Hey folks,
An early email this week because I’m off on a bike trip tomorrow and ceebs bringing my laptop.
I had to work 2 days this week, but other than that I was on holiday. My mission was clear: work out what I want to do with my life. Well, after lots of time sitting in cafes drinking frappes, eating baklava and having a big old think about what I really want to do, I’ve finally got a plan:
Plan A: Marry Into Money
- Find very rich woman
- Court and seduce
- Propose and marry
- Live life of leisure from a yacht in the mediterranean
Plan B: Find a Patron
- Find rich old person with interest in the arts
- Sit with them in their ancestral home and wax lyrical about ancient ideas of England, class and heritage
- Write them a poem every 6 weeks in exchange for a generous allowance
- Live life of leisure from a yacht in the mediterranean
Plan C: Set myself up as a charity
- Create emotive advert about how there is only 1 James Howell-Jones left in the wild and for £5 a month etc etc.
- Establish a base of donors
- Live life of leisure from a yacht in the mediterranean
Plan D: (truly last resort stuff at this point) Establish myself as a writer/journo, initially in the cycling niche
- Email a load of freelance writers and get a bit of a network started
- Write a shit ton of articles and pieces about interesting topics, post on website
- Send out some pieces in the hope of getting a few guest features
- Eventually make a name for myself
- Live a life of leisure from a yacht in the mediterranean
A belt and braces plan, if you ask me. I’m reasonably confident at least one of those plans will succeed. We shall see.
This week has given me a sweet sweet taste of the life of leisure, but it has also given me an insatiable taste for frappes and baklava. Both are extremely tasty and addictive. I now wake with a 1 track mind for sugar and caffeine that sees me prowling the Vasiliki waterfront desperately asking, ‘έχεις μπακλαβά?’ (do you have baklava – everyone does frappes so no need to ask)
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the n streets at dawn looking for an angry fix…
I’ve also windsurfed or wing foiled loooadds, and I’ve attached a video of me doing both, so you can see how much of a legend ya boi is on a board (lol jk). Attempted my first aerial 360s on Thursday and Rob got a few of my attempts on camera.
Next week, I’m going further afield and seeing some more of Greece. First Kefalonia, then Athens. Will be fun fun fun.
Love
James
