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June is known as Gay Pride Month, and surely many straight folk might not yet know why. Dust off the history book, if you want to know why gay pride is celebrated on the last Sunday in June, here’s the…

So James had some free time and gave this site a much needed freshening. It’s now running on Word Press instead of Drupal. The pic at the top is very “me” but I’ll see if I can put one of…

We’re baaack. Smooth travels since we last spoke 🙂

Here is a link to the previously mentioned tapas restaurant where we ate on Friday night. Turns out they have locations all over the UK. We passed one on Saturday in London.

Earlier on Saturday, we also visited a place called Watergate’s. I didn’t learn until later that it is an old crypt of some sort (wonder if ‘bat and Dunc are aware!). The ceilings were really unique (have a close look at the photo in the link). Neat place! We only popped in for a drink.

Dinner on Saturday night, after the brief rest mentioned in the last entry, was at a place called Dutton’s. The food was okay but the company was great. Two friends of ‘bat & Dunc’s caught up with us, Mark and Gareth. They both seemed very nice, but unfortunately it is difficult to get to know people very well in the span of a few hours over dinner and then being in a noisy bar. However, they (as well as Neil) have been given engraved invitations to come visit us in the States, assuming that Immigra will let them in, since they are nasty foreigners. More on that later.

After dinner, we set out for Club Six T Nine. The name is very indicative of the type place that it is. Sadly (or happily, however you want to view it) this establishment is about 4 doors down and across the street from ‘bat & Dunc’s. They said they have literally had people they had never met follow them home, thinking the party was moving there – not that they go there very often. It’s geared to the younger set, but this is where we spent our evening – the up side was its proximity and also it was more economical…given that the US peso is now worth about 1/50th of a UK pound, imbibements were a bit more affordable. Time flies when you’re having fun…we ended up there until it closed – whatever time that was – we just sat around chatting about life in general.

Had a pretty nice weekend. Friday started off with our usual coffee, which is always enjoyable. Tried a new Mexican place, Cristina’s, that just opened up. Brian M and Paul came with. It was okay – better than that crappy Posado’s but not as good as Hacienda. James liked it better because it wasn’t as spicey.

Saturday was pretty lazy – I wanted to do some geocaching but I thought it was a little cold (50) and it was meant to be warmer Sun. I ended up puttering away most of the day and then we decided at the last minute to have steak and we had Ian over while Bobby went to taste some pianos or something (read his blog to find out more). I have to say, I can grill a pretty awesome steak and it’s about as good as some of the pricey restaurants. I always enjoy it with mushrooms, bleu cheese and red wine – it’s a fantastic combination of flavors! We then went to see “In Good Company” with Dennis Quaid and Topher Grace – pretty good.