I
did spend a summer working in Florida and after being promised cable TV, ‘lots
of channels’ was what my then boss lied to me, but ended up with 20 – 10 of
them were news or shopping channels. The only shows on offer were Jerry Springer
and Roseanne. However the positive
points of my time in the good old US of A - I watched my first Bones episodes
and have good memories of Sunday nights
watching Rock of Love on VH1 (Series 1), it took over my life and then the
lives of my friends who didn’t even know who Bret Michaels was.
It wasn’t all bad living in the sun, having a busy social life and spending my
day off on the beach nursing a hangover with my friends or Monsieur X (it was
the shocking low pay and terrible exchange rate which brought me home). Of
course I have the memories and the photos on Facebook, but even watching TV can
make me think back to the good old days.
My
TV Travel memories.
I did look away from the TV sometimes on my travels.
IBIZA
ER
Box sets 1 and 2, passed around the office, scratched beyond repair especially the
Storm Drain episode. In return I borrowed Shameless Series 1 and 2 – back when
it was good.
PUNTA CANA - Dominican Republic
Armed
with a portable DVD Player, living in a empty apartment in between two brothels I watched ER Series 3, a few
episodes of Prison Break, thinking this looks good and never watched it since
and weirdly Johnny English as it is became Monsieur X’s favourite film that
year.
SALOU, Spain
A
dodgy DVD copy of Desperate Housewives Series 1 where the sound was so low I
had to have put my laptop near my ears to try and listen. And Lost Series 1 and
2, already watched Series 1 before but watched it again with 'Lost Virgin'
Monsieur X and then watched Series 2 together rationing the episodes to two a
night so that we wouldn’t run out of things to watch.
ORLANDO,USA
Rock
of Love – see above and Roseanne when my workmates christened me with my new
name.
CARIBBEAN
Hiding
in my Barbados hotel room, away from the angry guests watching the end of Lost Series 3. Catching up on the Desperate Housewives in a hotel room in St Kitts and the Rock of Love Final in Antigua.
SICILY, Italy
Beautiful view from my apartment balcony, but living on 2 euros a hour and with the flat/work mate from hell, hiding in my room was my only option. I watched
24 Series 1 within 3 days and became addicted to the power of Bauer. Spent most of my office time bidding for Series 2 and 3.
Being
away from my family, cats, home and just as importantly my Sky box, there are a lot
of programme I missed out on and now that I home and bored I have started to catch
up on past shows, such as Cold Case (I’m up to series 3 now) and The Wire
(Series 1). Maybe if I ever have a spare month or two I might try the Sopranos
and Dexter.
My Mount Eta balcony view every morning
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