Ok, so i have a hell of a backlog here to write about since my last post.
for your viewing pleasure and also to cater for my laziness im gonna go by the rule that a picture says a thousand words in place of actually writing a thousand words.
the last post i put up had me displaying my tattoos to the world for the first time.
since then, i have visited mates in the UK after i left my job in Edinburgh, i went to Africa for 3 weeks on safari's fishing trips, christmas with the family etc.
New years was celebrated in a University frat house basement bar in Munich, i have caught up with some of my dearest friends in Paris and am back in Alicante, Spain partying everynight.
so a brief blurb on what happened along the way to here.
As you know i was working in a small pub in Edinburgh, since then i quit my job as a bartender extraordinaire to begin my travels again, upon leaving Edinburgh I had planned on being at a mates birthday party in Rugby after i caught up with a friend in Dundee, and thus my trip south was planned.
after a quick stopover in Dundee i began my journey south.
Dundee to Stoke-on-trent took me close to 10 hours with the changeovers i had to make, but i made it there without incident and i spent an awesome 2 days in Stoke-on-trent with my brother from another mother and his family.
Zack i thankyou heaps for everything you, your family and friends did for me, from showing me some of the nightlife, to loaning me your sister as a chauffeur to show me around.
thankyou very very much and when you come back to aus everything is reciprocated double.
From Stoke-on-trent it was back on the train to the small town of Rugby where i had stayed before on my way north 5 months previously.
Now this was initially meant to be 2 nights and then i would have 2 nights in london before flying to Africa.
this.....did.....not......happen......
haha it was my mate gibbo's 30th birthday that week, so to celebrate i still had about half a bottle of this amazing bermuda rum. Goslings Dark Seal 151 Proof. at 75.5% it packs a hell of a kick but it is an amazing rum in small doses.
needless to say gibbo didnt make it past pre-drinks. Once again, sorry for that mate, however i did end up in town with the bartenders from the local pub once it shut and had a pretty awesome night haha.
3 days later i had caught up with the majority of the people i had met the last time i was there and i had gotten everything ready for my trip to africa.
Now, Africa was awesome, and i need to go back there so i can try to see a bit more of it but i just hope that in all of my future travels i dont have a flight anything, ANYTHING like the one that i had from London to Lusaka.
from the overbooked flight leaving 2 hours late due to overbooking and having to wait for the de-icing crews to do our plane, or the 5 kids within a 10 seat radius that didnt stop screaming, or the old lady behind my seat who kicked it every fucking half hour, it was the flight from hell haha. It was an overnight flight, so i had a few sleeping tablets in my bag that i could take if i needed it, after 5 of the little vodka bottles and 2 sleeping tablets, i managed to get 1 hour sleep on a 10.5 hour flight.....
needless to say i was absolutely fucked by the time i arrived in Lusaka the next morning.
now africa is gonna be a hard thing to write about so i think the photos will have to suffice.
From African Elephant rides, to Jet boating up the rapids of the Zambezi River, Sunset Cruises on both the Zambezi and Chobe to Safaris on and off land, to fishing trips in Namibian waters to Christmas with the family was absolutely awesome.
We had christmas in the township of Lumwana at the parents house.
Lumwana is essentially a great big coal mine and the mine itself has set up a township for the workers to live. it was pretty cool, dad took me on a tour of the mine and watched a blast etc.
anyway once Africa was completed it was off to munich for new years with the sister, then onto paris to see some of my dear friends and now currently partying in spain for another week.
ok,
photos galore.
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| Ice in the pond at Zacks place |
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| Daisy and Megan |
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| Me and Megan |
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| Partying in Rugby |
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| Partying In Rugby |
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| Gibbo on the left |
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| Gibbo's birthday |
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| Party in Rugby |
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| at the POW Drinks night |
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| Elephant Riding in Zambia |
Victoria Falls
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| Cheeter |
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| Dad, Sharni, Me |
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| Me and Sharni |
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| Mum and Dad |
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| ELEPHANT!!..... oh and Mum |
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| African Lynx |
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| Babboon :D |
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| Victoria Falls |
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| Me and Sharni |
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| Overlooking the Jet boating area of the Zambezi |
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| WOOOOOOO!!! |
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| the passengers for the jet boating |
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| ~90km/h to 0 in 1 second and 180 degrees :D |
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| Village |
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| Sunset cruise on the Zambezi |
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| Sunset over the Zambezi |
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| Sunset over the Zambezi |
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| Sunset over the Zambezi |
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| Sunset on the Zambezi with a Hippo |
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| Sunset on the Zambezi |
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| Crocodile :D |
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| to get from Zambia to Botswana instead of waiting for the ferry the shuttle service included a speed boat ride |
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| from the tables at Chobe Safari Lodge, Botswana |
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| Jus Chillin' |
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| Elephants |
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| bathtime |
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| lots of elephants and other animals |
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| wooo |
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| Intense game time |
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| Our family Rondavel at Chobe Safari Lodge |
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| a pod of hippos |
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| a wee bit muddy |
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| this little elephant was trying to scare the water buffalo out of the water so it could play in the mud |
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| a 2 or 3 day old elephant |
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| Warthogs playing :D |
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| 2-3 day old drinking |
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| Giraffes |
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| Babboons and bubba |
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| Nitpicking bastards |
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| Vulture because nearby was a dead elephant |
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| FUCKING BIG SHOVEL |
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| here we have the rare sharni in her natural environment |
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| CHIMP!! |
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| Lioness just after a feed |
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| fishing with dad on the Chobe in Namibia |
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| Wild Dog |
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| Fishing with Dad on the Chobe |
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| Warthog |
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| Chimp |
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| little chimp throwing a cabbage |
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| little chimp throwing a cabbage |
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| just some of the souveniers from africa |
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| reading on the plane to munich |
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| The munich hostel bar |
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| Fraternity we ended up partying at in munich on new years |
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| munich rooftops |
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| in munich |
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| we need this store in aus |
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| sharni and a german outdoor rink |
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| me and german outdoor rink |
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| marionplatz |
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| me and sharni |
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| sharni |
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| Ariane and me |
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| sharni ariane me |
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| sharni and our friend rubens german doppleganger |
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| at the louvre |
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| me and sis |
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| weird statue |
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| just chillin with the mona lisa |
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| big pointy thing |
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| good times at the eiffle |
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| for dad |
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| arc de triumph |
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| place de la concorde |
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| Ferris wheel, place de la concorde and the Eiffle tower |
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reunited again
Charlie, Celine, Ross |
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| Good times |
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| I missed these girls :) |
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| MOOSE!!!! |
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| Sharni and Charlie at a outdoor rink in Paris |
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| Celine and me |
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| Celine and me |
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| Absinthe is awesome |
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| maybe not (she vomited all over my jacket after this) |
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| Party in Paris |
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| Party in Paris |
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| Party in Paris |
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| Party in Paris |
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| Party in Paris |
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| Party in Paris |
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| Party in Paris |
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| Bartenders |
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| Party in Paris |
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| Party in Paris |
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| The marvelous french family that put us up for 4 days, thankyou very much |
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| Party in spain |
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| Party in Spain |
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| Party in Spain |
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| Party in Spain |
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| Party in Spain |
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| Party in Spain |
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| Party in Spain |
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| Party in Spain |
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| Party in Spain |
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| Party in Spain |
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| Beer Pong |
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| Me Toby and Sharni |
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| Party in Spain |
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| Me and Sis |
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| Party in Spain |
