TCB: happy jeans contest

[volvo240thebest]

Hi guys, today the TCB's and I were in Verona for work and we were lucky enough to have some time to kill in one of the raddest places in the country!

We started off with a great meal and great wines with some Veronese friends.

Risotto all'Amarone

Great selection of salami and prosciutto

Ripasso and Amarone were great, wines from Valpolicella are up there in my favorites

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[volvo240thebest]

Then I wandered around for an hour or so in the centre of Verona surrounded by the beauty

Here we are

Have a great week end lads!

Edited June 19, 2015 by volvo240thebest

[Cucoo]

Great pics, but you should clean your lens, man

[volvo240thebest]

Yeah only after taking most of the pics I noticed the lens cover was dead dirty haha!

[Paul T]

Hey, I love Verona. My 1800S broke down there, regulator burned out, I spent a fabulous afternoon with a fella who was rewiring a Porsche 360 and various lambrettas.

 

Got a new regulator for about half the price it would have been in the UK. Many of my breakdowns in that car have been great fun... especially the time I had to be towed onto a car ferry to San Sebastian.

[Maynard Friedman]

You're still Basquing in the glory of that!

[garden gnomes in space]

Great pics, but you should clean your lens, man

 

 

Yeah only after taking most of the pics I noticed the lens cover was dead dirty haha!

Its actually the sensor that needs a  cleaning

[volvo240thebest]

some friendly sufu faces made it again into the TCB blog!

http://happyjeans.jp/tcb/2015/06/25/8861

[Paul T]

So, what beauty spots do we have to compare to fair Verona? 

 

I'd actually put aside my TCB in advance of a wash, but donned them for a trip to Whitstable - a lovely town in Kent, fast becoming gentrified... but I guess that probably started with the Romans, who built a beautiful fort nearby, and invaded Britain mainly for the oysters, I believe. Whitstable is a great place for them, they have their own native.

 

In the days I was on salary I'd eat at the slapup restaurants there... now I"m freelance it's usually crab sandwiches on the beach - which is every bit as good. THey come from a lovely old restaurant called Wheeler's; pictured is one of their beautiful mini crab and prawn tarts. Didn['t have time to photograph anything else from our selection as it disappeared so quickly.

 

 

nipper in his Uniqlo Kaihara...

 

 

 

 

Me wrestling for supremacy with pooch....

 

[Paul T]

Now, in traditional Brit seaside fashion, the nipper wanted to visit an amusement arcade. THe local one had closed down, so we visited a nearby town called Herne Bay.

 

Now, if Whitstable is being gentrified, Herne Bay is slowly deteriorating (while its denizens get fatter and fatter). Does Italy have somewhere with this sense of style, I ask you?

 

This is the parade of shops facing the beach: 

 

 

 

amusement arcade: machines date from, what, the 80s?

 

 

This Georgian memorial demonstrates this was once a thriving town...

But no longer...

 

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[Paul T]

Locals have maybe visited the chipshop too often

 

 

But at least the previous guy  was actually mobile! There are a lot of these around...

 

 

I noted this trendy shop a coupla visits ago. He actually had some beautiful Tootal dressing gowns but only in huge sizes!

Whaddya think, is this jumper really me?

 

 

 

THey say some people come to these sad, neglected seaside resorts to die. That's what happened to the creatures in the windows of Vic's boutique, anyway...

 

As a final sign-off from this unique town; these are some of the prizes from the Amusement Arcade...

 

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[Maynard Friedman]

Now, if Whitstable is being gentrified, Herne Bay is slowly deteriorating (while its denizens get fatter and fatter).

As the residents injure themselves attempting to carry their extra bulk around, the local council is considering changing the name to Hernia Bay.

[Paul T]

Now we're all feeling uplifted - here's my lovely jeans, just before their latest wash, now the sun has finally arrived. Post-wash pics soon I promise.

 

[volvo240thebest]

F*****g hell Paolo your pair is already glorious, I'd vote for you if contest would end now. How many washes so far?

I'll get up some pics of my seaside village for a comparo! Not even pics of the local shipyard construction site will approach the remarkable level of bleakness of your seaside uk villages! UK wins this time haha!!!

[garden gnomes in space]

great update Paul.  I used to spend hours playing that Final Fight arcade game.  Brings back memories.  

[ah_long]

TCB June 30 by 6u07, on Flickr

 

TCB June 30 by 6u07, on Flickr

 

TCB June 30 by 6u07, on Flickr

 

TCB June 30 by 6u07, on Flickr

 

TCB June 30 by 6u07, on Flickr

[garden gnomes in space]

jesus, I quit!

[oomslokop]

   

[volvo240thebest]

here's another serious contender.. now I really want to see an update from Jared Lee (where are you?!?). His pair was just every bit as promising as ah long's and pault's.

despite all the hard wear I can put into my pair I have to face the fact the jeans are so loose fitting on me that I'll never get that kind of defined whiskers. my waist is just too big compared to my thighs.

oh well, fuck it! I'll keep it going and we all see at the end of the journey!

[ah_long]

Some food from my recent layover in Shanghai

 

IMG-20150627-WA0031 by 6u07, on Flickr

 

IMG-20150627-WA0043 by 6u07, on Flickr

 

IMG-20150627-WA0041 by 6u07, on Flickr

 

IMG-20150627-WA0037 by 6u07, on Flickr

 

IMG-20150627-WA0039 by 6u07, on Flickr

[Paul T]

Woah! Might have to terminate my layoff!

 

And beautiful crustaceans too.

 

Here are mine post-wash. Got to think about how I repair those pockets as they're fraying right thru.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 30, 2015 by Paul T

[ah_long]

wow, those combs and texture

[Bobbo]

Oh man, if I didn't already have a pair I would buy a pair right away. Stunning stuff gents!

 

Might postpone my update from Gothenburg, Norway and Stockholm a little now, haha. Sucks to post after you guys, hogging all the limelight! 

[volvo240thebest]

It's hard to come after paolo...

Here's where I am at the moment..

[volvo240thebest]

Couple extra iPhone pics from today

[aho]

Unreal progress but really speaks to the fabric we're dealing with...great updates everyone, I believe I've just been lapped in this race yet again!

[volvo240thebest]

http://happyjeans.jp/tcb/2015/07/01/8923

[garden gnomes in space]

some artsy-fartsy all indigo everything cross posted from my IG account.  

 

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[Sugar Mountain]

Man alive... Those two pairs above are insane. Excellent work lads!

[bradl]

Wow long, you definitely have the pair to beat but Paul isn't far behind. Two amazing pairs.