Tuesday 31 January 2012

A message from Scottius Duffus Maximus (aka loser)

I opened the emails today and found that Scott had entered a competition as me and we recieved the following message:

Congratulations! We’ve selected your entry as the winner for the Roman Gladiator School Giveaway. We hope you and your husband get to re-enact his favorite gladiator movies on your trip!

And here is the text from the tour detailing what the prize includes, plus the terms and conditions:

During your two-hour lesson, your gladiator instructor will teach you how to fight with authentic weapons used by the gladiators of ancient Rome. Lessons are led by members of the Historic Group of Rome who are experts in the re-enactment of Roman life and gladiatorial combat.

You'll be dressed in a traditional gladiator tunic, belt, leather protective glove and rudis (training sword), and you can let your imagination run wild as you play like Spartacus for a day, fighting off ferocious lions and sword-wielding warriors! Finally, learn the basic techniques of gladiatorial sword fighting and participate in an optional gladiatorial tournament, with the winner receiving a prize. Everyone receives a certificate of accomplishment.

My ticket is going cheap (as if i would do this!!)  Geoff, Jared, Matt any of you want to fly to Rome for the day and go to Gladiator school with Scott, and dont worry every one else there will be plenty of photos. 

Happy Dawdling

Scottius and Jene

Monday 23 January 2012

The Great Wall of Ice

Jen's biggest concern is not flying Air China, meeting feral McIntyre children or being stuck with me for five weeks. Each day starts with a check of the weather in Beijing which has been fluctuating between - 13 and - 3. I keep telling her that I don't know of any tourist pictures with snow on the great wall and it also means very small queues to the best attractions.

Saturday 21 January 2012

Welcome to the Duffus Dawdles

We have created this blog to record all of our Dawdles from our 1 day visits to Windsor to our 5 week overseas European Vacation.

If you can't come with us on our journeys we hope you will enjoy our adventures through this blog.

Happy Dawdling

Scott and Jene