The Traveller
From the pyramids in Giza to the Louvre's Mona Lisa,
and that engineering cock-up, that is the Tower of Pisa.
Portugal, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Spain
I've visited so many more and would do it all again.
My travelling life won't be over and done
Till I cross off one more and that's Shittington.
I have whistled to Whistler, took my nieces to Nice,
saw a bat in the Vatican and the Pope - he's a priest,
driven with dogs in an old camper van
to see Liz in Lisbon, where the four of us swam.
My travelling life won't be over and done
Till I cross off one more and that's Shittington.
I've been to Australia, I've fed kangaroos,
seen crocs in a box in the poorest of zoos,
been with my mates, to the States, where it's bonkers,
In the land of the midnight sun, I played conkers.
My travelling life won't be over and done
Till I cross off one more and that's Shittington.
So where is this place that they call Shittington,
We have daft UK names but this is the one,
I must get there quick before I hang up my boots
With my Lego and slippers and finally grow roots.
My travelling life won't be over and done
Till I cross off one more and that's Shittington.
Oh, well then I. hope you’ll not be crossing that Shittington any time soon. So much lovely travel experience, Hobbo. I’d love to hear more about it all.
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so where is it, then?
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Bedfordshire.
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Lol. Sounds like a Monty Python joke. Shittington in Bedfordshire. A pooh in the cot is worth two overseas.
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😂…or there is one in Dorset called Shitterton. What were these town planners thinking?
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maybe the job of naming was given to Sir Isat Ondunny.
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😂 Ah yes, of course.
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Must be where Dick came from.
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🤣 very good!
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Lisbon was delightful! Nice was tranquil
Just my kind of poem 😁
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And my kind of follower, so we are quits! 💖
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👍😁
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Oh, well then I. hope you’ll not be crossing that Shittington any time soon. So much lovely travel experience, Hobbo. I’d love to hear more about it all.
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We have been very fortunate to be able to travel quite a bit, that’s very true. 😂
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