Happy news! At last, I can wear fez in public with no fear of criticism! For in order to distract myself from my current situation*, I am looking forward with a keening hunger to the week I am - to my astonishment - about to spend on a yacht in Turkey, where I believe the Fez is in common usage!
In Turkey, we will celebrate the 60th birthday of my father, Monkeypapa. (My father father has long been a supplier to the eateries of the Edgware Road, and has Contacts). The celebrations will take the form of long games of quoits and backgammon tournaments, interspersed with re-enactments of the invasion of La Rochelle harbour. (I will be playing Richelieu and my brother, Runningmonkey, a rabble of unruly Huguenot.)
Upon my return from Turkey, I shall spend some time in London (the city in which I live, despite living in Amsterdam and wanting to live in Montreal), where I will greet my long-lost friends with a hearty handshake and mug bearing the handsome visage of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
But I will be back from Turkey and London by 11th June, and must have something to look forward to after that, otherwise I shall wither and die. I am therefore casting my mind forward to my next vacation, to be taken - perhaps - around the beginning of July. It may involve a long weekend and a member of the veterinarian profession, but I am not sure.** Nonetheless, I have narrowed my choices down, and ask you for your guidance: should my next Abroad Adventure be here:
Or here?
Do let me know!
"That's dainty!", as Barry at the office said last week.
* Like waiting for a bus for over three hours
** Advantage of being freelance: can take holiday when you want. Disadvantage of taking holidays: you do not get paid, therefore meaning you have to work for longer either side.
However, without the holidays I would have eaten my own brain some months ago as I genuinely dislike what I am doing at the moment; it is ghastly. There is a reason I stopped doing it four years ago: a reason I do not need to be reminded of.
5 comments:
I have the worrying feeling that the fez was banned some time ago in Turkey as a racial stereotype and a symbol of feudalism. It might be as well to check before you wear it in the street, although I'm sure it will be practical and acceptable headgear on a yacht.
Have an awfully good time.
Oh dear Lord! I would not want to upset anyone. Perhaps I should wear it in my berth whilst drinking rum?
Do you have anyone tapped to play Louis XIII yet? As a second choice I don't mind taking on Gustav II - I do a very nice meatball and I once survived a marathon trip to IKEA.
Option 2.
I like the first place.
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