Just been sent this link by Nina… “For all us jet setters” www.worldsbestbars.com Apart from the fantastic 60th floor bar in Bangkok that will have to be visited (hopefully next Jan/Feb), I’ve been sent the link in perfect time in order to prepare for the coming weekend which I will spend in Berlin… As they say in EasyJets latest tacky slogan, “Come on lets fly!”
You lot seem to like my recepies, so here comes another. I got the idea from “The Circle of Friends Cookbook” (something put together by a colleague of my sister) but changed it based on my Thai cooking experiences. Stuff to cook Trout or Rainbow Trout Green Pepper Mushrooms Potatoes Stuff for the Marinade / Sauce 1 stalk of lemon grass 2 cloves of garlic 1 small red chilli 1 Challot or small onion A thumb of ginger Black Pepper Corriander Seeds Soya sauce Olive Oil Juice of 1 lemon Grated rind of the lemon Chop and grind the onion,…
Its Friday afternoon, which can mean only one thing… surfing the web. Just spotted the Mr Scruff website in my bookmarks. It’s a site I’ve never had a good look around before but having done so I have to say its absolutely fantastic in all its pie eating, tea drinking, funktastic goodness. The flash animations are based entirely on Mr. Scruff’s unique sketching style, yet at the same time everything you might or might not want to know about the man himself is there. Check it out: www.mrscruff.com Even if you don’t like his music (a crime in itself), his…
On this, my third ‘business’ trip to Poland I decided to make the journey from Krakow to the peaceful mountain resort of Zakopane. Just finding my own way to the bus station and getting to Zakopane off my own back was so exhilarating. Wandering around the village looking for my hotel brought back great memories of traveling and a huge smile to my face. I spent Sunday on the slopes, gradually improving my limited abilities on a snow board. The was my first experience of really soft deep snow, much better for falling over, but a different technique required. I…
Off to Cambridge for the eagerly awaited First Meeting of the People of the Rickshaw Run. We arrived in England to be greeted by a 35 minute queue to get through customs. Things got worse when our luggage turned up damaged… We then had to wait 25 minutes for someone to turn up at the baggage claims desk. We got to the hire car center an hour late to find the staff running around in a panic as they had run out of cars… This wasn’t as bad as it sounded as I was given an upgrade from a Mongol…
It seems everyone is moving to, visiting or wants to go to Australia. With both Gareth and Dan migrating there over Christmas, Philippe talking of moving there if Ana gets a scholarship and Marc taking a three week holiday in preparation for moving there in a years time. Anyway, I checked my mail this morning to find that Marc had been kind enough to send me one of his holiday snaps… As for myself, I’ve been having far much less fun. The road works continue. The devils drill (imaging a 5 story high black and decker drill) has returned and…
Yes, it’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally finished writing the gallery for this site (there are plenty of ready made galleries out there, but I much prefer to write my own, tailoring it to my needs and keeping active with php programming). At the moment there are not many photos up. In fact there is only one gallery, and that is from Christmas Eve 2004. Yup, the pics are over a year old, but Berry, Natash and Phil were harrasing me for these. The gallery will grow in the forth coming months. I aim to include photos…
I booked Friday off work and headed up to the sierra north of Madrid for a day on the slopes. The Valdesqui resort is small but perfect for a days skiing or snowboarding for beginners and intermediates. At the weekend it is so packed that you have to queue for every lift, the slopes are packed and collisions are common, hence going on a weekday. (Take a close look at the Where Is Andy header image above. Look at the left hand side below the “Where” and you can see several lines linking down to a central point. That is…