tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14668879365598654912011-07-08T01:26:24.056+01:00and good times were had by all...Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05963287644406872084noreply@blogger.comBlogger501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1466887936559865491.post-47515682992207789012009-05-18T15:02:00.001+01:002009-05-18T15:06:45.806+01:00

While i was at home in April Hamish Clark of Ccampbell live came to do a feature on mum and dad's house.The feature was on TV3 last night.

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So, it's been a while...The last couple of months have been a bit of a mixed bag for me (along with most people). But I'm not going to write about that because that doesn't interest you (and all is well in the land of Lucas anyway - for now).A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to score a free trip to Venice through work, we had specified some air conditioning units manufactured just outside of

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After Christmas, Steve and I forged northwards to Scotland, we reached the Scottish border where we took some photos, and where unfortunately the norovirus took a firm grip of my stomach...The photo is blurry - why were my hands were shaking so badly?a. Because of the coldb. Because I was about to projectile vomitc. Both of the aboveWe stayed one night with my mum's cousin before Steve heading up

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This is the first update in a while...I booked a house in Newport, Great Yarmouth over the Christmas period for a group of NZers orphaned from their families back in Godzone. All in we had 17 people staying at the house for the full 4 days we were there. There were many different groups of people I know from different times/places, but as is the way with NZers there was generally only 1 or 2

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[UPDATE - the photos are playing up on this post for some reason and the RH side is getting trimmed off, if you click on the photos you can see an enlarged view of the whole photo]I have realised that I have been here in Oxford for about 2 months now and I haven't mentioned it at all on this blog!Well, I'm living in a nice share house in the south of the city with 2 other guys and a cat. The

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Last weekend Luke, Matt, Scott, Ricard & myself went to North Wales to climb Tryfan, one of the mountains - the first official event for PACMAN International.Luke, Matt & I met in Bicester (where I work) and drove up to Manchester where we were staying at Luke's & met the other boys who arrived from Edinburgh & Bristol respectively.After a relatively quiet Friday evening in (playing werewolf

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Safely back in the cheerful clutches of England, I managed to get myself sorted with a flat and a car in Oxford, I also found time to once again attend Reading Festival (my third festival festival of the summer).I went to this festival with my Welsh mates Dave & Jonny, and a whole raft of other people.One of the best aspects of this festival was the '90's rock line up – recently reformed

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After saying goodbye to the sunny, sandy climes of Kefalonia I made my way back to Athens from where I launched myself across the continent to Göteborg, Sweden. The purpose of this part of the journey was to meet my recently new niece Penny, and my mum sister & brother-in-law of course!Soon after arriving we made our way to the summer house to catch up with Clas' family, his brother Henrik is

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So I've been a bit slack in keeping this thing up to date over the last few weeks, whoops! Time to play catch up...(FYI, I'm settled in Oxford now, about to start the new job)From Sofia, I bussed down into Greece, after a night spent in uninspiring Thessaloníki I made my way southwards to Meteora. Meteora is an area of sugar loaf shaped mountains, in years gone by the cliffs were occupied by

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I'll keep this one short, I just noted the length of the previous post!Arriving bright and early in Sofia I made my way to the Hostel Mostel, another fine establishment. I'm not sure if it is just the places I've been picking, but it seems that Eastern Europeans are excellent hosts.I spent the day wandering the city, the highlight being the park filled with old soviet war monuments that no one

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Needless to say, a 6am bus ride after a few beers is a bit rough... it is however very cheap and they barely looked at me 3 times at the border crossing, I've been working on my nonchalant exterior since the Hungary/Croatia fiasco. Anyway, upon arrival in Belgrade, Andrew (an Aussie on the same bus) and I found our way to Happy Hostel. Another great little hostel! this one was run by Alex, his

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My bus/train trip from Split to Sarajevo can best be described as eventful, first the bus along the (very beautiful) Croatian coast broke down 45 minutes shy of Plocé, my intermediate destination. Luckily for me, I had given myself ample time to catch the train and it all worked out fine. Until I managed to leave my travel planner/notebook on the train upon my arrival in Sarajevo... With my rail

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On my journey south I decided to spend a night in Split, this is normally place people stay a while before jumping on (or off) a Sail Croatia tour. Because of my tight schedule this was a breeze in and out visit, a reconnaissance mission if you will.It turns out that getting from Vienna to Split is no simple task. I took a train from Vienna to Gyor in Hungary & then a connecting train from Gyor

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From Cesky Krumlov, the best ways to Vienna is to either catch a shuttle all the way or to Linz & jump on the train, we did the latter.Arriving in Vienna we quickly found our hostel near the railway station, very handy and a nice relaxed place.By the time we reached Vienna we were at the point where the fact that you are surrounded by beautiful buildings is starting to lose it's novelty value &

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The bus to Cesky Krumlov was driven by a wonderful driver with a long flowing mane that anyone from Hamilton or west Auckland would be proud of.We stayed at "Skippy Hostel" which turned out to be a wonderful little alternative place run by Skippy - a laid back Czech lady. There were even a couple of mix CD's of NZ music which some previous kiwi backpackers had left Skippy, she loved them

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Mel & I caught a train from Berlin to Prague, after an initial kerfuffle over who was in what cabin and there being a log jam of people in the corridor we settled into a cabin with 2 Aussies & 2 swedes, basically a cabin of your stereotypical back packers! After a quick dinner in Prague we ventured into suburban Prague in search of Jirka (or George if you will), our host's house. We saw in

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So, after Denmark the crew split up and we all went our merry ways, Tim & Glen to Latvia, Mel & I to Berlin, Andrew back to London & Andrew's bag to Florence! Mel & I had our first official couch surfing experience with Andreas, a CS friend of Tony's. Andreas is awesome and he was an excellent host, staying with him was a great introduction to the world of couch surfing. Again, here are the

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Here's the photos from Mel, Andrew & my day in Copenhagen.This is a cool church steeple in Christhavn, the stairs go up the outside for the last few floors!Christiania in Christhavn, it's a hippie commune from the 70's, the residents declared independence & for a long time it was basically treated as a separate state by the government. That is until 15 - 20 years ago when the government cracked

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So, my job is wrapped up, and I'm in Europe!Andrew, Melody, Tim & Glen I arrived in Copenhagen last Wednesday, our hostel was located in the red light area of town which was sweet...We arrived at the festival early-ish on Thursday morning only to discover just how big a campsite for 80,000 people actually is! after at least 1.5 hours wandering around in the draining heat we found what turned out

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Well, I'm counting down my days at work now, 4 to go!It is quite strange to be moving on again, so many loose ends to tie up, so many people to see. There are many things about London that I will miss, but I'm content with my decision.My flat is breaking up this weekend too, Will is moving back to Nottingham to become an über-rich commodity trader; Eddie's buying a house with his friend Sarah &

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It is time that I can officially let the cat out of the bag on my plans for summer. I have just officially resigned from my job in London and have 2 months off before taking up another job in Oxford in September. Exciting times! My current plan has me travelling to Denmark for festival #1 - Roskilde; from there I will travel over land from Berlin to Athens for the rest of July. (Germany -> Czech

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ITV's Location, Location, Location declared Middlesbrough the worst town in the entire United Kingdom in 2007, that makes it a prime destination for a weekend trip then right?!Toby has been living in Thornaby (a satellite town of Middlesbrough) for a while & I decided it was time for a weekend visit. When I arrived on Saturday morning Toby met me at the rail station and we carried onwards to

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Budapest - what a weekend! (I'm exhausted) Tony & I headed across the continent to hang out with some American exchange students we met here in London a while back.My oversized travel companion Stephanie & Ingrid played excellent hosts, we kicked off our sight-seeing tour of Hungary at about 3am on Saturday morning (after more than a few beers) with a walk to the impressive parliament buildings

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On Monday night (after a heavy wekeend) I went to a gig at Koko with Andrew, Tony, Dan, Dan, Val, Bill & Tony's Polish friend whose name escapes me.The headliners were Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip, a politically minded electronic spoken word/rap duo from east London. Andrew, Tony & I had caught them another time opening for Billy Bragg.The guys put on a really good show, they pull off a good mix

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A couple of weeks ago I made my first foray onto Spanish soil. My friend Betul & I went to Madrid for Easter weekend.We skived off work on Thursday and caught the red eye flight from Gatwick to Madrid. Our hostel 'Los Amigo's Sol" in the centre of town was possibly the most conveniently located hostel I've stayed at.Betul gave her high school Spanish a bit of a dust off which greatly improved

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Last week, I was also at the Brixton Academy, this time to see Velvet Revolver (ex-G'n'R members Slash, Duff McKagen & Matt Sorum and Scott Weiland from STP).The gig was an awesome rock concert, they played some of my favourite old Guns n Roses & Stone Temple Pilots songs (my personal highlight was STP's Plush followed up by GnR's Patience).I didn't know much of VR's stuff apart from the singles

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I went to a gig last night at the Brixton Academy in south London, Gogol Bordello - a New York eastern European-influenced gypsy punk band. One word to describe them - fantastic!They were one of the most energetic and entertaining live act I have seen in a long time. it was well worth the £20 that we paid to get in and the tiredness I felt this morning!The band are made up of a mad lead singer/

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I do miss the biscuits though...So, 2 weeks ago I went to Belgium with Andrew & Tony. We caught the Eurostar after work Friday from Kings Cross St Pancreas to Brussels, then a couple of regional trains to get us to Ghent. I think we were there about 22:30 (europe time, not this am/pm bollocks) so it was pretty easy. Tony posing at St Pancreas, we were going to get some champers from the Champagne

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I was going to do my next post on our trip to Belgium but then something much more 'interesting' happened - there was a murder on my street last night. Pretty much straight across the road!Of course, this happened on the weekend when Rebecca & Clas were over here from Sweden to visit for the weekend. They won't forget this trip anyway!I won't say any more than it was a stabbing and there was a

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Continued...On the Weekend after Waitangi Day I took part in the London institution that is the Waitangi Day Circle Line Pub crawl:Angus, Betul, random german guy, Janet, Greg, ColinGreg, MeSorry Jay - I stole your photos.Springtime in LondonBig BenSo, that is a very brief recap on what I've been up to over the last few months, there are some good stories to go with many of the photos/trips (

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I had just arrived in Copenhagen and done a bit of touristy stuff, I guess I just got bored of writing a blog!Anyway, Andrew & Tony have bullied me into kick-starting it again after our recent trip to Belgium. I though I should give you a bit of a run down of what I've been up to since the last entry, what better a way than with photos. Copenhagen was awesome: the Carlsberg Brewery was

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Bergen really lived up to the stories I had heard:   - It's way nicer than Oslo - the train ride over is spectacular - it rains 275 days a year.   On the train ride over I met possibly the one and only Norwegian with a thick (dirty?) kiwi accent. I was talking to the girl working in the cafe (if you don't have a seat reservation you end up spending a whole lot of time in the cafe) and turns out

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I just had a massive 24 hour bus and train trip from Narvik to Oslo, I was only going to travel as far as Trondheim (knocking 7 hours off) I couldn't get the right night train to make that work, so i caught another one and went all the way to  Oslo, I had a rather sore neck this morning after sitting up all night!   So I arrived in Oslo first thing this morning and went out for a look around,

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The rail line to Kiruna terminates at a Norwegian port Narvik in the Ofoten Fjord. This is where the Swedes ship all their iron ore to. A surprisingly nice town, surprising because the guidebook introduced it with "welcome to the town that most Norwegians describe as their ugliest town", it would put many in NZ to shame.   In the harbour there are about 35 ship wrecks from WWII, the Germans tried

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From Tornio we headed down into Sweden, had a rather uneventful day & night in Luleå which consisted of trying to prevent further accomodation problems.   Northwards again, we made our way by train to Kiruna, an iron mining town in the Arctic Circle. It was cold and raining so there was not too much to see, there was a railways convention on, whoopie! This was the point where Nathan left to head

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Fact: there are few to zero phone booths in Finland (it is of course the land of Nokia) Fact: There are many many miles of boring flat road/rail track in Finland, you can afford to have big nights out if you can sleep in transit.   We bused from Savonlinna to Koupio. The accommodation we were hoping to stay at (winging it of course) apparently it turns out is not open yet for the summer season,

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On Thursday morning we jumped on a train to go to Savonlinna. This was an experience because we didn't realy know how our railpasses worked and if they were valid on the particluar trains (it turns out they weren't) but we got there and didn't have to pay anything so sweet! We stopped at a place called Lappeenranta thinking it would be good sight seeing. Don't always trust that guide book. The

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I should mention the whole time we were in Finland the temperature was hovering in the region of 25-30 degreesC. (thats just to make you Kiwi's jealous)getting off the ferry first thing in the morning we had a day to explore Helsinki, we spent ages wandering somwhat aimlessly though the city looking at historical buildings and looking for things like supermarkets.This is the main Cathedral.We

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On Monday morning I caught the train to Stockholm with the Olds and Rebecca, we went our own ways at the train station they to see Stockholm and I to meet Nathan.We caught the Viking Line ferry to Helsinki, its a massive party boat. Our ferryWe got on board, looked around for a while, enjoyed the view of the Archipeligo, then went to duty free. The view leaving StockholmLong story short, we had

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Ahh.. the Swedish Summerhouse... It's old (but sound); it's painted barn red (as are say 40% of the buildings in rural Sweden); it is surrounded by trees and farmland; and it is near a lake (2 actually).I'm not 100% sure if that description fits all summer houses, but it certainly does Clas'.The weekend at the summer house was great.It is about 2 hours east of Gothenberg in Småland outside a

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Hey people, sorry no news in a while, email has been hard to come by in Finland! We're currently in Kiruna in northern Sweden, it's raining (first day of bad weather - 30ish every other day!). Nathan heads back to Stockholm now, I'm heading to a small town called Abisko, I'll try and update the blog after that to fill in on details. Trip has been a mixed bag so far, mostly good but a few cuve

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Hej,Here are some pictures of Sweden. This is the view from the wedding reception venue, at 4am. It is light here from about this time until about 10pm. When I get to the far north I'll be basking in the midnight sun. This is the university library in Lund, I though it was a pretty cool looking building. there is free internet in all public libraries throughout Sweden (and I think Scandinavia)

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Hej!   I'm currently in Malmö, in the south of Sweden. I am staying with Ben King for a couple of nights and having a look around. I have spent the morning in Lund, a small university city and am about to head out and see the sights of Malmö for the afternoon.   When I got to Sweden I spent a couple of days in Stockholm where I stayed with Nathan, we went out for a of drinks which soon turned

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Well, the Japan leg of the trip is over. I'm currently in Stockholm at Nathan's flat (more on Stockholm later). Japan was a cool stopover, I found the language barrier a bit of an issue, but in general you could get the message across.Kyoto was great - I arrived via train from Kansai Monday night about 8pm, I found my Hostel with pretty easily. The hostel was sweet as, they hooked me up with good

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Friday night was my big farewell BYO dinner for my Wellington mates (despite still being around for a week - not lost on some people!).We dominated Masala for a few hours, Shorty gave a rather long-winded (but entertaining!) speech recounting the last few years he's known me, Carlos & Bennetts chipped in, and I tried to save a bit of face with a reply.The majority of us went left dinner and hit

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I don't think I have actually said what I am doing on my travels...   I leave Wellington in a couple of Monday's (21st), final destination London (who would have guessed?!!) in July.   In between I am stopping over in Japan - Kyoto/Osaka - for 2 nights, then onwards to Sweden for 6 weeks or so. While in Sweden I'm going to go to the second reception for Rebecca's wedding (see previous post) and

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Well, yesterday was my last day of work with Beca in Wellington, so I am officially unemployed for the next couple of months. It feels good!I was given a greenstone "adze" necklace for my going away present which was pretty cool and good for travelling (especially good for getting into the Walkabout pubs in London!) I've got a few admin things to do before I leave and a bit more of my trip to

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Last weekend was my sister's wedding down in Bannockburn.I flew down on Thursday morning to help finish the organising and was immediately put to work! Thursday night all the family went out to dinner with the Swedes - it was good to meet all of Clas' family finally. 17 Swedes came over for the wedding which is pretty impressive.Friday (the 13th) morning arrives, the day of the wedding. We're

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I got invited on this trip in early January, because i was saving to go overseas i was hesitant, but then i thought "what the heck! why not!"Going to the Abel Tasman is one of those "things you should do before you leave New Zealand", seeing as I hadn't done most of those other "things you should do before you leave New Zealand" I decided to go for it.I'm very glad I went, the company, weather

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We went to the sevens this year as dominoes. The Wellington Sevens are quite a unique experience - 2 days in a foam rubber suit with 21 of your mates amongst thousands of people partying hard. Below are some of the crew in their kit, above is my attempt at a panorama. More photos can be found on my ringo site.

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