Note to self, the next time asks you to make sure they get home if they get drunk at a party, check the following:

1. How exactly is the drunkness likely to manifest itself?
2. How far is it home from the party?
3. Is it easy to get home from the party? 

Or is it, for example, half an hour of extremely narrow track along the side of a mountain, complete with ( Read more... )

Updating doesn\t seem to come naturally, what can I say? I owe you all a massive picspam the moment I can coax the local internet cafe into actually uploading all my pictures. Unfortunately this is taking a while ( Read more... )

So, what's a travel blog without pictures, then?  I haven't taken too many yet, but here's a brief handful to whet the appetite.

( The story so far ... IN PICTURES! )

Happy New Year!!!

Frohes neues Jahr!!!

And greetings from Oberursel, Germany!  I'm currently ensconced in spinsterbiddy 's sister's flat, watching (as is indeed traditional for Germany or so I'm told) the ski-jumping on the telly.  With my extensive knowledge of ski-jumping and slightly erratic command of German, of course, the proceedings mean absolute nothing ( Read more... )

Welcome, ladies, gentlemen and variants thereupon.

I'm going to be using this LJ as a place to report back from my travels (when I finally get going on them) and probably to ramble on about my preparations for it before I go.  So in the immediate future look for thrilling posts about the technicalities of ensuring that next year is a massive ( Read more... )