Cheese Rolling The Video

Well I'm sure you have all seen it before but this is what it looked like from where I stood.
The Roll. More to come.

Theatresports, Keith Johnstone

Well I payed my deposit to do the weekend workhop with Keith Keith Johnstone's. It isn't for a couple of weeks yet but I'll let you know how it goes.

Also I've linked to the newest members of my blogging friends check them out on the right hand side.

Arrrh 2 mins lift talk to you all soon

Places I've been, Things I've seen

Sort of a quick catch up in point form.

Manchester (2 nights)

• Spent day times trying to find cool dance parties
• Spent nights thinking, we should have looked harder
• Mickey picks up Swedish Nurse.

Dover (2 Nights)

• White Cliffs
• Castle and Secret War time Tunnels

Canterbury (2 Nights)

• Canterbury cathedral
• Fresh oysters on the harbor
• Fresh Crab for dinner
• Student Art Show called 'Dave are you listening'

Winchester (3 nights)

• Power walk tour of Winchester at night in order to get to the pub before last drinks
• Traditional English fete (Mickey comes 2nd in Croquet Comp)
• 21st Birhtday I actually got sun burnt
• Mylo
• Cathedral
• Planning the next 3 weeks of our trip

Cardiff (2 nights)

• Best Fish & Chips Shop name so far 'The Codfather'
• Finally got really drunk with Lewis
• Lewis quote of the night ' Ilike dick as much as the next guy i prefer vagina'
• Museum for impressionist exhibition

Got to be made of Mylo

Not sure when I'll get a chance to post the video up. But for those of you that know me well the 'Drop the pressure' by Mylo makes me do some crazy man dancing.

Well Mickey and I made it to Winchester to Sally's place and one of many highlights of our time there was driving around in her soft-top, through the English country side, not a cloud in the sky and Mylo in the CD player. Could have been a perfect day.

Cheese Rolling

Well Mickey and I went to the cheese rolling in Gloucester. It was truly mental. Basically people through themselves down a hill after a piece of cheese.

I've got a video that I've uploaded to the google video and I'll link to it once it has been verified.

I didn't know that humans and tennis balls had so much in common but it turns out they both bounce higher than you might think.

Straight or Curly

This is the start of some fun in the morning 2 Aussies, 2 English Women, 2 Canadian Guys and 1 hair straightener. They say a picture is worth a thousand words so check them out.

Flickr Straight or Curly?

Where's Wally ? (Dubai edition)

Well I know whey Royal Brunei was the cheapest tickets I could get. They do everything manually.

That was fine until we got to Dubai and they lost a person. First there was the manual recount by the man in the red jacket. Then the man in the blue jacket came and counted. Still not happy the man in the gray jacket had a go. Then they got us all of the plane, recount. It was clear at this point something was wrong, and we were told that we were missing a person. What is the solution to a Missing Person Royal Brunei Style?

That right pull out all of our luggage on to the tarmac and sent us down in groups of ten to identify our bags which can then placed back on the plan, and with Wally's stuff (I've called the missing person Wally for the sake of the story) we could finally fly off. What do they say it isn't the destination it is the getting there.

I'm here safe and sound. Cheers dc

7 More Sleeps

This is my first blog entry that I've tried from the online word processor Writely. It seems to be very cool. As a nerd that generally struggles with spelling at the best of times I suspect that this might be my preferred way of making blog entries. Now grammar only I have to worry about.

It is only 7 more sleeps until I leave. I think that I'm finally starting to get a little excited. I still have very little plans for over there so far they include

1. Mickey and I doing some very bad UK accent work
2. Meeting Jess and Stew in France and pretending I'm in the Helgas add
3. Go Couch Surfing and meet a bunch of cool new people

Why you shouldn't Google yourself

Why you shouldn't Google yourself
Originally uploaded by MrDoBeeC.

Well in a moment of insanity I Googled myself. As it turns out Daivd Conroy is quiet boring, but hidden away in google’s memory was this little piece of gold. From my time at UWS School of Computing.

When 15 equals 5

Well the story is even cooler now. On Friday 28th a parcel arrived at my old house. And yes it was my visa, processed and returned in 5 working days. Annoying but that is the last of the paper work that needs to be finalised.

The list of haves is looking much better:

• Passport
• Visa
• Travel Insurance
• Bag (Sleeping and Backpack style)
  
• Camera (Canon ixus 750, Very happy with it so far)
• iPod
  

So now it is just a battle between me and old father time. 18 more sleeps Damn you father time, damn you.

Lassie Faire not the best approach to travel planning

Wow, so on Friday I found out that the UK High Commission is, as of 4 weeks ago, no longer doing same day Visa processing. What does that mean I hear you all shout? Well it means that I'm now have to wait 15 working days for my Visa to arrive.

With a 5^th of May departure already book. That would mean my Visa will arrive 5 working days after I was meant to fly out. Perhaps not the best plan in the world to leave it to the last minute.

So now I 'm flying out on May 22nd. But Beef Strudel is still on and I'm looking forward to seeing you there.

4 More Days of Work and Countng

Well here it goes the first of many blogs, that I hope will document my travels around the world. I guess it is a bit silly to start writing before I even leave the country but I feel like the preparation could be just as interesting as travel.
Current Travel preparation Status: Could be better...
Haves:
Passport
Ticket to London

Have Nots:
No Visa
No travel insurance
Rail Passes
Bag
Camera
iPod?