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Hello
all, Another long one continuing from my last email
von Hungary.... at the end is an update on the situation
in Saudi...... enjoy
Well I think my last update was from Hungary back
in December. Since then I went to Vienna and had a
rip-roaring time visiting all the Irish Pubs in the
city. My cousin Sean was a great host and we went
around singing Irish and Oasis songs and tried to
figure out which pub poured the best Guinness.
After the guts of a week in Vienna, I headed over
to Istanbul, Turkey. I have a friend there named Carter
who is a Professor at Koc University. He has a sweet
pad there at the University that is full of Beautiful
Blonde haired (dyed) Turkish chicks. My Uncle flew
in from Ireland for my 30th B’day
and we had a nice time visiting all the different
underground clubs and putting down the Red Bull with
Vodka…. Seems to prevent hangovers
but I don’t remember getting home.
We tried to tour around a bit in the day and did
see Aye Sophia, which was very beautiful. The next
night we (me and my uncle) went out to an all-Turkish
pub. They had Turk music and dancing and we were drinking
Lions Milk at the bar. It is like a black licorice
flavored clear drink that you mix water with and it
turns white. My uncle got up on the stage and sang
a few Irish tunes and after a while the whole club
was dancing with us in a circle holding pinkies and
kicking up our feet was pretty funny.
Later on there was this table of people sitting near
us all sticking up their thumbs to us and saying Ok
over and over!! The bartender slips us a note saying
they are Kurdish Rebels….. We
are thinking great what do we do now. Should we try
and sneak out the back door or what? I then make the
call that we should just sit tight cause it seems
they want to be friends and talk….
This based on them talking about killing English people
to us cause we are Irish. So we ended up with no problems
and the rebels left…. We left
shortly after when a big fight broke out between the
band and the audience…….
After barely making it to the airport cause the hotel
didn’t wake us up……I
headed to NY and spent the Holidays there. Had a good
time, spent Christmas with the family and New Years
with my buddies in Vermont. I guess I only have two
stories from NY and one was how I woke up one night
with someone puking on me (won’t
mention names) and got in a bar fight for someone
bothering my Sis.
So now I am back in Saudi…..
things are a bit tense at the moment. It is rumored
that Kuwait will be closing their airport on the 17
of Feb for a war that will start on the 20th. We have
been told by the US Embassy to have all our bags packed
and important documents together for immediate evacuation.
We should also have an inventory of what we are leaving
behind too.
Coming back to Saudi was a bother too, they rifled
through all my stuff and had to investigate some of
my CD’s and books. When I got home
my water was brown and the TV was out. I did have
a nice weekend of drinking with the boss, fishing
and diving.
Next week I will be heading to Jordan to see Petra
(where the holy grail was in Indiana Jones and the
last crusade). I know you may be thinking this is
a bad time to go but I am not worried; I work with
a lot of Palestinians that have family in Jordan and
they will show us around. Also I will see one person
who is a Commander in the Jordanian Army and he will
take us around too. So I think it is a good opportunity
to see this place while it still exists.
Ok will keep you updated on the current events and
if I will be evacuating. If my company ships me out
I will go to Turkey. If I get shipped out by the US
government I will probably get dropped off somewhere
in the States.
Oh I have a home answering machine now so you can
call and leave messages(cheaper than talking to me,
hehe)… 011 966 2 654-8808 x 250.
Take care,
Brian
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