I saw a dead guy in Athens. He was dead. Dead he was. Dead he is. But never has he been so popular as he is now… What the duce? you say. My friends in Athens are Archeologists. They dig stuff out of the ground that is old. Like really old. Like stuff that other people have buried. Other...

Taxi drivers for me are a hit-or-miss breed. Sometimes they are cranky little wankers and other times they are the best drivers out there on the blacktopdeathdrop. In the case of my driver to the Berlin Airport, he seemed like a Type A but after telling him that I had a flight to catch in 45...

…then we take Berlin. Or more correctly, Berlin took me… for a fool! Actually no, but it wasn’t what i expected at all and even now i am wondering exactly what it was that i thought i was expecting and i expect it was something unlike what i got. Except it was still pretty...

Ok, this is pure ego massaging and i’m sure no-one cares except me but the final project i worked on at the Studio here in france went online this week: http://learn.whatisfear.com I’m pretty chuffed with it and i think it’s freakin cool and am very proud to be a part of it...

So i’m slack and haven’t written anything for almost a month, boo hoo. Here’s a pictorial overview of the missing time: R’s sister and kids came over from the states for a visit and we all spent the day at La Cluzas and rode the Luge. Then we had a picnic on the...

It’s hot. Damn hot. My shorts: Apparently you could cook things in them. It’s hot. Hot and wet, which is great if you are with a lady but no good if you are in the jungle. I am not in the jungle. But I am in a sweaty little office in France. Ah France! Where they have not heard of...

…full of fish. I have just arrived in downtown Bordeaux on another of my little weekends away, which usually involve lots of driving and lots of turning around. I’ve not seen the ocean for over 3 months now, well the Mediterranean doesn’t count as there’s no waves,...

28 degree days and lots of sunshine, what could be better? Itchy eyes and skin, total bliss. A nose that runs like Carl Lewis and a series of sneezes that have given me whiplash. Ahh summer. Apart from that it’s been pretty nice here. Been swimming in the Lake which is not too cold...

It was my birthday yesterday. I am 30. I am in Dublin Ireland with my mate Usto and his lovely lady M. I am hung-over and it hurts. I am tired and that hurts too. I am a mess and it’s good. Got here on Thursday night after a hellish trip from Annecy to the airport, via Paris and...

Went for a hike last weekend. Up a mountain. It hurt. Here’s a picture… In the foreground are C and Sheepie, part of my host family. In the farground you can see the other half of the family in Maison De Capodanno, it looks like they are sleeping. I have recently moved out of...

I swear this is true, a true story, only the facts have been changed to protect the insolent. But that in itself is a lie and belies the truth, does that make sense? If you answered C) Yes, then you are B) Wrong. The south of France is a wonderful place, full of beaches and little towns every...

I find it simply amazing that i could be in two very different climactic regions with in the space of a couple of hours… and roughly an hour...

I have this habit of turning everything into a gastronomic analogy. Most things I think of I can make an edible equivalent and the French Riviera is a box of Arnott’s Family Assorted. I hit Monte Carlo first of all and it was a bit of a let down, mainly due to the aforementioned rain and...

Where were we? where are we? I dove to the south of France a while back to get away from the rain and lack of snow that was the happening thang here in Manigod (which is where I am staying with the ever hospitable B&M, not Annecy as previously stated and recently admonished for said...

6% of the world is not much really, thats like a sip of beer or a mouthfull of curry….just a taste…100mls of a good wine. This is where i have been so far… I have so much more to see… will i ever be finished? Do i want to finish? What do i save for last? Like that...

…boarding goddamn it! It’s so nice to have my gear at last, feels like home. Just to have a board that you can ride without worrying if you’re gonna snap your ankle is great. The hire gear in this country is really bad, really.

You put a lot of trust in airlines really….you trust that the flight is on time, you trust them not to serve fish, you trust them not to kill you either through a crashlanding or a silver serving platter loaded with lollies to the forehead. You also trust that your motherloving bags will...

Kate and i drove to seattle via vancouver. We went the long way from Fernie which is via Golden and Whistler. We got caught in traffic after golden because a truck blew up in a tunnel….which sounds very spectactular and made us sit in the middle of no where for an hour or so but when we...

So i was standing at the hitching point in Fernie, awaiting my turn in the bludgealiftcosimtoocheaptopaytwodollarsforthebus line, when a hearse pulled up. I thought it was just turning into a side street but the bugger stopped right infront of the line. The guy cleared the line out, he can...

It’s been a while so i’ll try and cover the last few weeks… So we boarded for a quite a few days in a row and had a great time. Mind you Dom and i didn’t ride much together as he was staying with Robbie and I with the others, so it was kinda a dogs breakfast of...