{"id":159,"date":"2008-11-25T19:43:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T19:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/?p=159"},"modified":"2016-01-03T16:46:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T16:46:44","slug":"159","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"a trip to the Lower East Side&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: Self<br \/>\nTo: peter Ikenga<br \/>\nSubject: Compliance news<br \/>\nDate sent: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:38:36 -0000<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mt Ikenga<\/p>\n<p>Well, what a morning that was! Blodwyn&#8217;s Taxi Solutions charged an extortionate amount of money. THIRTY FIVE pounds, EACH WAY! If it hadn&#8217;t been essential to get the legal fees paid quickly then I would have waited until the bus was repaired, but sadly that wasn&#8217;t an option.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the Lower East Side of Caernarfon is even rougher than I remembered it from my trip with Aida and the girls when the Russian whelk fleet last put into Bangor. What a night that was, but I digress. The taxi driver wasn&#8217;t prepared to go any further than the Station car park, so while he waited there I was forced to employ the services of a local hoodlum, the improbably named &#8220;Lucky&#8221; Croucher, to act as my guide and minder. He charged 40 pounds and even then muttered darkly about a tip. Really, Mr Ikenga, I sometimes wonder if you and I are the only honest people left in the world.<\/p>\n<p>We eventually found a booth at the back of O&#8217;Riley&#8217;s Market where an unsavoury looking chap agreed to arrange a money transfer. Having been relieved of \u00c2\u00a370 for taxi fares and a further \u00a340 for my guide I was of course now down to \u00a318. I wasn&#8217;t best pleased to discover that the minimum commission on a money transfer was \u00a36.50, but having no choice, I agreed to the deal and have now sent \u00a311.50 to :<\/p>\n<p>OSITA SUNDAY JOHN.<br \/>\n2305 RUE JESSE OWENS 01 ABIDJAN.<br \/>\nABIDJAN &#8211; IVORY COAST.<\/p>\n<p>The reference number is 218365602<\/p>\n<p>I hope this is satisfactory.<\/p>\n<p>Kind regards<\/p>\n<p>Mrs E Trellis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Self To: peter Ikenga Subject: Compliance news Date sent: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:38:36 -0000 Dear Mt Ikenga Well, what a morning that was! Blodwyn&#8217;s Taxi Solutions charged an extortionate amount of money. THIRTY FIVE pounds, EACH WAY! If it hadn&#8217;t been essential to get the legal fees paid quickly then I would have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/?p=159\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;a trip to the Lower East Side&#8230;..&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mr-ikenga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}