77:
"Observation shows that the story that the dying swan sings is false."
The imagery proved to be more attractive that scientific observation and many poets and playwrights have made use of it. Chaucer included this in a poem - "The Ialous swan, ayens his deth that singeth". Shakespeare used the tale in The Merchant of Venice, 1596:
Portia: Let music sound while he doth make his choice; Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end, Fading in music.
Thomas Carlyle referred to the actual term 'swan song' in Sartor resartus, 1831:
"The Phoenix soars aloft,... or, as now, she sinks, and with spheral *swan-song immolates herself in flame."
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RE: countries in order of living in (who is going to be the winner)
South AfricaPhiladelphia, USA
South Africa
Switzerland
Malta