Thought I'd post an article I found, when searching for that bloke that rammed whaling ships...

Paul Watson and Sea Shephard

Did you know that Thais refer to themselves in the 3rd person habitually, or don't include themselves in a sentence at all. The Gibbon thinks this is entirely sensible ( Read more... )

In the final stretch now, just over 3 months to go. And I've had my 1st stint of travel fatigue, which I suspect is a less-wussy name for home-sickness. But hell, I'm a world traveller and can get away with the non-wussy name for it now.

( Bangkok )

Fair amount to write, that. It's been 3 months since an update, so I'm not entirely sure if I should dump everything I've done, everything I thought was interesting, or just a few edited highlights that others may find interesting.

I'll go for the last option, and risk sliding into the second option if Frances takes too much longer on her PC.

( New Zealand )

Finally in Costa Rica, last stop before NZ and OZ. Dominican Republic was fantastically expensive, which amusingly meant that for the two of us it was fantastically cheap, because we couldn't afford to do anything much. We saw whales. We windsurfed (or more accurately bounced off the board, the sail, the rocks that were always below us when we ( Read more... )

After 5 months of care to avoid burning like forgotten bacon, we are now both burned to a crisp. The learning part of this experience is, sun umbrellas may block the visible spectrum, but UV may still get through ( Read more... )

First, some news that is about Frances, not me. She has a date set for her book, here. Anybody who is either a young teenager, or sometimes acts like one, should buy it. Anybody who knows any 10-14 year olds should buy them a copy. Anybody who has any kids younger than 10 should buy them a copy for when they are older. If you're an adult, with ( Read more... )

The Gibbon is now a certified diver. Or as certified as 4 days of training can make The Gibbon, anyway. It's not like The Gibbon will be discovering Atlantis anytime soon, unless it happens to be a few feet beneath the surface and everybody else just kinda failed to spot it until now ( Read more... )

Oh, one important point I forgot to mention - I´ve met a world champion! We stayed in the same house as a world champion for two whole weeks before she admitted her title to us. And then only because we recognised the T-shirt, and enquired where she came by it.

We stayed with "Hotpants", the Extreme Ironing World Champion

Photo of Hotpants, but ( Read more... )

Learning a language can be really tricky.

( On Memory )