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Category Archives: The Joy of Travel

Somebody was right.

11-Sep-07

So I just came from Dublin, and while previously skeptical about the rantings of a certain person, I now know these things to be indelibly true. Knackers are real and oh, so horrid. I have never in my life met more fit candidates for experimental drowning.
Sure, bogans are unpleasant. Chavs are somewhat grotesque. But knackers […]

Sure it’s art, but must you spit in my face?

31-Aug-07

Culture is supposed to be good for you right? Then why is it my blood pressure skyrockets whenever I pay to go to a museum? If it’s free, I’m fine with rules devoid of common sense to a point. When my money gets involved my BS threshold shifts. Perhaps it not museums I dislike, more […]

Buzz kill

21-Aug-07

I’m not an animal person usually. But very few in the kindom of animalia receive as much of my personal bile as the insect kingdom. Whether it’s bed bugs, crawling over a wafer-thin mattress in the hostel from hell, or wasps assaulting you in an outdoor cafe, insects manage to take any situation and turn […]

Home away from home

04-Jul-07

Dear respected proprietors of this hostel (Bluesky Hostel in Glasgow, UK). I wished to share with you some selected thoughts that crossed my mind whilst staying in your lodgings:

Trusting your employees to choose appropriate music to play at a volume of their own discretion in the reception/communal kitchen/dining/only area with available power points is a […]