Grape Juice – Prague, Czech Republic
The Scots in our group are tickled pink I brought a slab of Edinburgh beer to a Czeck wine festival…
Hot Nights, Cool Jazz – Chiang Mai, Thailand
…I don’t know what happened, OK? I got up, and took the mic, and after about a dozen notes I realised I was… just a tad… off-key. Maybe I was too sober..? There is nothing quite as traumatic as being given a pitying glance by good musicians when you are a tad off-key… In one…
Vodka & Lost Teeth – Poochera, Australia
…’I have never hitchhiked’, Vladimir says. ‘Only once. It was during my time in the military. I joined the Serbian patriots when I was just turned fifteen. Tito was my commandant at that time’… ‘Poochera. I sleep here once with my wife’ Vladimir muses. ‘I think was here…’ Poochera is an almost non-existent settlement on…
Guns and Picasso’s – Malaga, Spain
…The place is like the inside of James Bond’s basement. Rack after rack of high tech assault rifles, sub machine guns and pistols line the walls… The highlights of Malaga, Spain: the Picasso Museum and the most awesome toy shop I’ve ever seen. Guns. Walking into the city to see the Picasso Museum,…
The Roof of Europe – Monte Bianco, Italy
…Italian people consider hitching old fashioned, associate it with the hippy era and rarely give rides. Italians do not hitchhike themselves and consider hitchhikers to be dangerous… The further south we go in France the slower we move. The cars get more expensive and the rides sparser. A guy stops for us and he is…
Francois’ Top Tips – Colin-Camps, France
Before dropping us off near the highway to Abbeville, Francois, our gracious host in Colin-Camps gives us some sage advice: 1. “Go to Mont St Michel, Normandy – it is a spectacular 13th century walled city on an island.” 2. “If you go to Marseilles, watch out for pickpockets!” 3. “When you enter a town,…
Hithchhike in France? Impossible! – Colin-Camps, France
Riding with Belgians and Dutch, as we head south, we hear the same thing time and time again: “you will not be able to get rides in France; the French are a rude arrogant lot; they don’t speak to you if you can’t speak French; they don’t like foreigners…” We start to wonder if…