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So I went back to T.O... again! You jerks all keep getting married the year I go away.. but a fantastic trip.. just not long enuff =P... got to see mostly everybody for about 2 seconds each =P. Stag in Montreal the weekend before Toronto went off without a hitch, much good times as always, and then it was back in town for a whirlwind tour... Stag was awsoma good times, thank god because I was sweatin' everything big time, we ended up going to a shooting range in montreal, thank got that went ok, cuz 13 guys hung over and on a stag + guns doesn't always make a good mix!! Beyond that I think we've redeemed Montreal as a stag destination of choice- Wedding was great as well even if I made a near dog's breakfast of the speech.

Didn't quite get to do the full Starz/DKP tour... only managed to catch Dharney, Gardiner, MikeG and Fabrillo, next time must book more time off to come home... hot damn was it nice to be on Canadian soil again, if only for a little while.

On the more random side of things ended up going to Screamers fri night for the first time, good times, the asylum haunted house was the best, the others were so-so... no idea when I'll be able to go home again so not managing to see everybody was a bit of a disappointment, but with any luck be back for a bit of a visit early next year. That reminds me, still gotta send out a thank you letter to all the stag boyz and show them the pics- the pics for the wedding, stag, and general visit pics are in my gallery in the usual place- since I'm pretty sure Roger and Roubina are the only ones that read this thing I'm guessing you guys know where to find them =P!!

Ooot and Aboot in Sheep/Wine Country

Soo.. been a while since the last post... lazy lazy me... anyway, last few months have been funz, hit up Edinburgh for a few days in August, and then Bordeaux in beginning of Oct. Both cool places-! I think Bordeaux was more fun but damn you have to see the scenery to believe it in Scotland- Bordeaux was no slouch either, St. Emillion which is a small village near by is incredible-


Food wise was also pretty neat, had a few good wines in Bordeaux, tried 'Ris de Veau' (cow lymphatic glands) in France... and a little bit of Haggis in Scotland. Haggis was pretty good, Ris de Veau was pretty gross... live and learn.. Next stop I think we are going to try something a bit on the warmer side, originally we were going to go to Marrakech, but ole Allah likes his Ramadan nice and quiet so that kinda sunk that trip.


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United Kingdom - 3 Adrian - 0

So a big fun filled weekend just passed, despite the fact that i was in various states of soaking wet for most of it-! Sat. Night me and Ruby went to Taste Of London, basically like summerlicious back home but there is also actually a bunch of pavillions at regent park to taste food and drink.. towards the end biblical level rain... yay! Food was great, didn't get to try out as much as we would have liked, could definitely do a whole day there / 2 meals-- was getting pretty damn hammered towards the end too from all the free tastings and stuff. Had one of the best mojitos eVar ... mmmm... rum ...


Sunday, went to Goodwood Festival of Speed ... that one was rainy from that start... and muddy as fuck-! Really kind of put a damper on the day as most of the grounds were dirt so it was a big dirty muddy mess- didn't stay that long and missed out on a few cars that I really wanted to see- also stayed off the actual hill as our shoes were getting ruined just fine walking around the paddock- phooey! Did get to see some really cool bio concept cars, some F1 cars, and a bunch of exotics- most of the WRC paddocks were empty alas, but did catch a few rally cars here and there... bailed on the Supercar area and missed out on some nice ones in there as well, ah well- next time I'll save my £s and go to motoGP or F1 silverstone instead-

Monday took work off to go to wimbledon-!! Lined up at 4:00am and ended up getting Court 1 Tickets! Awesome seats a few rows back, first match was Andy Rodick, and second match was Justine Henin, noice! Last match was supposed to be Blake, but (of course) on and off rain all day long meant long delays and at one point we were pretty close to them cancelling the matches altogether- Wimbledon is definitely a first class operation, tons of staff, not too crowded, super well organized. I wish those guys would run personal banking and broadband internet here ... =( Rodick match was awesome and could have been very tense if Gimblestob had won the second set, also had the classic longest deuce evar (at least 8 times-!) .. Henin match was a typical 1st round n00b slaughter, but entertaining (and briefly sunny!) nonetheless.

Damn you soggy Britain. Damn you all to hell. Click for PICS ..

Oh La la I got off my ass

So Ruby and Me finally got off our butts and went to paris for a weekend, was pretty cool I have to say, first major diff between paris and london you notice, when you come out of the subway, there's always something cool to see... took the train, going in the chunnel is definitely anti climactic... goes black suddenly.. ears pop a bit... and out again. Did all the tourista classics there.. tower.. churches.. catacombs ... napolean's novelty sized jumbo coffin. Good times, possibly head back there again and do the country wine tour thing in versailles in the fall-

Also realised belatedly we manged to miss out on both MotoGP AND F1... fux! duh... stupid me...at least we're going to goodwood festival this weekend... pics and info about that soon- My internet as been down at home for a week.. hooray for crumbling infrastructure...grumble

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Finally got broadband...! I admit I'm a pretty lousy photographer, so I tried to pick some of the better ones out of the bunch...

Meet you at cockfosters

Oh yah, almost forgot, they have a station here called Cockfosters. AHAHAHAHAHA hahah AHAHAH hahah AHAH HO HOHO hoot hoot holler bwahahahah lololol rofl .... good times.

First Week Out of the Way

So The First week is out of the way... haven't found a place yet, but still looking. London is pretty cool so far, Roubina flew back yesterday, *sniff*, but she'll prolly be back soon, around march-ish at the latest, so now I've just got to find a flat and get all settled in. Work has been pretty cool too, hasn't been to o busy, and co-workers all seem pretty laid back and as far as I can tell so far really damn talented!
The food kinda blows, but I was kinda expecting that. Went to one or two good restaurants with Ruby, but man, how the hell do you screw up breakfast? Ah well. Haven't done too much touristy stuff, checked out the museum, and Ruby almost had an anuerism at Harrod's food hall. When we went they had an opera singer in the escalator area, which was pretty neat actually!

The weather has been unseasonably mild which is fine by me! Only a small amount of rain here and there, though it's typically gloomy as hell. More pics and stories to follow ...