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City of the World's Desire

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, March 29th, 2013 at 11:09 PM (4398 Views)
One week from today (April 5th/6th) I will be travelling away on an aeroplane to the distant, geographically confused land of Turkey. Of course, I won't be the only one going there: I'll be joined by my wonderful girlfriend, EXiku - this will be the first time we actually meet in-person!

We'll be spending most of our time in the city of Istanbul itself, though we've got plans to go around and see nearby places like Ephesus, Pergamum and Gallipoli. About a week will be spent in the ex-Ottoman Empire, and then another week will be spent in jolly England, where EXiku will show me the sights and sounds of her homeland, effectively giving a colonial savage a tour of the mother nation.

In England, we'll go up north to the frigid lands of Leeds, where there's the Royal Armouries Museum. Also, we'll be going on a pretty train trip together, which will be nice. EXiku will be showing me her archery skills, as well, and we'll go south of London to Portsmouth in order to see the legendary ironclad, the HMS Warrior, as well as the HMS Victory, the ship of Horatio Nelson himself. I imagine we might be able to take time to see other places in England, but we'll see when we're there. Most of the time will probably be taken up by me watching her play through the Mass Effect trilogy and forcing her to draw, anyhow.

And if you're wondering: of course, of course, I'll be taking pictures. Every few days or so I'll update a blog on here with nice photos (by myself and EXiku), divided into two sections: one written by her, and one written by myself, each with our respective pictures.

If I'm rather hard to get in contact with over the next few weeks, this is why! I'll definitely enjoy it, and I hope you all will enjoy getting to see the pictures and stuff, too.
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  1. Lycodrake's Avatar
    Congrats to both of you for the awesome opportunity, definitely!
  2. In-N-Out Double-Double & Animal Fries's Avatar
    By me souvenirs bro
  3. Petrikow's Avatar
    When you're in Istanbul, remember that you're standing on the shards of broken Greek dream.
  4. Five_X's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Petrikow
    When you're in Istanbul, remember that you're standing on the shards of broken Greek dream.
    any_province = {
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  5. ZidanReign's Avatar
    send me the bedside picture hue hue hue

    in all seriousness though, wow. You guys are actually making your relationship work and I have gained a bit more faith in humanity again. I'll probably lose it later, but for now it's worth it.

    Congratulations.
  6. Laith's Avatar
    Enjoy all the sights (innuendo non intended but applicable if desired) and have fun.
  7. SeiKeo's Avatar
    literally going to take a vacation to make your gf play videogames
  8. SeiKeo's Avatar
    grats that owns
  9. Matsu's Avatar
    grats and good luck extended to the both of you
  10. food's Avatar
    >Girlfriend
    >First time in person

    Doomed to fail. Estimated time to critical failure: 3 months.

    May be averted if you ship her permanently to 'Murica.
  11. Mcjon01's Avatar
    another week will be spent in jolly England, where EXiku will show me the sights and sounds
    Keep your weird sadomasochistic torture play to yourself, man. TMI.
  12. Bittersweet's Avatar
    McJon, just because Mike lives in England doesn't mean the entire country is sadomasochistic.
  13. Mcjon01's Avatar
    The very act of visiting England is an exercise in masochism. Which means that EXiku is clearly a sadist for inviting him. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not judging them. I just think it's the kind of thing you should go around shoving in other people's faces.
  14. ZidanReign's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mcjon01
    Keep your weird sadomasochistic torture play to yourself, man. TMI.
    Pack of Fags my good man?
  15. Strife ❤️'s Avatar
    Sounds awesome

    You should arrange a Beast's Lair UK meetup. Invite Seika, Mike, and everyone else...
  16. Five_X's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Strife212
    Sounds awesome

    You should arrange a Beast's Lair UK meetup. Invite Seika, Mike, and everyone else...
    We were planning on meeting with Seika in England, but she's going on a school trip to Greece, so we can't meet.
  17. Neir's Avatar
    grats 5, don't blow it DON'T BLOW IT

    also, I hope you like sea bream, because if you like fish, that's what they've got.

    but srs, have fun, turkey's a fascinating place and I'm sure you're going to spend most of the time staring at exiku.
    Updated March 30th, 2013 at 11:11 AM by Neir
  18. EXiku's Avatar
    My poor old laptop is going to be used a lot for the first time in years. I hope it holds out...And then, there's the rather...large number of pictures I'm going to likely end up taking. I wonder if we'll actually manage to cover most places when factoring in the time I spend on photographing stuff.

    Thank you for the well wishes...Five has been extremely patient/tolerant of my freak outs over silly holiday things. I get this way, and it's even worse when I haven't started packing yet...wait...o.O

    Quote Originally Posted by ZidanReign
    send me the bedside picture hue hue hue
    Of Five? That can be arranged.

    Quote Originally Posted by LeopardBear
    literally going to take a vacation to make your gf play videogames
    I can't play video games for too long...because the outside beckons >.>

    Quote Originally Posted by Mcjon01
    The very act of visiting England is an exercise in masochism. Which means that EXiku is clearly a sadist for inviting him. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not judging them. I just think it's the kind of thing you should go around shoving in other people's faces.
    :3

    Five invited himself. I suppose growing up in England certainly does give one an...acquired taste, but I don't think it's that bad...?

    Quote Originally Posted by Five_X
    We were planning on meeting with Seika in England, but she's going on a school trip to Greece, so we can't meet.
    I think Strife wants to say 'Hi'...I noticed you didn't mention yourself in that list, Strife...but of course, only if you're up for that.

    Quote Originally Posted by Neir
    but srs, have fun, turkey's a fascinating place and I'm sure you're going to spend most of the time staring at exiku.
    Compared to all that history, culture and architecture? Nooooo~
    Updated March 30th, 2013 at 08:31 PM by EXiku
  19. Strife ❤️'s Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by EXiku
    I think Strife wants to say 'Hi'...I noticed you didn't mention yourself in that list, Strife...but of course, only if you're up for that.
    Well I don't want to bother you guys, you'll be pretty busy I guess~
  20. RoadBuster's Avatar
    Great that you two will get to meet up! Best wishes!
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