Ice cold in Alex...

[robjh]

It wasn't worth waiting for .....

Well, possibly not till 3 am.

On that note, lager, 3 am? Is this supposed to be a work trip?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Well, possibly not till 3 am.

On that note, lager, 3 am? Is this supposed to be a work trip?

It is .... 3am was when I arrived at the hotel from the Airport after flying from Heathrow via Istanbul. I bloody needed it!

 

[Globalti]

I tried Istanbul on my last trip as the price was good. Didn't like the airport much; it was hot and full of stressed travellers rushing to catch connections. I'll stick with Schiphol or CDG or Frankfurt. Most of my trips are in a southerly direction so I don't appreciate a long easterly dogleg as with Emirates, Qatar or Turkish, though that's not so bad.

 

[ColinJ]

Drinking lager is my only pleasure when I'm stuck in some African hotel, bored out of my skull. You can drink yourself into a stupor but it doesn't do much for your fitness. My regular cycling buddy recently confirmed that hotel gym equipment being as horrible as it is, there's no incentive to exercise so all you can do is crack open another bottle and count the hours until that lovely silver bird takes you home on Friday.

How about starting a bodyweight exercise programme - EXAMPLE? (You are probably going to want a ground floor room if you are going to be jumping about like that!)

 

[Globalti]

Ah! That might not work because the only exercise I do ever get is occasionally walking up the hotel stairs, which is quite a tough cardio-vascular workout at altitude in Johannesburg or Addis Ababa!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I recon a large glass of this

http://www.oldspeckledhen.co.uk/

goes down a treat on a hot day after a long ride

 

[Fab Foodie]

I recon a large glass of this

http://www.oldspeckledhen.co.uk/

goes down a treat on a hot day after a long ride

Originally from the Morland Brewery in .... Abingdon!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Ah! That might not work because the only exercise I do ever get is occasionally walking up the hotel stairs, which is quite a tough cardio-vascular workout at altitude in Johannesburg or Addis Ababa!

True, I tried it J'burg .... seemed too much like hard work .....

 

[Dayvo]

Like a Hyde Park floozy, who's down on her luck.

John Mills knew what he was doing!

 

[Fab Foodie]

John Mills knew what he was doing!

Didn't he just .... but then Mr Smooth came along ....

 

[RoubaixCube]

wanted to rewatch this movie again after reading this thread this morning. disappointed its not on amazon prime video.

 

[glenn forger]

John Mills knew what he was doing!

That's a publicity still, you don't see that in the film. I would have remembered.

 

[Dayvo]

That's a publicity still, you don't see that in the film. I would have remembered.

There's this, too.

I don't remember it, either, and I've seen the film seven times.

 

[glenn forger]

Deemed too racy by the censors, Sylvia Syms' cleavage, seen here in a posed publicity still, was covered up in Ice Cold in Alex

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...ce cold alex publicity still cleavage&f=false

 

[Dayvo]

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=me-aAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT334&lpg=PT334&dq=ice+cold+alex+publicity+still+cleavage&source=bl&ots=DT26RnLhWq&sig=XvAUKRR4Fljmr4A5_zbWVKYPEJE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwio3vvFssbOAhVMLMAKHYrFBm8Q6AEILzAH#v=onepage&q=ice cold alex publicity still cleavage&f=false

Yeah, I've done the googling, too.