Last few days i spent with Xav, no prizes for guessing what comprised our primary activity. After he left and i sobered up, i made to return to my home-city of Bath. Walking down the centre of town i was suddenly shocked to find half the town is being redeveloped. A large portion of this BEAUTIFUL town was bombed during the war and all through my childhood has been haunted by industrial, black, bat-like steel structures built up in the 1960s, clad with concrete and filled with Macdonalds and Burger King. They're redeveloping it and will eventually have the entire town back to some semblance of its prior Edwardian beauty, with honey-coloured stone blocks. Its astonishing how much has changed in the short period i've been away, but the coarse french school-kids, expensive cafes and majority of ugly, stupid girls, have sadly, not.
I discovered that i can get a round-the-world ticket going from:
London - Hong Kong - Singapore - Melbourne - Auckland - Santiago (make my own way to Buenos Aires after going to Uruguay) Buenos Aires - London again
For roughly £1300 incl. tax which is a LOT cheaper than i thought and as long as i dont exceed 27000 miles (or something) and as long as the entire trip is within a year AND i travel with a limited few companies (who thankfully do the flights i suggested above) then its fine.
So it seems travel might be possible. Just have to ensure i can get work in australia or new zealand. I'm posting this here for the perusal and comment of Poleo and Andrea also, please tell me what you think about this guys. We'd have to sort out visas soon. We have to leave before 30th November.
After visiting a travel agent i met with Marc and went around various pubs in Bath and i WAS NOT ID'd. This is, in fact, unfortunate because i was itching to use JuanMa's ID :P. Either way, it was great, some nice company and ale and there wasn't a cloud in the sky.
I am filled with a tangible, viscous loathing for television. I turn it on in the hope that there might be something tolerable to have as background noise and am confronted with the terror that is day-time tv. The aesthetic menu is composed of an "auction show", the teletubbies, a talk-show or some utterly gut-wrenching program for "teenagers" that makes me HEAVILY nauseous. I think i'll sell my TV.
I'm told i must get a job. Selling thing on eBay, teaching guitar, gardening and teaching english to immigrants have all been suggested. The greatest problem is that without a car or license and living in Nowhere Sentrum, Sheepland (population: 3), its hard to find any employment at all and being under 18 (damn my poorly-timed conception) i can't work behind the bar of the local pubs...
Whatever, next tuesday i'm going to a concert of The Cat Empire with Marc and i can't wait. I'm actually spacking out a little bit from excitement.
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My shed in Hong Kong will be available from 18th December, for a period lasting not more than two weeks. Plan wisely, lest I inform Marcus and his apartment of your visit.
In other news, nice post. I severely doubt you will find a job; if you do, give me the employer's phone number, I can probably do it better than you. If you're under 18, underskilled, not an alcoholic, untalented, physically unexceptional, sexually nondescript, and/or British, you're not likely to find employment. Otherwise, Bath sounds lovely, though I don't know why anyone would want to reconstruct the home(s) of the proletariat(s) without informing them first.
I didn't know Christoffer was posting with us, hej d--d! (I still haven't played dota. >,<)
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