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Post by buster on Oct 24, 2008 18:41:15 GMT
Not including nights on a cold train station bench having missed my connection home. Or, waking up at Totnes to find the train & station in darkness.
Newton, Torquay, Ipswich, Amsterdam, Middlesbrough, Grangemouth & Suffolk
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Post by Dave on Oct 24, 2008 18:44:50 GMT
Not including nights on a cold train station bench having missed my connection home. Or, waking up at Totnes to find the train & station in darkness. Newton, Torquay, Ipswich, Amsterdam, Middlesbrough, Grangemouth & Suffolk buster How long did you live In Amsterdam buster? won't ask what job you were doing, did you get to watch Ajax and If so at what stadium. |
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Post by merse on Oct 24, 2008 19:17:35 GMT
How long did you live In Amsterdam buster? won't ask what job you were doing,  Window dresser?  |
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Post by buster on Oct 24, 2008 19:53:23 GMT
just under a year. Should have been studying but somehow convinced my college that it was employment appropriate to the sandwich element of my course.
It was a glamourous life. Started off as a cleaner, seemed like I spent most of the time with my hands down a toilet or throwing away someones untouched sarnies. Puzzled me that, had visions of an unsuspecting partner preparing them the night before not knowing that every lunchtime was spent in the company of someone else.
Progressed on to an IBM factory in Amstelveen.
Yes watched Ajax. Luckily in the old stadium remember jesper olsen pre man utd helping to destroy NAC. Great little stadium. Very relaxed no trouble.
Ironic really that the people I worked with labelled us Brits as hooligans, little did they know they`d follow suit.
Strange thing happened on the way home after a game. I was standing in a tram when from behind me the python yorkshire man sketch was unfolding complete with accents. I chuckled and turned around expecting to see some Brits only to find a group of Dutch lads.
25 years have passed but I still look back with fond memories of a great place with some weird people.
Merse - no chance, not with my knees. But for a wide eyed lad only just out of Devon ( I had the equivalent of windermere behind one ear and loch ness the other) it was educational.
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Post by Dave on Oct 24, 2008 19:59:51 GMT
Amstelveen Is where Rolf Lives and where I stayed, sure Rolf will know the company you worked for,If It Is still there. The red light district Is sure an education, I went there with Rolf he had to keep pulling me away from the doors.
Not that I wanted to go in, but as I watched and they did those things that girls have never done to me In Torbay, I was hypnotized and the wave Of the hand had me walking to the doors. ;D
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Post by Dave on Jan 2, 2009 0:29:45 GMT
Stu Is that Yarcombe the one Of the a30? past Honiton, If It Is you will know the pub there, I delivered there once, was at the bar collecting the money and did my legs In badly, on the foot rail that runs around the bottom Of the bar. That's the one. My Dad was the local bobby but i never went in the pub as i was only 3 when we left. I've been back to visit the church and look at the police house where I was born. The trouble I go to Stuartb just for you mate, as you have never been inside the pub in the village where you were born, I bring the pub to your PC in Wales      |
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Post by daveshaw on Jan 2, 2009 5:12:25 GMT
Well, i thought i'd chuck my bit in too. Born in Nigeria, moved to england when i was 3. Joined my grandparents in Paignton. I was 8 when my dad 1st took me to plainmoor. A night game v Shrewsbury whihci we won 3-1. I was hooked! Spent most of my time in the west country, N. devon, somerset and Torquay until i hit my 40s and turned into a cliche. Midlife crisis led me overseas to australasia and india. After narrowly escaping the tsunami i settled in Thailand and now work in Phuket in fractional real estate. The next move will either be Bali or Dubai. I never intend to return to england unless it's in a box! I don't think there are any other gulls around here.  |
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Post by stuartB on Jan 2, 2009 14:10:03 GMT
That's the one. My Dad was the local bobby but i never went in the pub as i was only 3 when we left. I've been back to visit the church and look at the police house where I was born. The trouble I go to Stuartb just for you mate, as you have never been inside the pub in the village where you were born, I bring the pub to your PC in Wales fantastic job Dave, thanks. That's cheered me up as I'm stuck in work on my own |
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Post by scottbrehaut on Jan 2, 2009 14:20:28 GMT
Interesting figures, 40.9% Of those who have voted live In Devon while 40.9% live elsewhere In the UK. 9% In Europe 9% In the rest Of the world. I have worked out the four In the rest Of the world, but can't work Out the four In Europe. So can you make yourselves known  Sorry, I meant to respond to this when you posed the question above Dave, but forgot!! I answered "in Europe" as I didnt really know where else to put it - Guernsey is not part of the UK, and not part of the EU - we are a Crown Dependency, and our "sporting stars" etc would represent the UK if they were ever needed (like a couple of our athletes have done so in the past), and of course, MLT played for England....maybe in hindsight I should have picked both Europe and the UK, but then it doesnt let you does it? Us Channel Islanders are just odd I suppose!! |
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Post by graygull on Jan 3, 2009 4:42:09 GMT
Us Channel Islanders are just odd I suppose!!
So glad you have seen the light scotty.
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Post by seventyseven on Jan 4, 2009 11:45:07 GMT
Torquay > Penshurst > Chiddingstone Causeway > Fordcombe  |
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Post by ajaxgull on Jan 4, 2009 19:27:43 GMT
Kingsteignton, boring I know but just Kingsteignton I am afraid nothing exotic !!
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Post by Dave on Jan 4, 2009 19:29:43 GMT
Well with your user name I was expecting Holland at the very least ;D still I seem to remember you have some good friends who are dutch, just like me  |
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Post by merse on Jan 4, 2009 21:05:35 GMT
Well with your user name I was expecting Holland at the very least ;D still I seem to remember you have some good friends who are dutch, just like me  ..................and there was me thinking " Ajax Gull" was a toilet cleaner! |
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Post by jond on Jan 4, 2009 21:48:02 GMT
I have worked out the four In the rest Of the world, but can't work Out the four In Europe. So can you make yourselves known Only 2 months late Dave, but better late than never I suppose. I live in Paris, and a couple of months ago I was having a meal in a restaurant and discovered the person sitting next to me was another Gulls fan who also works in the city! It was a bit of a trek to get to the game yesterday but well worth it. It was my first visit to plainmoor for a while as I normally fit trips back to the UK with away fixtures. I have always found the atmosphere on the Popside to be non existent but yesterday was probably the best I can remember. |
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