It all started on a Friday night getting a little drunk. It then continued by a visit to #sinister. I met zozie-dimitra who said to me: "wouldn't it be a nice idea if I came and visited you in Scotland and then we travelled down to Spain on a train to see Belle and Sebastian? " I thought it did seem a nice idea so said: "ok" I bought an inter-rail pass, ticket for the Benicassim festival, and a new Walkman. When I bought the ticket for the festival. I wondered if the trip would really happen but it felt a nice thing to do. The ticket added extra depth to an impossible dream. A couple of weeks later I skived of work a little early to catch a train to London in order to meet Zozie. We walked for a day and half, collecting blisters, before finding a train to Dundee and after much convincing (gun pointed to head) I convinced Zozie that it is a great place to live. She then went on to visit Glasgow and Edinburgh and decided Glasgow was much nicer (not that I’m bitter or anything!) I had promised my dog that we would go to a picnic… I think she is infatuated with several people and had been going on about how she would kiss them all when we got there. Unfortunately she decided to go swimming and nobody wanted to kiss her back. Around this time I fell of the same chair twice. This has nothing to do with the rest of the story… But “when your legs are black and blue its time to take a holiday” So we started our journey, stopping off at Milton Keynes along the way. Well wouldn’t you? In case you don’t know Milton Keynes has two big attractions: 1) A club where you can play twister on stage 2) KEN! After managing to visit both of these things in one night we caught a train to Paris. There, our plans of taking an overnight train to the north of Spain were disrupted. Instead we managed to get one to Bordeaux even though it was totally in the wrong direction. I stood in front of an open window outside my cabin and watched Paris at night while wind blew in my face... things like that made me glad I didn't just fly. Somehow or other we reached Barcelona early the following evening and in between rushing around buying tickets for the next train and buying food I heard someone shout my name... I looked around and it was Vanessa from sinister... I had never seen her before in my life...weird huh?? And the next day we met more sinister people with whom we to harassed in order to share experiences such as standing at for 4 and half hours in the heat waiting for Belle and Sebastian… or sleeping on the street in Valencia with. And whom we somehow managed not to be with when they did things like play football or teach Stuart Murdoch how to dance. The last few weeks have been amazing, unforgettable and totally impossible without certain people. So thanks to: Zozie for coming up with such a nice idea for a trip Will and Gordon for satisfying my dog’s desires with another picnic Ken for being such a brilliant host Belle and Sebastian for being such a brilliant band And the biggest thanks of all to Honey for setting up this list and making all these things possible. Rachel _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+