G2007

Return to the Land Down Under

Hold the phones! The return trip to Australia via Singapore will be underway on February 14th 2006! So Sydneysiders keep 17th to the 28th February free for the wildest surfing/drinking/bbq’ing parties you can ever imagine!! The Route! Better get packing!

Nike 10K London

Last weekend a group of us from work did the Nike 10k run in London’s Hyde Park. I did this run last year with Mike and Rachael in Sydney, Australia and dedicated myself to doing it again. The problem was I did not do any training for this one

Nürnberg not Nürburgring

If there’s one thing I’ll learn from the couple of days spent in Germany, that is that there’s no such thing as the Nürnberg Ring, a fantasy location that I had wanted to visit on my trip over. Apparently the Nürburgring is some 400km away. The reason

G2007 Two Years On

On this day in History – 1793 – French Revolution disestablished christianity in France 1864 – Calcutta India, almost totally destroyed by a cyclone 1910 – Portugal overthrows the monarchy 1947 – First televised White House speech by Harry S. Truman 1966 – Partial meltdown of the Enrico Fermi nuclear reactor near Detroit, Michigan 1991 – First

International Lifestyle

A great weekend spent at an undisclosed location in the world (not Ireland) where I drank some beer in small glasses – Undisclosed Beer Drinking Location On another note met Matt (here/here/here and here) at Gloucester Road tube station for a quick beer on the way back from the

Fear makes the wave look bigger…. (UK Surf Trip 5)

It’s the middle of September, the best time of the year to go surfing in the UK because the water is “warm” and the waves are “big”. I will definitely say the water feels warm but that is probably because the air temperature is less than the sea temp!

On Holiday?

I was at an undisclosed location this weekend. Can you guess where it is? More later……

Google Earth is Amazing

Google Earth is amazing. Since Hurricane Katrina hit the USA many people around the world as well as people from Google and NOAA have been creating overlays to be used with Google Earth to show the devastation that the flooding and hurricane has caused. Here is a screenshot from my

Bhang Lassi the band

Have you ever had a dream where you wanted to start a band, write some good songs, become famous and ultimately become rich beyond your wildest dreams. These two guys did – Bhang Lassi, McElhone Street, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, ‘stralia, July 1st 2004 Bhang Lassi are going strong and have a fully

Le Mariage

An excuse to leave the country! Not like I need one, but this was special trip for the marriage of Karine and Mark who were nice enough to stop by when I was in ‘stralia. The party was in a location called Nice which isn’t pronounced ‘nice’ but more

Bank Holiday Weekend Fun

What a cool Bank Holiday weekend, proof that you can have fun in this little country! I mean the bank holiday actually doesn’t make that much difference to me anyway as I don’t work Mondays anyway, but the weather was set to be perfect all weekend, and so

Biarritz Video

At last, a video! All of this footage was filmed in SW France, including all of the waves that weekend (not necessarily filmed by me), which gives you an idea of the size they get down there!!! It requires sound as per usual and is best downloaded first. Right Click.

Bard boys dans Biarritz

I told everyone at work I’d see them next Tuesday and headed out of the office on Thursday afternoon to pack for the big trip to the South West coast of France for some serious holiday fun and surfing. Friday morning came and I headed off in the car

Camping is in Tents (Surf Trip 4)

I love that, Camping is in tents. Did you get it? In tents? No? Ok. Fizzer celebrated his 42nd 32nd birthday last weekend on the Gower. The surf report for the weekend looked pretty rubbish. The whole of the United Kingdom was surrounded by the colour purple on the NOAA/

Some updates

Last weekend I returned home and got some stuff from the loft. I went out with my parents and Christine who is a German backpacker staying at my parents house to a place called Crabmill in Preston Baggot. It is my favourite restaurant in Warwickshire and recommend it to anyone.

Damn Dawn

I received this comment last Friday on my ‘Tofino Surf Not Happening‘ entry from ‘Dawn’ – your an idiot, how could you possible think that you know what the surf is like here when you were only here a few days. If you actually did know anything about surfing, you’d

Mr Felix

Karine sent me a nice picture of Matt (fellow A3 driver), Myself and the star himself, baby Mr Felix …. Cool…

Surf Trip 3

To keep prices down I purchased a semi-geodesic tent and headed West in the new motor. The journey took longer than usual because everyone else in the UK seemed to be trying to get to the South West of England. We passed a bus on fire and a smashed up

Stag Nation

This weekend I attended a social gathering for men only. No, I have not become a Mason, I went to Mark’s stag. This stag is going to seem fairly tame, but I have spared you the details to prevent embrassement for all (Mark especially). I set off after work

Vrooomm!!

I doubt I’ll have as much fun in this bad boy as I had in the Vitara (see here, here, here and here), but then again getting a Ferrari wouldn’t have beaten that car. Here is my new car though, it’s a lovely Audi A3 1.8

Summer in the Sun

A nice load of weather we have been having here! It has been blue skies and high twenties for the past couple of days. As I am in London this weekend looking for cars (which I am having pretty bad luck with). I phoned one car dealer and said “do

Surfing and F1 at the Design Museum

To get away from all the doom and gloom that has been hitting the site recently, I made a little trip today to the Design Museum on the Riverfront about 20 seconds walk from my house. It had just about everything I was interested in inside. F1 Cars, Computers and

The Offending Item

I went back to the ‘scene of the accident’ where I ended up having to have five staples in my head. They do have the ‘Caution – Mind your Head’ sign over the metal box which I believe I hit my head on but it is obscured because its behind the

London Underground synonymous to a double overhead reef break?

I went to my buddies house to help him lay his new flooring and ended up in the Emergency Room of St Thomas’ hospital in London. Two days in a row that have been pretty bad. I initially woke up and headed for the office as their was nothing on

Terrorist Attack London - On the scene report

Picture from Sky News All other pictures in this post are my own using my mobile phone. The morning of 7th July was no different from any other. I headed out of the door at my flat at approximately 08h20 for the 15 minute walk to work over Tower Bridge,