Dining out brick wall!!

Well, it's official, last night I hit that dining out marathon brick wall!!  I am just so over going out for dinner!!  I went through all the motions, shower, hair done, make up, (clothes on as well....naturally!) and off I went.  I decided to try and see if I could find a pub with the Scotland V. Ireland game on and I had spotted the rugby on a couple the night before on Pub Street, so I headed for them.  Mistake. The food was not that good, and the wine was even less good than that.  I moved from the first table they gave me as it had that eau de toilete smell about it....and I'm not talking perfume.  I think it was the alley way running up the side of the restaurant.  The white wine was not good, so I switched to red.  Which was vaguely better, but was somewhat spoiled when a fly did a Tom Daly into the glass then made a bad attempt at the breast stroke in it!!  To give the waiter his due he did notice me poking about in the glass and asked if something was wrong.  When I said I think I had a fly in it, he did they only sensible thing a waiter should do on such occasions.  He offered to get me a straw to help fish it out!!  Not sure if I was meant to try and suck it out, but I thought that a high risk option so stuck to poking.

The rugby was a non starte,r we were competing with a Man City v Chelsea game and a Newcastle United game.  Although I could swear the latter started off playing Liverpool, but ended up against Southhampton or someone.  Must have been the distraction and trauma of my swimming fly!! Regardless, I figured Scotland's rugby team had no chance against those games, so I left and headed back to the hotel in the hope of finding it on the TV there.  I went via the supermarket to buy myself a bottle of fly-free wine, though not sure why, as I didn't even feel in the mood to drink anymore.  But it just didn't seem right and proper to be watching a game of rugby with a cup of liptons tea in hand!!

So, if you saw the game, then you will not be surprised that my engagement levels were not high in the first half, and I kept toying with the idea of giving up on them and going for a foot massage instead.  But  it was Scotland and in true Scot style we have to hang on in and hope when all hope seems to be lost.  It's what we do best in sport....but hey, it must have been a lucky fly I had in my wine, and against the odds I spent the last 15 - 20 minutes of the game shouting at the TV.  I do hope my neighbours through the adjoining door were out.  The last 5 minutes were torture, but at last, after a false mini celebration when the ref blew for a penalty and not the end of the game, I was jumping up and down celebrating our win!!  Whoppee!!  I now have to watch ever single Scottish Rugby game in Cambodia as it obviously brings us luck. 

So after all the excitement there was no way I was getting to sleep, so off I went for my foot massage to calm me down before bed!  I went to the first one outside the hotel, there are lots of them, but unfortunately it shut at 11 pm and not 12 pm (which most of them do) so I could only get a 30 minute massge instead of an hour.  Initially I was dissaponted, but after 5 minutes in the place not so much.  They seem to have missed something in the concept of massages...i.e. you are there to relax.  They had a big screen on the wall blaring out a National Georgraphic or something channel.  First of all I had to endure poisonus snakes.  But, when that programme finished, it got worse.  Do you know there is somewhere in America (or was it Canada) where there is a river that is so full of flying carp fish it is dangerous to be in the water as the force of them hitting you could knock you out.  No, you didn't know that did you.  Do you care that you didn't know that?  I sure as hell didn't when I was trying to relax getting my foot massage!!  Thank goodness I didn't have to endure the entire programme about flying carp (or was that crap!!).   I happily left after my 30 minutes and headed back to my book and bed, safe in the knowledge people I knew would be out there doing there bit and celebrating our win against Ireland!!