Monthly Archives: January 2006

Road trip

well, its that time again.
 
the car is packed and ready to go, will be leaving within the next couple of hours.
 
this trip is worrying me though. this time, i have no magical pot of money to get me out of the shit if things go wrong.  admittedly it is a trip of less than half the distance that i would normally do but i reckon valencia from here will be a good 10 or twelve hours – once i am on the ferry , i will consider myself safe.
 
if you see a distress beacon anywhere between vila do bispo and palma mallorca – send the extraction team!
 
so, this time tomorrow night i hope to have found a new place to stay for the coming months, maybe somewhere in the hills or maybe somewhere in the city – i fancy a bit of city life for a change but we will wait to see what materialises.
 
i plan to work solid as hard as possible as much as possible.  work, sleep, run, read, surf, swim and not much more and come back with enough money to fix up my little love shack!!!  god damn – i might even pimp myself out to some rich old widdow!
 
if all else fails, i will steal one of the yachts i am due to fix and sail it back here to sell it.   minted!
 
 
anyhow – time for me to leave my beloved portugal for a while – as soon as i find my feet again i will update my space – keep watching

lazy sundays

you gotta love them.
 
woke up at around 9.30 again today, stepped out into glorious sunshine on the terrace, cup of tea , spot of brekkie.
 
loaded the car and headed to tonel for a surf.
 
really wasnt all that so got out after gashing my leg on a rock and headed to the agua salgada to read my book and have a hot chocolate, left my friend mase at tonel, he managed to snap a leash so lent him mine, curiously though, we managed to loose my spare one yesterday.
 
today i clean the house and load the car for my trip this week.  by wednesday , should be in mallorca.  will plan my route tonight too and let you all know about it.
 
çiao for now
 

road trip – mallorca

the planning has started, well at least the music side anyway.
 
so far, i have packed
 
joss stone – the soul sessions
foo fighters – one by one
christina aguilera – just because I am beautiful
sex pistols – never mind the bollocks –
damien rice – O
groove armada – goodbye country, hello nightclub
massive attack – blue lines
stereophonics – word gets around (almost ten years old that one )
blink 182
The verve – urban hymns
moby – play………couldnt drive without this one
the police – greatest hits
skunk anansie – stoosh
red hot chili peppers – one hot minute, tearjerker , always reminds me of the fat pat days
lenny Kravitz – Mr. Cab Driver
smashing pumpkins – rotten apples
dido – both of those albums
the distillers – this one is to keep me awake when i get tired
also have a couple of hookie CD,s – one from max with acoustic stuff from the foo’s and one from Zeni from teh old days in the dromedario
 
haven~t planned my route yet but likely will leave sagres, head to seville, out towards madrid and then down into valencia before hopping on a ferry to mallorca, more on the route soon,
 
 
 
 

all days should start like this

after a ´free sleep´i woke at around 09.30.  free sleeps are the best – no alarm clock , just your body saying that it is ready for the next day.

I opened the shutters on my bedroom window and was almost knocked off my feet by the burst of sunshine that came belting through.

 

reached out for my jeans and trainers and headed out to the kitchen to make breakfast and a cup of vanilla tea with honey.

this is where it gets good,

 

popped in a dido cd and went back out onto the terrace.  i was looking out across the south coast , over the atlantic, next stop morroco, over to my right, more atlantic and of course america – nothing else in between.

 

the road was peaceful and the countryside green and definately in bloom. gorgeous dido wafting out onto the terrace. the nespre trees are in fruit and the fig tree is also starting to shoot.

my cats wndered out in the garden then came onto the terrace and sat with me while i drank my tea.

 

january, warm sunshine, good tea and a beautiful view.


road trip – mallorca 2006

just around the corner……..by sunday or mnday i should be there, basking in the mediterenean sunshine……..
 
a hefty drive across all of portugal and th elower half of spain to get the ferry from valencia to palma, surfboards, mountainbike and running shoes all packed in the car.

did my space get hacked???

seem to have lost loads of photo albums from here….maybe they will be back next time i log in.
 
well, it has been a while like i said, and i will need to be quick today, the sun is out, i have time off work to prepare for my trip and would like to have a quick surf today too.
 
New Year
 
as you would expect, was complete and utter carnage.  me, alex and mase headed into sagres. we left the house at around 11.30 in the evening and started in the bubble.
 
was already quite lively but normally for new year nothing really gets going until after midnight.
somehow, by then we were already in the dromedario, and this is where things get a little hazey. the mental ex missus – sandra, was in town but we managed to avoid her all night long, either that or i was so hammered i dont remember seeing her.
 
i do however remember chatting with a very saucy english bird, who can be best described as ´posh totty´, her name , anna.
 
as the night washed on, i got so hammered i had no idea what i was saying to her,  and of course, this meant i managed to completely offend her and make her run away, but not before snogging her face off outside of the dromedario.  so all was good.
 
while i was involved in teh tongue twisting there, alex had also found himself with her friend, an aussie bird!  only problem was, alex remembered none of this until we met anna again two days later and she told us all about it.  wierd thing is, the aussie reckons that alex was a good kisser – i reckon she must have been kissing me at the time.
 
anyway, as the night progressed and anna ran further away from me and my drunken slurrs – i am told that i was also occupied with a busty blonde germany girl too – also inside the dromedario.
 
this was a little embarrassing as i had no recollection of this at all, it was only last night when we were at the bar talking with franzi, kati and dorte, that the blonde walked in and started talking with me.  franzi kept winking and smiling.  when the blonde left, i asked franzi what all her signals were about,then she told me, aparrently i had spent two hourschatting and snogging the blonde but could not remember even talking to her!!
 
i have a big void in my memory at the moment, nothing from midnight or just after – until 07.30 in the morning when we finally got home.
 
new years day was of course spent in bed, i got out once at 7pm to be sick, then went back to bed until 07.30 the next morning when i got up for work.
 
complete carnage
 
but salvaging something – we met with anna again, she was ok so i guess i didnt offend her too much, and we have seen each other a couple of times since.  might even head to the beach with her this afternoon.
 
back to work tomorrow and then i head to mallorca hopefully by sunday.
 
keep watching this space