Thats christmas over, watch out London!

Ok this is a long update so get comfy LOL.

Well christmas was lovely spent christmas day with my mum and had a lovely christmas dinner after opening all my presents from my family, christmas night went to helens where i had my second christmas in one day so it was a great day all round.

Boxing day was slightly different to christmas day, well for one i didn't get any presents although there was plenty of turkey but it was a great day of chilling out before heading off in to Carmarthen town to meet up with a few people for a great night of drinks and partying, or so i thought!

My night started off with a drink in a bar that all towns have got even Kalamaki , yes that traditional british bar the "rose & crown" on entering it was very busy and a nice bar, £5.60 for 2 drinks so again not to bad and a few seats available so the bar itself was fine. The people in this bar all seemed very nice and just out for a good night, so a big thumbs up from kevlar!

On to the second bar "Diablos" cocktail bar, this is the new jewel in the Carmarthen social scene "and our public survey says uuh, uurghh". As i walked in i thought what a lovely decor but a bit cramped. So on to the bar where i thought i would order 2 cocktails. After looking at the wide selection of just 8 cocktails none of which were popular ones i chose 2. After seeing the price of each cocktail £5.50, yes you did read that correct £5.50 so for those no good at maths thats £11 for 2 drinks, i thought i must be getting a gallon of it or having service like the Ritz Hotel, in fact i got neither. So i ordered a Bay Breeze and a Mojito and wow how amazing were these cocktails, its the first time i've ordered a cocktail and its tasted nothing like the cocktail its meant to be, GENIUS! Not only that but its also the first time i've seen Captain Morgans dark rum added to a Mojito with the mint, lime and sugar just thrown in a glass and stirred not even crushed together before going in the glass. My advice, get rid of the cocktails as they also took 3 times as long to make as any other cocktail bar i've been in. Kevlars rating, avoid it.

On to the third bar "The Queens" On stepping in to this bar i thought what a quaint theme pub and that theme being a cross between "The Woolpack" from Emerdale and the local pub in "Heartbeat" but no, thats what the pub was actually like. I don't think it had seen a refurb since Winston Churchill was in power and the TV in the corner of bar i think is well past its analogue sell by date as its remote control was in fact a stick that you pushed the channel buttons with. I was expecting to see Gary Sparrow walk in from "Goodnight Sweetheart" and start to give us a tune on the old piano but my Smirnoff and Sprite was served in a short glass which i like so one bonus point for that. Ideal pub for someone who's an older local remembering when it was all fields or if you got wellies and flat cap.

On to the fourth and final bar (thank god), "The Spread Eagle" now before i even entered this bar i instantly thought to myself this is the position the police put suspects in to pat them down when searching for weapons or drugs!!! As i walked in the woft of stale booze with the hint of sick hit me, so straight away i knew i was entering a classy place. Before i could even say "Hello, i'm Kevin" i was greeted by a wobbling young lady who was a family friend of Helens telling me she was coming on holiday to Zante and putting herself up in my apartment , how kind of her LOL. On to the bar where my shirt sleeves helped to mop up the spilt drink and my vodka was of the cheapest meths variety. I also found i think the only DJ in the world with no sense of music knowledge going from Katrina and the Waves "walking on sunshine" to Kings of Leon "sex on fire" to John Parrs "St Elmos fire" and being as 90% of the people in there were most probably born at the end of the 80's the last song out of those 3 would have been as well known as a book without Harry Potter in it or a written letter or in some cases even a pen. Only go here when your nearly drunk that way you won't care about what the bars like.

So to sum up Carmarthen for a night out in all honesty i'd say go to Rose & Crown then go to another town for the rest of the evening LOL.

The day after boxing day which i guess is bank holiday monday was a lovely day out. I woke up early and got dressed, of course i showered before i got dressed but after i woke as i'm not clever enough to shower while asleep and its difficult to shower when dressed. Out to Swansea we went and off the the cinema at midday to see Sherlock Holmes where i purchased 2 V.I.P. seats, 1 small popcorn and 1 small Zero Coke all for the rip off price of £21.60. On entering the theatre we found to American sized people sat in the seats next to ours with there feast to feed the 5000 stored on one of the seats i had selected. Now when i checked on the booking screen before i bought the tickets at the desk i made sure there was no one either side, in front or behind us who would spoil our viewing by getting in the way or having to hear someone grazing on crisps while slurrping on a Kiaora so the seats the American size couple were in should of been empty. Helen told them that the seat their meal deal for 20 was placed on was in fact ours they said it was taken so not to cause a fuss she sat down the other side of their personal store of pic n mix. 5 mins later a gentleman arrived the other side of them only to tell them that one of them was in his seat to which they then moved their mountain of survival food for 2 hours that would feed a small village in outer Mongolia for a week on to their laps. WHAT THE F*@$! So they lied about the seat was taken just so they didn't have to reach to far in to the many buckets they had but not only that they didn't pay the extra for the V.I.P. seats they were sat in. Its a good job Helen sat closest to them as i would have gone to toilet past them and accidently fallen in their laps. Anyway the film was great best of the ones i've seen this year, good storyline, well directed, well acted and the comedy was very subtle nothing stupid or slapstick, looking forward to the next installment, another big thumbs up from Kevlar!

After the film we went to "La Tasca" restaurant which i loved, we had Tapas and some Sangria so went spanish for a changed and it all tasted so good and will definately go again at some point. Then it was home to crash out for the evening, so in all its been the busiest christmas i've had in years and really enjoyed it and tomorrow i head off to London till the 2nd Jan so i will update when i get back from my invasion, sorry tour of London with a dodgy Danny Kaye Cockney accent.