Warm Beer, Lousy Food, Bad Hotels
English sporting prowess never ceases to amaze. I was lucky enough to miss out on the collective hysteria of our European Cup campaign, though that Swiss ref did make a mistake. "Tiger" Tim Henman (who the hell thought up that moniker for him?) made it to the quarter finals and lost convincingly. Shame. Then our cricketing team who did so well in the last test series against the Kiwis, who are a good side and I don't care what anyone says, bitched-out in spectacular fashion against them and the Windies in the NatWest one-day series. All this as the Summer turned into end-of-the-world rain and storms. It's a good job that I don't care much, apart from in the cricket as that is one sport that I enjoy. But it was nice to see that nothing ever really changes. Coming back to the UK from abroad seemed normal at first though the amount of little things that I have noticed and took for granted before is large. I'm not talking of the obvious things like my own b...