The 1000 Day Holiday

699 Days down, 301 to go…
01/12/07 CS Sinterklass party, Rotterdam
02/12/07 Rotterdam
03/12/07 Rotterdam
04/12/07 To Nijmegen
05/12/07 Sinterklass party w Anne
06/12/07 Nijmegen
07/12/07 Nijmegen
08/12/07 To Amsterdam
09/12/07 Amsterdam
10/12/07 Amsterdam
11/12/07 Amsterdam
12/12/07 Hanging w Wolfe in Amsterdam
13/12/07 Amsterdam
14/12/07 Tilburg – Billy Corgan and his groupies Loes & Sjan
15/12/07 Party w Wolfe in Amsterdam
16/12/07 Amsterdam
17/12/07 Fly to London
18/12/07 London
19/12/07 London
20/12/07 Party w Talia
21/12/07 Koko nightclub with Becky, Dave n co.
22/12/07 Beckys Christmas dinner party.
23/12/07 London
24/12/07 London
25/12/07 Christmas w the Braithwaites & Nicholsons.
26/12/07 London
27/12/07 London
28/12/07 Camera Shopping, Science Museum
29/12/07 London
30/12/07 London
31/12/07 NYE party at Koko

730 Days down, 270 to go…

Arriving in London from the Netherlands. Its supposed to feel kind of like home right.

The Motherland of our little colony at the ass end of the world.

But first you are greeted by immigration. Today is a good day. 60 People in the EU resident queue. 0 in the Foreigners. In fact there’s only 1 lady dealing with those called foreigners.

I approach in a happy mood, thinking this has to be the easiest border crossing. But things have already gone awry. Freshly back in the land of mobile connectivity, I thought it smart to store Jamie’s address at which I would be dossing on my new dutch Sim card. Which to my surprise on disembarking the plane has a default PIN.

Bummer. But I know the suburb, which Ive put on the form, and have a good memory of the map.

She: Whats your address in London

Me: I put it in my new phone, which has a PIN, And now Ive locked it trying to guess the default PIN. But I’m pretty sure I can find it, and if not, find an Internet cafe…

She: So you have no address

Me: I do, but I just bought this SIM, and now its locked, but if I get online I will have it.

She: How long are you planning to stay in the UK? Her flicking through my almost full 48 page passport

Me: About a month, I need a new passport, so have to wait for that.

She: What do you mean “about a month”

Me: Well the time it takes to get a new passport and see a few friends.

She: How much money do you have.

Me: $xx,000

She: What currency? You have been travelling a lot. When do you finish.

Me: Aussie Dollars, 8 Months left…

She: And then what?

Me: Find a new place to live and some way to make money.

She: Raising eyebrow…

Me: But the main requirement for where I’m going to live, is that it must have a nice beach, that’s warm, sunny and has good winds for kite surfing.

She: Well that’s not here then! STAMP.

I love this small flat land!

After a rather sucky Christmas last year, Ive been making up for it in the Netherlands this year.

a huge Sinterklass party in Rotterdam with Nanouk and 150 other couchsurfers. The best was yet to come however.

I then got myself to Nijmegen, and adopted into Annes family for their traditional Sinterklass party.

These are definitely staying with me for the forseeable future! I cant wait to cruise around in a hostel wearing these…

And whats politically incorrect about Sinterklass? He has a black slave/helper called Black Pete. It could only be better if he was a midget too

669 Days down, 331 to go…

01/11/07 Trans-Siberian Irkutsk to moscow, CS w Natalia
02/11/07 Moscow
03/11/07 Moscow
04/11/07 Moscow. Overnight train to St Petersburg
05/11/07 Arrive in St Petersburg – Church of our saviour on spilled blood
06/11/07 St Petersburg – Hermitage
07/11/07 St Petersburg
08/11/07 Bus to Tallinn, Estonia
09/11/07 Tallinn, Estonia
10/11/07 Tallinn, Estonia
11/11/07 Tallinn, Estonia
12/11/07 Bus to Riga, Latvia
13/11/07 Riga, Latvia
14/11/07 Riga, Latvia – Overnight bus to Warsaw, Poland
15/11/07 a Day in Warsaw then train to Krakow
16/11/07 Krakow, Poland
17/11/07 Auschwitz
18/11/07 Wieliczka Salt Mine near Krakow
19/11/07 Overnight Train to Prague
20/11/07 Prague, Czech Republic
21/11/07 Prague
22/11/07 Berlin – Dinner w Renate
23/11/07 Berlin
24/11/07 Berlin
25/11/07 Berlin
26/11/07 Bus to Hamburg
27/11/07 Hamburg, dinner w Liddy
28/11/07 Hamburg
29/11/07 Overnight bus to Rotterdam, Netherlands
30/11/07 CS Sinterklass party, Rotterdam