Bob & Betty go British

30 seconds of fame

Rather than start this post with the fact that we went to another motorcycle race on the weekend I thought I should tell you about my 30 seconds of fame. There I was sitting amongst the crowd at the race when an Italian gentleman came and sat next to me and asked if I wouldn't mind answering a few questions. I noticed that he was with another Italian gentleman with a TV-type camera. I agreed and he asked me where we were and why we were here. I tried to be funny but that didnt work. Rather than saying that we were here for the Superbike World Championship, I said, "Oh, something about motorcycles". Somehow I don't think my humour translated so well into Italian. So we did another take and this time I said what he told me to say. So who knows why he picked me, whether I'll end up on TV in Italy or if I'll end up on a DVD some day. Hard to tell. All I know is that I think Robert was a little disappointed that they didn't interview him. But then he's not a pretty girl ;-)

So I sat in the sun and got burnt having sweated off the sunscreen in the heat. The bikes went round and round the track. Troy Bayliss did good (he's one of the Australians)- first in the first race and second in the second race. The favourite of the English didn't do so well in the first race so the guys sitting next to us didn't bother to turn up for the second race. They probably went somewhere to drown their sorrows.

I think I took some photos.

I'm afraid that our weekend was a little ho hum. We didn't feel so well on Saturday so we had a rather quiet day. Just went to the library, did house work...

Next weekend should be better - going to Carlisle, tramping through the lake district. Finally, some exercise! Looking forward to it.

posted by Elisabeth @ 8:20 PM