G2007

Have you got a nickel?

I get concerned when I have walked more than half a block and Starbucks is not in sight. After having waffles and maple syrup with an apple for breakfast I headed out. Here I am enjoying a Starbucks Coffee in Starbucks whilst looking across the road at another Starbucks. I

Double Tall Skinny Latte Extra Hot To Go

I woke up in Tokyo at about 10h30 Monday, got the train to the airport at 13h00, got on the plane at 17h35, had a 9 hour flight across the pacific ocean, and then landed at Vancouver airport at 10h30 on Monday. Two Mondays in a row is a bit

Yum?

Went out for my last night of eating in Tokyo. I went to some random sushi place underneath a train bridge. It was ok although I couldn’t get the image of the guy getting fish out of the tank and then butchering them to death whilst I chewed on

Tokyo Video

A little video of all the highlights from Tokyo – Rick Click Save Target As (Requires Sound) Thanks

Tokyo. Yes, We love.

One thing wrong with Tokyo. I can’t find anywhere to buy fruit. I can’t find any where that sells food with fruit in. I managed to find a bannana at Starbucks. That is the only fruit I have eaten since Australia I think. Whilst in Japan let me

Tokyo Panorama

Anhdres told me about this great tool from the University of British Columbia, it is called AutoStitch and is a free program and there are no complicated things you need to do. All you need is some pictures that have some kind of common connection to one another to create

Sushi Ueno Asakusa

Welcome back to G2007!!! At last I have got it working again to its normal state. Thanks very much to Mr Anhdres for making the Japan orientated banner for the site. It rules, take a look at his site it is truely amazing. So last night I ate this – Andy

New Camera

This is my electronic shopping finished. I have a new camera, a Nikon D70s, its beautiful. Although I am still working it out….

I heart Tokyo

I really like Tokyo and I don’t really know why. Maybe it is because the people don’t seem to hassel you and the service is great. You can walk into an electronics shop and play with all the stuff and no one will bother you unless you talk

Tekken 5

I know I thought I did not have jet lag but that was clearly wrong. After having a lay down at 18h00, I thought I was in for a 1 hour nap; I woke up 7 hours later! So I have still not seen Japan at night, that is planned

Very Lost in Translation

So this is the temporary home of g2007 as that is broken for the forseeable future. Which is ashame, but I will port all these entries over to it when I get it working again! The night before I left a load of us went out to the Fitzroy and

Directions Tokyo Style

Thank you Henrietta for giving me directions to the hotel. I think McDonalds is going to be my base from where I measure all distances and locations. Check out this funky map!! – I have come to the decision to leave my surfboard behind in Australia (thanks Charmaine for looking after

Leaving Party and talking dog

Are you considering buying or adopting a dog?  If so then you’ll want to stock up on dog supplies such as dog collars, dog harnesses, and dog toys. Don’t forget about cleaning supplies! Dog shampoos and grooming supplies are necessary to keep your dog squeaky clean. Cathy Freeman,

Hanging up the Board

Well, here it is, a retired Australian surf board at Bronte Beach. I am so glad I got into this sport, it is possibly the only one that I have ever taken seriously – The waves were very full at Bronte today so it was really hard to get onto them.

Cute Surf and Phone Weirdness

The conditions for surfing today were absolutely perfect. A fairly strong offshore breeze and glassy clean water conditions….but where is the swell!!!! Annoyingly the waves were about chest high max and with the occasional bomb set once every 30 minutes. Faisel and myself were surfing in the south corner

Some Surf Some Corgan Some Exclusives

Billy Corgan is playing at the The Forum in London in June. I am going!!! A reason to go back to London (as well as see all my friends and parents)!! A guy from Hawaii called Dan Moore won the Billabong XXL competition after surfing this 68ft wave in Maui

Hawkesbury River Trip

I still feel like I am on the boat as I write this, my vestibular labyrinth has not got use to the fact I am no longer on the water but actually on solid ground. After a morning of surfing at Manly/Freshwater on Friday (where the waves were just

Bad Shopping Experience

Tonight I made dinner for the first time since Winter 2004, it turned into a bit of a nightmare. I have one thing that I can make that I invented myself last year. It is a pasta based dish with fish/pesto/cashew and basil. I bought the ingredients from

Surf Update

Running out of surfing days in Australia (12 days remaining). This was a picture of the surf this afternoon from Pine St. in Manly which is exactly where we were – RealSurf This was an average wave for the day, some of them were massive. I had a few good rides

Little Penguin

Whilst surfing at Manly today (a few good left hand bombs but mostly windy) I was a little bit paranoid with the shark thing that i mentioned earlier. It was a beautiful day the water was warm, not even a rash vest was required, although I wore one because there

Shark Attack at Bronte

A nice story to read on the internet just before going to the beach for a surf – 18.04.05 7.20am A surfer fought off a 2m shark with his board at an Australian beach – then continued surfing. Illustrator Simon Letch returned to Sydney’s Bronte Beach 30 minutes

A little baby was born…

Karine and Mark had a little baby – … and then there were three in the family and that’s a magic number! Congratulations!!! From MarkDP.Com

Surf Rescue

Faisel saved someones life today whilst surfing, which is hard to believe as he can barely swim himself. I completely didn’t notice that someone was drowning, I was too busy watching out for blue bottles and dodging a crazy fish that was ‘coming for me’ (serious) oh and trying

Calling all Sydneysiders

For people in Sydney only really. This is an email I sent to all Australian contacts, if you didn’t get it sorry, please read below – Hello everyone at work, sorry if I don’t know you or you don’t know me, I’ve used an amalgamation of mailing

Riding Deadmans

I wrote a while back about Slater riding the Bower in Manly on March 23rd when it was massive, he clearly visited g2007 on March 22nd when I posted the warning.. I managed to find some video of it at CoastalWatch.Com Video 1 – Slater making an unbelieveably late entry