Parklife

I'd be hard-pressed to remember a single favourite childhood summer. Looking back from where I now stand, they are a blur of jumbled memories. But every year without fail, my family spent a couple of weeks somewhere in the Med on a typical British package holiday. Kids from various European countries awkwardly thrown together around resort swimming pools, expected to make friends and have fun. Girls and Boys by Blur came out in the year of probably the last of these family summer holidays and brings back memories of sticky dance floors and holiday flings. Du bist sehr schön, indeed…

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