Trip to Dover

Hey all!

Just got back from a day trip to Dover. It's about a 2-hour drive from my house in South-West London, by taking the M25. An awesome, but long journey. You can take a nap and wake up 10-minutes before arrival; lovely if you're a passenger, but not so much if you're the driver.

Upon arrival, we went straight to Dover Castle, which is an incredible piece of history with so much to do. Too much to cover in one day. One thing I have to say, is that I hate the people who built it, because there are just too many stairs going up, and when you're checking out the tunnels there are just too many incredibly steep walkways. Plus it's dark and I almost tripped and fell over, if it hadn't been for my brother who grabbed me from behind. I was also reprimanded by an old man and his female companion to be more careful, because I could have broken my neck.

We plan on going a second time and covering a lot more during October, which is when they're holding archery; a sport I have had my heart set on since as far back as I can remember. We may also be dragging my friend, Bhavna, along too. Upon deciding to call it a day around 4pm, my mum and youngest brother went to check out information on joining the Heritage Membership, which grants free access to Heritage Landmarks and half-price on certain events. This was suggested by a friend of my mum's, who's a plumber and does work on her houses, that we ran into while returning from the Castle Keep.

My mum then took us to dinner at a Chinese Restaurant, and then took us for a walk along the coast. It's really nice and peaceful, and we plan on making a proper holiday soon; you know, staying at a hotel and stuff, because there's just so much to do and see.

We then headed home and stopped over at Twickenham's BlockBuster, because my youngest brother wanted to get a game. He got 50 Cent: Bulletproof for the X-Box. I don't have to express my feelings about this, other than I really hate these kinds of games. They make idols out of ordinary humans, who don't appear to have any real good qualities about them. They play on racial stereotypes, and are chock-full of bad and disgusting language and highly promote violence against people. It's a game that only my youngest brother would call "cool" and buy. Want to know something completely retarded about the promotion of the game by his truly (50 Cent)? I read that he said that even though the game is rated 18 (for good reason, I might add) he still wants children of all ages to buy and play it...

Anyway, today's Sunday, so as per my promise I checked out Shortpacked! at TNI and found that you have to click "next" to get to the new comic. They have an archive with the newest comic at the top, and so I went and changed the link to reflect this.