Author: me

London town, met some fantastic people. went to some great parties, drank cider… london. how i hate loving you.

gee look mom i’m in london! it’s the london tower of bridge shire or something.

pretty cool?

summer in london.

camping with school friends in cornwall…

here’s me
this is me
here i am
there he is
the siberian tiger – the most powerful of all the cat family
mmmm bodymassaaage
she misses me
just makin a rollie
come over here i’ve got no pants on
cider day
cave hole
beer coats
cider vests
truth or dare
i just want to ride my moootooorcycle

and many other flanannagens.
for all the pictures click here.

raise your glasses to the rawlins administration for the best week money can’t buy.

Footnote: It’s a Flanannagen: Where the situation is better than the explanation. i.e. ‘You had to be there…’

i’m home. england is beautiful. my bed has never been so comfy.

Nearly stayed forever on the island, but i’ll be back. back in bangkok today, no illegal gambling this time, so i got drunk with the locals instead!

all Thailand pictures below

extract from email to bei

i’ve found the best beach. i was going to carry on traveling but
just like all of my new friends… there seems like little point
going somewhere when it’s going to be worse than the place you are.

there is a funky little bar in the corner of the beach. nice bunch of people just hang around and play chess and frisby, get high, drunk etc. no prostitutes hassling you. no annoying people tugging at your shirt trying to get you to buy some thing.

it’s called tong noi pan, ko phangan, but i’ll give you directions
when you get here.

the food at the bar is amazing, and it all goes on your room bill
with your drinks. 3 nights accommodation, 3 or 4 joy meals a day + 30 hours or more drinking. came to 1600 baht, which is 23 pounds.

i’m going swimming every couple of hours. at night the water glows like blue fire as you move your hand through it because it’s full of phosphorescent plankton.

but anyway

the bar i never left….

chess with perkins, a northerner living in scotland working as a mexican chef. chess score. 32/33 to me. you’re a looser perkins.

and next, my favorite picture of the year.
this is beautiful stu!

got bored with the secluded beach, and moved across the island to Thong Nai Pan. a very relaxed party beach. no roads, good food, top people… this is my bungalow. 2 quid a night. MINT.

the view from my hammock. i did intend to go many other places, but…

left Ko Samui, too many prostitutes and ex-pats on fake harley davidsons. so i got a ferry north to Ko Phangan, the home of the full moon party. found a secluded beach. mmm much nicer.

got an overnight bus down to ko samui. don’t bother, it’s shit. fly. but interesting photos anyway. ko samui petrol station, do you sell super unleaded?

the next 2 pictures go so well together…

Note: hi to all the people i met and took photographs of on Ko Phangan, you can see all the pictures i took here.

bangkok… oh my. today i ordered an ivory white mandarin tuxedo with a red and gold waist coat with dragons on. i don’t know what i was thinking. tuk tuk tuk tuk.

sydney. went into town to take a look at the sydney opera house, and on closer inspection i found it’s made entirely of bathroom tiles. in disgust (among other flimsy excuses) i bought a new digital camera.

i’m staying with my very good friend sharon of somerset fame, known to the australians as sherry, though i don’t think this has anything to do with that tasty breakfast drink we all know and love.

so new camera… what’s the difference…
low light shots, with lot’s of detail and no noise.

so i took myself off into the city to take some slow shutter pictures. these are worth taking a look at big, if i do say so my self.

if anyone can explain to me why the lights split in 15 equal spikes, i’d be interested to know.

as featured on travelphoto.net

20 second exposure at f8.0, on sydney harbor bridge, i’ll try and write more interesting and witty things as soon as i’m over the excitement of my new toy.

i didn’t come to australia to get cold. but it’s the middle of winter, it gets dark at half 5, what can you expect.

So birthday time in brisbane with auntie pip.
This years birthday surprise was young bei, whom just happened to be in brisbane the same time as me.  after 5 months of hardly any contact, we went out and partied. not as weird as you may think, in fact a great opportunity to sort stuff out and go on a3 day road trip to noosa. noosa’s nice.

but lovely as aunties, ex girlfriends and holiday resorts are… the best thing about brisbane is the 16ft snake that lives in my aunties loft. I’ve wanted to see a snake since i got to OZ.. and i’m not disappointed.

i was in that loft for about 3 minuets before i realised it was above my head!