It’s midsummer, just the time when Irish weather goes back to being shite and all your friends are posting holiday photos on facebook from their week in Spain, wearing sandals, sipping sangria and swimming in the sea.That’s fine, who needs a tan? Less risk of skin cancer here anyhow. Sigh.

Just when we most need it Chaos Thaoghire brings you an evening of escapism:

We Apologise For The Inconvenience: Journeys
Wednesday the 18th of August in the Odessa Club

Journeys always make for interesting stories — in fact just last month I shared, to the delight of our attendees, a tale of consuming 2kgs of apricots on a Bulgarian overnight train where the toilet was just a hole over the tracks. I will spare you any details. Travel lends to a variety of experiences, often involving some type of toilet humor, and I do like toilet humor. I suppose journeys can be meaningful in other ways too, but I am still just thinking about my own apricot experience. Perhaps the only thing that stands out as much as the journey itself is the music we associate with our travels. I remember once driving overnight from San Francisco to Seattle and discovering that something had gone terribly wrong in the process of making my awesome road trip mix CD — the only song that had burned was ‘Umbrella’ by Rhianna.  Driving through Oregon with no radio we listened to ‘Umbrella’ over 100 times. To this day I can’t say the word without adding the “ella, ella, ella” to the end, my own personal PTSD. To avoid similar disasters at the next Chaos Thaoghire I am charging you, gentle readers, with the task of choosing our soundtrack — we will compile and test it in advance. Please give us suggestions in the comments — you’re welcome to also explain to us your own musings on what makes the perfect road trip playlist. Please, no Rhianna.

Here is some inspiration, from my favorite road trip movie:

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