A nice article in this month’s English Language paper, In Madrid. Online version here. Sorry Jon. I asked for you to be credited for the pic, but no joy.
With the 2006 Mongol Rally only 19 days away, I can’t help but get excited… yet I’m not even going this year. My house mate, however, is. Pete will be driving one of 200 cars to leave Hyde Park on the 22nd of July. What’s more, Pete is following in my wheel tracks. He is part of a team of six taking 3 Austin Minis – Italian Job Style! www.mongolminis.com It is going to be absolute carnage! Talking of monumental road trips, I was reading over Marc’s Landrover magazine while I was back in the UK. I was absolutely fascinated…
The weekend didn’t turn out quite as expected. We turned up at the dive center early to find it closed. 45 minutes later, we got a call from a friend of Philippe/Ana saying where the hell are you. It turns out that we were supposed to go round to the back of the center. They leave the front closed as there is no one to man the shop… So for a good start we missed the first dive. As a form of compensation, the dive center offered us a special trip with two bottles to get a double dive in.…
Stepping off the plane having flown from Krakow to Luton I was welcomed by a wonderfully sunny evening. On Saturday I met up with Nimesh for a lunchtime bite to eat. We ended up eating in a wonderfully British beer garden and chatting over several beers in the sunshine. He’s off to Taiwan for two weeks as part of his increasingly successful career. In the afternoon I headed down to Clapham to meet up with Jon. We spent several hours on the thoroughly crowded common, people watching and chatting over a few tins. On days like these I really want…
Having got back from Zakopane, Espe was suddenly quite ill. She had the same as me the week before but much worse (as it turns out our flat mate in Madrid suffered the same so obviously some kind of virus going around). She spent two days in bed unable to do much more than watch the tennis. Really gutting as she was so excited about this trip and yet she has returned home without seeing Krakow at all. She didn’t even get to hear the trumpet in the main square… We will have to come back. This week I was…
I was joined by Espe on Saturday in Krakow. A lazy day spent avoiding the Pope, although we did have an good meal down in the old Jewish quarter of the city with live music accompaniment. On Sunday we got on the bus down to Zakopane (4 euros for a 200km trip!). A picturesque village at the foot of the Tatra Mountain range. The weather was pretty terrible and the prohibition laws we were trying to escape were also in force in Zakopane. That didn’t ruin our evening though as we found a wonderful log cabin restaurant serving traditional Polish…
Welcomed by blue skies, warm sunshine and full terraces I’m delighted to once again be in Krakow. The beginning of the week was not so great as I was a little ill, but come Wednesday I was back to normal and ready for one of the infamous Cap Krakow nights out. A good meal in Metropolitan followed by far too many beers in a nice courtyard terrace bar and subterranean club. A few more than too many beers for a couple of the managers. One was completely incoherent by the end of the night and another managed to fall up…