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Im travelling around the world, working as i go, living life as much as i can, enjoying everything thing and everyone i encounter. Along the way I capture these moments of fun and beauty and like to share these with whoever is watching.

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Last sleep, last wash, time to go out of this world

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

We’re still in San Francisco eating breakfast in a civilized way, breakfast burrito à la Leigh.

Friday night was great, we drank wine an went out in search of jazz. When we were told it would be $5 cover, Erica didn’t lose heart an pleaded that we are poor back packers, and in we went yay. It turned out the guy must have been high because the girls tried thanking him later and he was far from this planet.
The night was great with random guys jamming out, quite chilled and cheap.

Yesterday was spent getting the penultimate pieces for our preparations for burning man, and I am officially sick of shopping, we’ve done more than enough for the year.

So now we are just enjoying our last hour or two of being indoors. Probably reluctant to leave since it is so cold here in San Fran. But it will be warm where we are going.

The car is so bloated that when mcdonalds were having cars towed from their car park on Haight St we couldn’t be towed, cool maybe, but poor car.
We have almost 150L of water, 20L of alcohol, many bin bags of fancy dress, a little food, a van with new brakes, but the front left wheel is on the edge of falling off. We do have a garage in Reno sourcing us a used part, so fingers crossed we make it to the burn and out again. The can is so low on the suspension that it bottoms out entering and leaving car parks.

So a mission is ahead of us and it looks like it’s going to be a time to never be forgotten, I’ve had enough preparation and am ready to go, let’s have fun.

One night in Kelowna

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Our camp fire is getting greater each time, attracting more new people every day. Which is saying something being that we are very limited in neighbours. But it’s nice.

So for some reason we woke up yesterday to a beer or few, I guess it was to ready up for the England v USA world cup match.

However the previous day whilst about town my wallet dissappeared from our car. I had it out of my pocket to lay on the beach, and later to skate.
Losing a wallet is a big inconvenience. Yes I shouldn’t have kept all of my cards in there, and I won’t. Well I think they are all cancelled now, but a bigger issue is my lack of drivibg licence, so I won’t be driving for a while.
I’ve called up my insurance and I can claim £250 to cover the loss which almost covers it all so I’ll just have to be penniless for now.

So for the football we headed down to a pretty posh campsite across the lake where all of the R.V.s are the size of a bus. It was a modern bar by the water front so quite pleasent.
There isn’t much I can say about the match except that what should have been a fine win was not. Better try next time I hope.

While in the camp we couldn’t say no to €1 showers, and our first proper wash in several days. Mmmmmmm

So after a sleepy drive up to Kelowna we stopped at hemp city to ask about where there was to party, and it seemed that everybody was off in the mountains at a music festival. Well $75 is a bit much to spend on a night out, for homeless, unemployed people so that wasn’t an option.

We drove on out of town a little to find some woods and an abandonned mill behind walmart inhabited by lots of pine martins and a beautiful meadow with hoodoos for a back drop. So camp site found we got some bread, humous and cider and enjoyed the sunset, with the occasional boy racer trying to drift through the car park.

That done we set off on foot Ali g the railway, honing our tight rope walking skills as we went.

In town we got chatting to some random English girls who guided us to a nightclub where we had a soberish, but entertaing dance for a while.

The fun came after our little sit by the waterfront an we gained enough energy to make the hour long walk back to the car.
I Insisted on taking an alternative route back “never go to the same place twice” and a couple of seconds after I stepped out of the road a huge pick up plowed through the car where I had just stepped from, and tore off down the road. An Audi A6 took the worst of it and after we provided the neighbours with our details for witness records we headed off to walk the rest of the way home.
Well to our fascination and mischief there were some machines re-doing the lines on the road. So with little hesitation Malcolm and I set to leaving our mark upon the town and walking down the lines, collecting paint on our feet we ran around the road leaving White foot trails.
Next luck we found a Dominos pizza with 10 minutes before closing, however they refused to open for us. But when there’s a will there’s a way, and I happened upon the idea of making a call and ordering a pizza to be collected so we waited around the corner. 10 mins later and our $7 pizza was done.
Just in time for the road markers to cone back for the other direction. Fun fun.

So we set up tent at 4am beside a stream which made for one of the nicest sounding camps within a city I have ever had.

What better than to wake up to a beautiful morning to set the day going.

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Why is there a great big Belgian helicopter in Regents park?

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

There’s a huge helicopter here in the north of Regents park, why?
I got a new passport the other day, after lots of waiting and hanging around. While waiting I saw G.I. Joe in Peterborough cinema, which wasn’t bad. I did expect the worst, but was quite entertained. I guess I was impressed due to my poor expectations.
Afterwards, I met jab for a pint at charters and we were joined by sean and tessa which was nice. It’s been years since I’ve seen them. Sean’s becoming hippy! And I saw adam. It’s wicked to have time to catch up with people.
Last night hannah, angel and I went out in the east end, cargo. It was cool. Even cooler that the club has a photo booth :) It wasn’t cool that I lost my phone. As it turned out it slipped out of my pocket in the taxi. And luck would have it that the taxi driver answered it and returned it :)
In Angel’s place they have a free gym and pool. So after breakfast we had a quick sauna and jacuzzi, wonderful.
Are these Belgians lost?
Today I’m just chilling. I think I’ll head back up to Cambridge in a bit.
I wish it was sunnier here in England.

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Disappearing act

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

I have scratches all over my arms from play fighting with leslie’s young pitbull. The little beast is lightening fast, I smacked her on the bum and her teeth were around my hand before I could even move. The pair are lovely and cute. Oh and I’ve never seen a dog jump it’s whole body up to human head level. Scary!
So last night I stayed in the hostel, nobody there came out, too hungover. So I met agota and our group grew to maybe fifteen. The shop had no gold beers so we sat and drank beer with a classical concert beside us in deak square. We headed off to corvinteto and I think I wandered off home due to being a bit drunk. So another day feeling a bit rough.
I happened upon a great little underground restaurant earlier, Nepalese. I had some paneer naan and a curry, wonderful.
Since then i’ve been walking, and now I’m up on Buda hill, with a view over all of Pest and the Danube.
A chilled night is in order I think.
I’ve just noticed something missing from this skyline, an abundance of cranes. Any other capital city is usually overrun by construction, but it doesn’t look like that here.

Brain pain

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

I’m in hossegar, just north of biaritz, we can see biaritz and Spain from the beach.
I’m in a world of verbier guys, staying with nico and charlie, another couple of verbs are here too. I bumped into vince my head chef from winter last night. It’s so bizarre, verbier life is everywhere.
It’s so nice to be back by the sea. Yesterday nico and I were body surfing in waves up to 2m. It’s crazy floating up the on the crest, like flying, like superman.
Last night we did the verbier thing and drank loads, so feeling rough now. I still don’t enjoy the meat Market clubs. I’m awake, waiting for these other guys to wake, or at least admit that they are also awake.
Then we can go to the beach. I’ve never even touched a surf board, but joao is a surf instructor, so no time like now to try.
And here I am sleeping on a double bed sized sofa bed, the luxury!

Au sable

Friday, July 24th, 2009

It’s been a nice chilled day today with ian, courtney and no kids. We dropped them off at the activity centre, went to the Market, and had some breakfast. Chinese before midday is bizarre!
We read our books, I bought two today, and now I’m Reading the snow leapard.
We went for a bike ride, I love, though after swapping with ian near the end I all but fell off, damn riding an eight year old’s bike.
So some sunbathing an a glass of red, and we cruise to Bergerac to take louise and cousin to go clubbing, well not us. We had pizza and watched ball room style dancing.
Home now, finished some red wine over discussions of English cinema et al.
It’s amazing how tiring doing nothing is.
Bon nuit.

Capability is not acceptability

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

Today I’m couch surfing in Kerry.
Last night, agota, sebastien and I went out. Being that we started after midnight, we weren’t so drunk to dance to the cheese in the club until it was time to leave, so we had our own wake the house mates party, until seven am.
So today has been a little rough.
I said my goodbyes and drove off. It’s slow going on Irish roads, but I got to the gap of dunloe. It’s beauterific! I worry that I got a bit excited and damaged the underside of the car when we flew through the mountains, however much fun was had.
So now it’s rainy, foggy but not too cold, in cahersiveen. I’m staying with ciaran, a couch surfer, not like other couch surfers that I’ve met. He’s mid life, his wife and kids have just left him, he’s Irish, well travelled and has a huge beautiful house by the sea, and grows his own veg. We had great home made dinner, red wine, cool chats, then went to his sister’s pub. Even better, the next pub had an impromptu gathering of music, guitars, harmonica, fiddle…singing. Awesome.
Finally we did the responsible thing and cycled home in the rain, gees, I don’t know whether it was the booze but the km uphill almost killed me. :)
Well off to sleep to await the next adventures.

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Polish

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Last night I stayed at the sant jordi hostel. It’s supposedly a Big party hostel, but it was Sunday and everybody was suffering a little. I managed to guess a guys accent as pensylvanian, super impressive!
So I went out with 3 canadians, after we watched Italy have it’s ass kicked in the conferate league. I’d never even heard of this tournament!
So we went to the harbour for ricey dishes, introducing them to paella and sangria. Then I acted as their tour guide wandering the streets with beer.
We ended up in placa catalunya, winding up the old men selling beers and drugs.
I got chatting with a couple of glaswigians down for sonar, out of drugs, and we headed to city hall, a club, a sausage fest, and then I went back to the hostel.
Today I’ve just wondered about, trying to check the balance of my Swiss bank account, but with no luck. In gracia I bought a shirt and met a lovely polish girl who’s doing pretty much the same as I, working, travelling.
Now I guess I’ll head to premia as all of the shops are closed.

Driving past Dresden

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

Prague is a crazy ass party. Just how I remember it from previous visits.
The hostel was super cheap, full of Aussies. The pool and sauna certainly made all ace.
Last night we went on a pub crawl, organised by a couple from the states. 120 people, drinking games, shots, beer, wicked. Almost all were americans, bit of a culture shock for me, kinda good introduction to what I’ll get after summer. But damn cool, and Christian said it best, “Americans like to get drunk, and fuck”.
So getting drunk in the van, on the way to Berlin, but never take a taxi in Prague!!!

Water babies

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

We’re still in krakow, but not for too much longer.
We picked up a new hostel, drank a bottle of vodka, and ventured out into town to meet up with some guys doing an organized bar crawl. We saw a local bar, a rock bar, and ended up in a big club. The night was great, but after ian bought a bottle of vodka in the club, all is a bit hazy for all. Vodka is crazy cheap here. Nights out are crazy cheap. Krakow is an awesome place to party!
Yesterday we took our hangovers to the aquapark. We spent 4 hours riding slides and playing tag. No more hangover, and tired out, wet through, we found this campsite nearby.
The night consisted of wine, vodka and cards.
And I did my first load of washing, for free! Four weeks on the road and I was just about out of clean enough underwear.
Things are going great, and the vam’s about to get even tighter with the arrival of ian’s brother Friday in Prague.

 

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