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pirateninja · 15th Aug 2008, 01:59 AM

Well, there we are, I'm back. (You have no idea just how much I missed this place)

So, armed with a bag of belongings and a daft straw hat, I flew out on the Tuesday, and was greeted by a scorching heatwave in the Dordoyne. The heat there reached a high of 45 degrees centigrade, not good for someone like me who rarely gets out in English sunshine. So I've come back with a bit of a tan

And so with my South Park DVDs keeping me sane from terrible EC withdrawal symptoms, I set out across the Dordoyne, exploring the caves of Grotte de Villiars (which we nicknamed "Grotty Villars") and it took a lot of restraint to stop myself from shouting "Manbearpig lives here! I'm super serial!".

As well as this, there was something called Acrobois, where there were assault courses up in the trees and, naturally, I had to have a go. Although, just a word of warning, a whole day of climbing trees gives you severe arm-ache the day afterwards, and I still have some bruises from where I hit a tree while swinging on a Tarzan rope. (Photographs coming soon

)

We also arrived in time for the village's agricultural festival, where they get out all the old farming machinery and cut the corn in the fields (Again, I had another desire to shout out something South Park related; "Nice lookin' corn, and next years will be even better. RECTUS! DOMINUS!"; but yet again, I managed to stop myself)

And from the same festival I manged to purchase 3 bottles of Bordeaux Superieur 2002

Seriously, if you ever manage to get your hands on some of this, do. It's orgasmic. It being France I manged to sample quite a few brands (Madrian Laplace 2000, Vin du Pays d'Oc 2006 being the main ones) However the 2000 was very sedimenty, which I can't stand, and the 2006 was quite sharp and takes an aquired taste. The 2002 is a beautiful blend of tangy fruitiness that makes a red wine, and yet has a certain sublety of a white. I've even taken the liberty of labelling the bottle with a warning ("Holly's Wine; Do NOT drink, or castration with a spoon with be imminent"). Harsh, yes, but the wine is brilliant.

Honestly, I think the holiday has tripled my alcohol tolerance; the only time I didn't have something alcoholic was when time deemed it "too early" for alcohol according to my mom's boyfriend, and so in these times I drank Coca Cola. As we stopped for a drink for most of the day I was usually either drunk or on a sugar high, or a highly amusing mixture of both.

And for the last couple of days I have been travelling back in my mom's boyfriend's car (called Doris), from the Dordoyne to St Malo, and just yesterday from St Malo to home. A cramped car is not a pleasant place to be stuck for two days, however with the prospects of returning to EC, and a techno remix of "I'm not your fwiend, buddy" blaring in my ears, I managed to not complain too much.

So, what did I miss?

**Maddy** · 15th Aug 2008, 03:22 AM

Yay, welcome back! 45 degrees is a killer! I love the label you put on the wine - you sure mean business, don't you?

Level N Human · 15th Aug 2008, 03:43 AM

45 degrees celsius? Holy bajeezus, isn't that aorund 110 fahreneheit? (Sorry for being so American.

)

You sound like you had a good time.

It's a shame you missed the mafia overtake and rivetting turnabout.

beckyg · 15th Aug 2008, 06:59 AM

Welcome back Holly!

-Michael- · 15th Aug 2008, 07:03 AM

ahah i actually got axicted seeing this thread...

Welcome back

Trumpetplyer23 · 15th Aug 2008, 07:14 AM

Welcome back!!

Mirko · 15th Aug 2008, 10:38 AM

Welcome back!

jazzrawr · 15th Aug 2008, 11:03 AM

YAAY!! Welcome back!!

We've missed you terribly!!
And the label on the wine bottle made me chuckle. XD
Your humorous posts and South Park references have been sorely missed, Holly

Alexander · 15th Aug 2008, 11:55 AM

HOLLLLLLLLLLYYYY!!

Welcome back

Fiorino · 15th Aug 2008, 01:02 PM

Well, I've just gotten back myself, but welcome back!
It sounds like you got the hot weather that I missed
while I was away in a colder climate.
The wine label made me laugh. I'll be sure not
to mess with your wine, then.

InaRut · 15th Aug 2008, 01:38 PM

Bad news Holly. While you were gone Paul sold EC's rights to Fred Phelps and his CRAZZEH Church. So now this is a homosexual lifestyle converstion forum. We are all now learning how to be "Normal" and "Proper to god."

Oh and we are now sponsered by Coke Cola who is also sponsering the Olympics.

panda · 15th Aug 2008, 02:08 PM

Yay!! Pirateninja has returned.

Jebs · 15th Aug 2008, 07:14 PM

I know you ran to France for a safe haven... but YOU and ME totally have unfinished business.

16th Aug 2008, 12:03 PM

welcome back =]

heatqueen · 17th Aug 2008, 03:23 AM

Yay, welcome back!! I don't know how I survived without you. Glad you had an awesome time though.

15th Aug 2008, 01:59 AM	#1
pirateninja EC's Sailor Uranus Full Member Gender: Biologically Female Orientation: Heterosexually Challenged Out Status: Most people Location: Bath, England Age: 21 Posts: 5,853 Join Date: Sep 2007	Pirateninja's French Adventure Well, there we are, I'm back. (You have no idea just how much I missed this place) So, armed with a bag of belongings and a daft straw hat, I flew out on the Tuesday, and was greeted by a scorching heatwave in the Dordoyne. The heat there reached a high of 45 degrees centigrade, not good for someone like me who rarely gets out in English sunshine. So I've come back with a bit of a tan And so with my South Park DVDs keeping me sane from terrible EC withdrawal symptoms, I set out across the Dordoyne, exploring the caves of Grotte de Villiars (which we nicknamed "Grotty Villars") and it took a lot of restraint to stop myself from shouting "Manbearpig lives here! I'm super serial!". As well as this, there was something called Acrobois, where there were assault courses up in the trees and, naturally, I had to have a go. Although, just a word of warning, a whole day of climbing trees gives you severe arm-ache the day afterwards, and I still have some bruises from where I hit a tree while swinging on a Tarzan rope. (Photographs coming soon ) We also arrived in time for the village's agricultural festival, where they get out all the old farming machinery and cut the corn in the fields (Again, I had another desire to shout out something South Park related; "Nice lookin' corn, and next years will be even better. RECTUS! DOMINUS!"; but yet again, I managed to stop myself) And from the same festival I manged to purchase 3 bottles of Bordeaux Superieur 2002 Seriously, if you ever manage to get your hands on some of this, do. It's orgasmic. It being France I manged to sample quite a few brands (Madrian Laplace 2000, Vin du Pays d'Oc 2006 being the main ones) However the 2000 was very sedimenty, which I can't stand, and the 2006 was quite sharp and takes an aquired taste. The 2002 is a beautiful blend of tangy fruitiness that makes a red wine, and yet has a certain sublety of a white. I've even taken the liberty of labelling the bottle with a warning ("Holly's Wine; Do NOT drink, or castration with a spoon with be imminent"). Harsh, yes, but the wine is brilliant. Honestly, I think the holiday has tripled my alcohol tolerance; the only time I didn't have something alcoholic was when time deemed it "too early" for alcohol according to my mom's boyfriend, and so in these times I drank Coca Cola. As we stopped for a drink for most of the day I was usually either drunk or on a sugar high, or a highly amusing mixture of both. And for the last couple of days I have been travelling back in my mom's boyfriend's car (called Doris), from the Dordoyne to St Malo, and just yesterday from St Malo to home. A cramped car is not a pleasant place to be stuck for two days, however with the prospects of returning to EC, and a techno remix of "I'm not your fwiend, buddy" blaring in my ears, I managed to not complain too much. So, what did I miss? __________________ Holly the Pirateninja Ars Longa, Vita Brevis.

15th Aug 2008, 03:22 AM	#2
Maddy Free Hugs EC Admin Gender: - Orientation: Into girls Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 21 Posts: 7,700 Join Date: Mar 2008	Re: Pirateninja's French Adventure Yay, welcome back! 45 degrees is a killer! I love the label you put on the wine - you sure mean business, don't you? __________________ how strange it is to be anything at all [Victor] 2:09 pm: and then halloween happened and I was outside in a skirt.

15th Aug 2008, 03:43 AM	#3
Level N Human Deluxe Full Member Gender: Female Orientation: Fag-ette. Out Status: Most friends Age: 22 Posts: 816 Join Date: Jul 2007	Re: Pirateninja's French Adventure 45 degrees celsius? Holy bajeezus, isn't that aorund 110 fahreneheit? (Sorry for being so American. ) You sound like you had a good time. It's a shame you missed the mafia overtake and rivetting turnabout. __________________ If we hit that bullseye the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate.

15th Aug 2008, 06:59 AM	#4
beckyg PFLAG Mom Community Liaison Gender: Female Orientation: Straight Out Status: Out to everyone/Yes, parents come out too! Location: Middle of Oregon Age: 50 Posts: 7,572 Join Date: Mar 2007	Re: Pirateninja's French Adventure Welcome back Holly! __________________ "When we're free to love anyone we choose, When this worlds big enough for all different views, When we're all free to worship from our own kind of pew, Then we shall be free" ~ Garth Brooks

15th Aug 2008, 07:03 AM	#5
-Michael- Been gone a while. Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: DragonPhoenixLightningAwesome Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Middlesbrough, North-east England Age: 20 Posts: 2,198 Join Date: Jun 2008	Re: Pirateninja's French Adventure ahah i actually got axicted seeing this thread... Welcome back

15th Aug 2008, 10:38 AM	#7
Mirko Molitva Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Out and about Location: British Columbia, Canada Age: 35 Posts: 10,052 Join Date: Apr 2008	Re: Pirateninja's French Adventure Welcome back! __________________ ~ Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are ~

15th Aug 2008, 11:03 AM	#8
jazzrawr Lover of Loony Lovegood Full Member Gender: Female Orientation: Lesimbean Out Status: I scream it from rooftops Location: Ontario, Canada. Age: 19 Posts: 3,391 Join Date: Feb 2008	Re: Pirateninja's French Adventure YAAY!! Welcome back!! We've missed you terribly!! And the label on the wine bottle made me chuckle. XD Your humorous posts and South Park references have been sorely missed, Holly __________________ <3 You can love people so much... But you can never love someone as much as you can miss them. (...and the lesbians.)

15th Aug 2008, 11:55 AM	#9
Alexander EC Addict Full Member Gender: Male Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Red Hook NY Age: 19 Posts: 2,736 Join Date: Dec 2007	Re: Pirateninja's French Adventure HOLLLLLLLLLLYYYY!! Welcome back

15th Aug 2008, 01:02 PM	#10
Fiorino Fio Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Most people Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Posts: 1,005 Join Date: Jan 2008	Re: Pirateninja's French Adventure Well, I've just gotten back myself, but welcome back! It sounds like you got the hot weather that I missed while I was away in a colder climate. The wine label made me laugh. I'll be sure not to mess with your wine, then. __________________ Why is it that as a culture, we're more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

15th Aug 2008, 01:38 PM	#11
InaRut EC's Nu-Disco Walrus Full Member Gender: IRL Yaoi Character Orientation: (｡◕‿◕。) Out Status: ㅎ_ㅎ Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Age: 22 Posts: 7,111 Join Date: Oct 2007	Re: Pirateninja's French Adventure Bad news Holly. While you were gone Paul sold EC's rights to Fred Phelps and his CRAZZEH Church. So now this is a homosexual lifestyle converstion forum. We are all now learning how to be "Normal" and "Proper to god." Oh and we are now sponsered by Coke Cola who is also sponsering the Olympics. __________________ "The first duty of every Starfleet Officer is to the truth. Whether it's scientific truth, historical truth, or personal truth. It is the guiding principle to which Starfleet is based. If you can't find it within yourself, to tell the truth about what happened, then you don't deserve to where that uniform."

15th Aug 2008, 02:08 PM	#12
panda EC Addict Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Bisexual Out Status: A few people Location: Toronto,Canada Age: 67 Posts: 4,653 Join Date: Aug 2007	Re: Pirateninja's French Adventure Yay!! Pirateninja has returned.

15th Aug 2008, 07:14 PM	#13
Jebs Is back for a while. Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Eh. Dunno. Out Status: -1 Location: DC area Age: 24 Posts: 348 Join Date: Jun 2008	Re: Pirateninja's French Adventure I know you ran to France for a safe haven... but YOU and ME totally have unfinished business. __________________ [Jebs] 10:06 pm: hmm i guess i'll just wear what i normally wear [tylerksub] 10:07 pm: you could do a follow up investigation in assless chaps to see if it changes any

16th Aug 2008, 12:03 PM	#14
nodoubtjunkie Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Pirateninja's French Adventure welcome back =]

17th Aug 2008, 03:23 AM	#15
heatqueen Official #1 fan of Celine Dion Full Member Gender: Female Orientation: Pansexual/Homoromantic bisexual Out Status: Generally whoever asks Location: I travel a lot Age: 20 Posts: 5,703 Join Date: Jan 2008	Re: Pirateninja's French Adventure Yay, welcome back!! I don't know how I survived without you. Glad you had an awesome time though. __________________ Don't drink and drive. You might hit a bump and spill your drink. Co-founder of the 'Sailor Moon Made Me Gay' club...and the lesbians.

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