The Lord

First night in Paris, Pétanque (French for Boccie), fine vino, fine beer, fine foods, fine company, a bottle of Moët et Chandon, a shitload of fun and even some porn for good measure!

All the boys watching porn, the French boys enjoyed 2 girls 1 cup, kinda trumped their porno mags. Grreat fun!

Random Paris Cathederal

Eiffel Tower by day, ground level (der)

Ash gunning down people in Paris

Jay, Jamie and Myself laughing at Ash, the upside down camerman

J’Adore French Boys, shit, who doesn’t!

View East, First Stage

Sebby buzzing after a cigar!

Ash and Myself share a sunset moment

Caitlin and Myself

View South as twilight hits and the light turn on!

Marly, Jessica and Caitlin below the little French toliet people and their cute little French faces.

Sunsetting to the West

Group half pic

Almost full group pic

Marly and Myself

Marly posing

Chin!

Stevie Wyldman finally gets to bed, Tara poses it up in background

Tara posing as only she knows how!

Château de Chambord

Tw’us being stupid

Tara-Jane de Château de Chambord

Bordeaux

Gothic Bordeaux

Gothic Tower

Bordeaux Streetscape

Tara-Jane fountain pose

Bordeaux French living it up. These guys were having a ball, they were there for hours! And why not!

Eat street

Tara trying to to laugh her as off as I nearly die from lack of food and blood sugar.

Cheeky little fucker.

Sorry these pics will take a while to load, they are all still raw, so 10 megapixel shots. If you want to keep one right click and save to disk or whatever and they’ll be sweet for anything (even dartboards).

French kiddies drinking bottles of anything and everything in a very liberal and social street setting. So jealous, wish I grew up in Bordeaux!

Cool shot of guy on a bike and tram.

Memorable spot on Bordeaux streetscape

w00t

Pose girl doing what she doth best.

Awesome bridge.

Tara Barittz

Barittz beachview

Nice beach, really nice. Well apart from the soft sand spots where I nearly broke my leg running

Me and Tara

Tara in Nice

Howdy Y’all!!

Sorry about the lack of posting of late, I’ve been flat out keeping up with social activities and resting in the meantime. Has been a pretty amazing week indeed. I’m still yet to get to my Europe write up and I’ll probably finish it off later this month, or on the Shinkansen (Bullet Train) in Japan.

Spent Monday recovering, Tuesday I went out for a nice Chinese dinner in Soho, Ray said it was meant to be one of the best Chinese places in London and boy he wasn’t wrong. The place was packed out by the time we finished. It was Malay Chinese, so I was in heaven. I chose the dishes, with the exception of the salt and pepper squid, and it all matched perfectly and I really enjoyed catching up with Ray and chatting about our July’s. Afterward we walked about 3 laps of Soho looking for a famous little coffee shop, we found it and I had an Espresson that was totally on par with anything I experienced in Italy, if not better, I was seriously impressed! Ray sure know’s how to Wine and Dine! Love it!

On Wednesday I met up with an English ex-girlfriend I dated over 9 years ago at a private members only bar in Soho. The bar was really cool, originally an artists bar and the locals were all quite the character, especially the barman, we shared all manner of cultural tales and had a great time assessing the differences in certain cultures! After a fair few beers we went for really nice Japanese meal in Soho Chinatown. It was great, I had a large bowl of Vegetarian ramen, shared some Ebi (Prawn) and Vegetable tempura and I had 4 pieces of Unagi (Eel) Nigiri. Was great to have a good feed of Japanese as it had been a while. After dinner we went to ‘Tiger Tiger’, one of Londons more famous mega clubs where we met one of Lana’s friends from Sunderland girls school who was going to Georgia, USA and having a farewell party. Was a great night and I really, really enjoy Lana’s company, such a sweet girl and it’s really interesting and quite fun to see her all this time later! Good times indeed

Thursday night was Dan’s 30th birthday at the Piano Bar in Kensington High Street, I had a good time and it was good to catch up with Gerry and meet Dan’s new roommate Chris who invited me to the annual Great British Beer Festival the next day. I sampled all manner of beers for the bar that I’d never tried before and everything wrapped up fairly early, so Dan, myself and Chris cabbed it back to London Bridge and hit another bar there. I ended up staying at their place and got myself home in the morning, feeling a little worse for wear, but not that bad!

So Friday made it along, 08/08/08, my favourite date of the entire decade! I made my way to Earls Court to the Great British Beer Festival and after paying 3bob for my glass I entered the fray of ales and interesting English cuisine. Never have I seen so many ugly people in my entire life, NEVER! I had a great Vegetarian Cornish pasty, an amazing Vegetarian Samosa and one of the best pie’s I have ever eaten, a Chicken Balti. Chris and South Island Kiwi Matt ended up going home and it was myself, a Black English guy Rodney, A Scot from Glascow, An Airian Candaian with pure German genes walking around being inappropriate and sampling all manner of ales and largers. Excellent company, all of them, I love London like that, also this age (they were all a bit older and in their 30’s). Some ales tasted like pure ass (I’ve been told what it tastes like :P), but some were good, highlights included a really nice Wheat beer from France, a cherry chocolate UK ale, and a honey beer from North East England. I ended up fairly pissed after about 20+ half pints and sent myself home on the Tube, met a really interesting guy on the train and had a great chat most the way home. I have a solid headache today, but don’t feel sick in the slightest, which is a fair result I reckon! Good times

Really enjoying myself! Today I’m just resting getting ready for Wales and watching the Olympics. I’ve also been planning out Japan and I’m going to go all out and have set aside a good budget for the trip. I want to buy some more shoes, about 3-5 shirts, some beats and some more jeans. Plans of what to do and see are shaping up nicely, I’ll do a post of the itenery before I get their later this month. I cannot hardly wait to be honest and I’m also keen to get back into Munich and hit the English beer garten, possibly even the nude one as well, fuck why not!!

But I must say that the more time I spend in London, the more people I meet and catch up with, all the whilst getting to know the city, the more I realise that I could live here in a heart beat. I was on the Tube yesterday and it hit me how much I really do love London, it’s really a great place to be if you know people and are willing to put up with the shit that comes with a big city such as London. I have a feeling I’ll be spending at least 2-4 weeks here a year for quite sometime, in Summer of course. Way, way too much stuff to do here and things to see, not to mention people that I need to have a pint or two with, I have about 8-10 people on my list and I just know I’m not going to get time this trip to meetup with them all.

Well I hope that all get’s you closer to the same page and love to all, hope you’re all well.

XXx B

Howdy Folk! Been a longtime! Hope you are all ace!!

Th’as been an interesting month indeed. New love - now old, 32 days living in 37 other peoples pockets, many memories, many, many good times and the best day of my *entire* life. Not bad, infact I am chuffed! I am going to do an entire chronological write up as it’s “a good story” (big-ups to Carl for that, love you mate - well not really, but good saying!) and nobody can interrupt my flow Maybe that’s why I like blogging so?

Not too shabby and well beyond what I expected, albeit I was entirely exhausted almost the entire last two weeks and definately not being myself at all times. Not at all, sad part is you are always judged by these defining moments! Euro tours will do that to you!

Oh Well!

So what the fuck happened? Loads really, like doing 25 cities in 32 days was not enough, I decided that a mini love affair might make a good mix to the equation, boy was I wrong! (again)! LMFAO! (for those un-annointed, that means Laughing-My-Fucking-Ass-Off, LMFAO)!

In all fairness to the amazingly beautiful and beyond georgeous, smart as fuck, lovely young girl involved, my intentions were pure, however the rest was well lacking. Sorry Tara Jane, you know that wasn’t me and the rest as they say is history! I was plain exhausted and well on holiday - in more ways than one. I really think you’d be far better off with someone else, maybe someone more ordinary and lukewalm? Once again I need to laugh, sorry everyone - it’s how I cope (that was really a joke) Overshare? Fuck it, it’s what happened!

But in all seriousness I loved my time away and really wish I’d expressed myself differently. Maybe left people on the tour thinking that I actually enjoyed myself, shit I hope some did! Cos I really did! That said control has never been my strong point, either way, those that control, nor those that are controlled. It’s gay (need a better word, but that will do for now). I like my life and taking a step back into the past into something that I’d clearly have enjoyed when I was say younger, was quite a step away from today’s reality. The reality I created and need to start respecting in it’s entirety. Not only that, but I need to start respecting other people’s Bullshit, irrespective of whether they are right or not. You have no idea how hard that was to say! Baby steps…

I also managed to leave my camera charger and battery on the fucking bus when we left which sucks, so pics might be a little while away. Got some great pictures and vids though!

Life is funny and once again I feel weird. I cannot help but think everything is on track - albeit for the fact the everything is beyond out of control. Seriously, I mean everything!! Here’s a list to give you an idea:

1. Tomorrow = nfi
2. Finances = up the shit
3. Current debts = 5k
4. Currently owed = 4k
5. Potential contract hanging in the balance for 32 days too long = 12k/6mths
6. Love = distant
7. Hunger = satisfied
8. Alcoholic Liver = happy

So I guess it’s not that bad really. 7 unt 8 are all that really matter in times like these. But woe is poor me, I secretly love it. God these posts are getting worse. I really do miss all you guys at home, I really do. Love you all to bits!

So where to from here? Well to be honest I have NFI. I think I’m happy for this day. Tomorrow will be different and I cannot wait to tackle something different. More than likely either Ireland, Wales, or something stupid like India.

God freedom is a bitch!