right now im sitting at ben's place just before i head off to the airport, hopefully i'll find my way there in one piece, go me.... well after being in a total panic that i would miss my plan (it took ovr two and a half hours to get here) i am sitting around waiting for my delayed plane,two and half hours delayed.... trip is off to a good start, go easyjet

just got a message from Line, my norwegian friend in nice, sounds like there are more of my old buddies in town than i thought, should be good!

thursday i did a fair bit of sitting around then got on a bus to london... rocked up at ben's place which is pretty sweet... huge place with 5 bedrooms and lots of people around all the time.. thursday night we went to the slug and lettuce followed by the prospect, woke up *somewhere*... and i was very proud of myself for finding my way home, go me

friday night we headed to brixton hill, we were later told that we were lucky not to have been stabbed, tristand got robbed though and ben almost got in a fight, so it wasnt a total loss, i ended up in picadilly circus with shirlz and vic, met an american and a saffa and checked out a couple of bars, found someone to practice my french with turns out i havn't forgotten totally everything. go soho

saturday night kinda sucked, we were too late getting organised and didnt get in anywhere, did a lot of walking around and wasnt too fun at all, and i had a really small quarter pounder. go maccas

hows it going cuzzes? here we are again on the other side of the world. all came as a bit of shock really, not much planning done just packed up and left the day after i handed in my last assignment. so after a surprisingly pleasant flight stopping in brunei and dubai i arrived in oxford to see my dear sister... i was briefly shown around the city which is very gothic looking and beautiful really..not that ihave seen the movies but i am told that harry potter was filmed here,i can imagine that, i always thought it was purely a university city but turns out there is a lot more to it... we went to a funky little place called the kazbar for lunch well technically 'tapas' really tasty stuff but serving so small! that night (wednesday) amy took me to 'formal hall' where you have dinner at the college and its all very regimented; grace in latin, standing for the professors... stuff like that... followed up by some heavy drinking and bad nightclubs :) go oxford.

well, here we are, back in australia, the end of an era; i went to the beach this morning which was what i have been waiting for; not the hottest it could be but a perfect blue sky and cool blue water; beautiful. ive been struggling all day against my jetlag and i think i did a pretty good job, im forcing myself into a normal sleeping pattern so i better go to bed now kids, its been fun... and experience; i hope you all enjoyed reading my journal and maybe got a laugh or two along the way; seeya kids

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tristan being manly in the beer hall, ribs sourkraut and potatoes, fuk yeah!

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ben showing us the 'real' drinking style at some beer hall in salzburg

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fucking retards

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idiots

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hi kids, very very tired, not getting a lot of sleep at all,in munich now, last night(australia day) was good fun, lots of drinking and stayed out very late, ran into several perth people that i worked out i knew indirectly. today
we went to this castle built for ludwid the 1st, its the one the
disney symbol is designed on, pretty impressive, got a few photos. i also licked a metal pole and lots a lot of tastebuds, im very smart,it still kinda stings. we did a lot of walking around in extreme cold, kinda made worse by the fact its fooking freezing here and someone stole my jacket last night, good thing my broken camera wasnt in it, as thats where i normally keep it, i still havnt gotten around to trying to change my bus ticket, how i wish i hadnt bought a return from prague, im almost halfway back to france now, i kinda want to go visit bec in meinz... but tristan and ben arent interested, they want to go to salzburg for some cheap snowboarding, which would be cool as it has been snowing almost constantly here in germany... but still. cant make up my mind.

tonight we're going to try to find a typically german beer hall and
probably end up back at 'ned kelly's' the bar i was at last night.

seeya kidsamazing view from neuschwanstein castle

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manly aussieness on australia day; note ben's budding tatoo artist career

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neuschwanstein castle

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trsitans awesome macdonalds hat that cost us a train ride; nice

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hey there kids, its all good, either im really hungover or still really drunk, here in salzburg, its been a tough descision to make but here is where i part ways with the boys its been swell, they're headed off to the mountains to snowboard in 4 days of powder, bastards, meanwhile i have a hefty 40 hours of transit to look forward to in the next few days, yay, on the + side i get to see all you kids real soon, although i have to warn you i wont be drinking for a little while, need some serious detox after this bout. ben has just adequetly summed up to someone on the phone that its quite strange that im sitting here typing in nothing but my boxers in the middle of the reception foyer type area with people i have never met before, getting some funny looks, its also -15 outside, 'its just that gay' tristan and ben are looking forward to their trip getting a whole lot less gay when i part ways, they're probably right. the more i think about it the more i think i shoudl have clothes on. its really cold. my wang is small. my nuts are trying to retreat into my boddy, im pretty sure im going to be locked out of my room, i should really be wearing clothes, i dont think i have mentioned this before, tristan. queer good, i love tristan and ben so much, im going to cry, cry me a river, trains are bad bye bye

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gemma and tristan playing toabbo; wow

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heya kids, here i am in prague doing alot of drinking and not a lot else, its been snowing alot, with huge snowflakes that i have never seen before. massive, flickidty y flickty whack, tristan is haing issues and i am trying to get him tyo fire up and not stress over work situiton, i am headeed back to australia soon and i would like to make the most of it. can someone help me? awesome. tristan is the king of game and i am the king of dumbass**censored**, im pretty sure i did some bad dancing and some falling over after that, of course i didnt do as badly as my two favorite boys, ben, hav ing had far too much to drink insisted on having more to drink and i had to stop him physically and ended yup in bed early an then ate shit trying to climb up his bunk bed, tristan tried to imitate me by doing backflips on the tram and cracked his head on the ground and lots of peopel thought he was seriously injured and no one could figure out why he was so dark teh rest of the night, not even him. then i danced some more and eneed up back at the hostel very late not knowing where i was and hainvg a bad taste in my mouth, i wonder why, i cant type on this stupuid keyboard, so im ghointg go out i hope, bye kids i cant wait to fire up with you all! ciao, j...while searching for a mexican restaurant we encounted some serious snow, pretty no?

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some castle we couldnt get into in czech

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tram system in prague is surprisingly good, unless your name is tristan, then it cracks you in the head

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pretty tree style view of the big cathedral in strasbourg, this is just after i finished uni and just bofre i gbot on the bus to head towards prague...Here I am kids, just arrived in Prague after a cozy little 9hours on a bus, my first time in a while using a non-french keyboard so im getting along slowly here. Just before i got on the bus i ran into christophe and some other polish people i know who were sending him off, i was dragged into a polish tradition of drinking lots of vodka by itself quickly, so i was a little drunk for the bus trip. Bus was 45 minutes late, after half an hour in the stopped for the first of 3 20minute breaks and yet we still arrived close to an hour early, thats eastern europe for you. Reason I'm writing now rather than exploring is because someone left their internet credit logged on so i have to take advantage and another is that tristan and ben are destroyed from last night and not all that interested in getting moving very quickly, ill break them though. Ok they seem to be making movments so ill get going to collect some stories for more interesting reading, see to you soon kids

on my way back to school from sweden i randomly ran into these american guys(sara,jay and chris)who i had been staying with in montmarte about a week before, small world eh?

same bar again, ellen's friend, sorry but i have completely forgotten your name... uhhh nope nothing in here, too much zubrowka and absynthe

my friend ellen whom i met in nice, we're having a few ales in a bar in gothenburg, tristan almost got his ass kicked for trying to defile the barstaff, i think it works better on statues

ben and some swedes, you may have noticed i have given up on names as half the time in this country we skipped that part and moved straight to the photos, mine dont explicitly reflect the reasoning behind this, but trust me, we had reason

i can't actually remember if this is stockholm or göteburg, but its me in a club with some swedes, thats all that matters

a nice view of stockholm, we are standing on some cliff that looks out over the river, out hostel (boat) is right below us

some swedish girls we met on new years eve in stockholm, we all freaked out when we found out they were 15 though, what the??

anna (sweden/us) becca(us) and phil(us) very early in the mornign after a long, hard night of dancing on a boat

ben and chris(us) giggling away like schoolgirls, some might say that the substance responsible is in the forground (zubrowdka) but we all know they are just plain girly

now its my turn to be artistic, these three princesses are being very reflective in looking at some pretty statues and fountains and stuff near the eiffel tour, tristan no doubt is having an internal struggle with how to best have his way with one of them, note the slight smirk

obvious isnt it? ben, ben and me at the arc de triomphe, pretty.

tristan is a lovely photographic subject but team ben consists of a pair of idiots, do you know how long it took to get them into any sort of formation? lets just say the background was a lot more interesting to start with, this is somewhere near the royal palace musee du louvre area

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This is ben-ji practicing his "enrique" downstairs at our hostel in paris. Stay tuned for his first album

James the unlucky

hey everyone, how did your holidays go? i hope everyone had a merry christmas and a happy new year. the first part of my travels went pretty well, went back to nice, saw some good old friends, did some heavy drinking and partied it up good, then i met up with the family in lyon and headed up to the snow where overall conditions where pretty good, i had some problems with my ankle but i powered through and generally it all kicked ass, on the last day i lost my camera, the famous camera of james, it served its purpose well, and it was getting on a bit, being held together by a hair lacky it was just about due for a replacement anyway, but i am most upset about the loss of over two weeks of really good photos, sad indeed.

then headed up to paris and had an ok time there with benny, aside from the nameless event mentioned in the last entry....

then we headed up to stockholm which was nice, until something bad happened, very sad about it indeed... i had organised for all of us to go to my friend jonothan's party for new years eve, and we had trouble finding the place, then we couldnt get in, so i went off to find a phone to call him, and that was the last anyone saw of me, i lost everyone, they got into the party and had a rediculously awesome night, while i went to some expensive club and rand into a couple of french guys i new, which would have been ok, the club was really good, but the french guys were pretty lame (stoners) and i was too pissed off about losing everyone to enjoy myself... arg, so frustrating. the next night out in stockholm was a bit of a laugh, tristan couldnt get in anywhere because he was being a drunken ass and it seems like the bouncers have some sort of jackass warning network so he went home and the rest of us fired up till pretty late, the next day ben-ji headed home and we headed to göteburg to meet up with my friend ellen there, shes a great girl and she took us out for a few drinks, introduced us to some of her friends and went clubbing till the early hours of the morning. all in all we did far too much drinking and not enough sleeping.

i then embarked on the long journey back here to school, something close to 21hours in transit, train, then bus, then plane, then bus, then metro, then train, then tram then bus... im feeling pretty rotten, and for some reason i listened to ben's advice and tried to scam the train ticket and use the end of his eurail pass... i appreciate the thought buddy but the end result was a €150 fine for what would have been a €22 ticket... that hurts

so here i am back in strasbourg, going back to school tomorrow and after having spoken mainly english (and a bit of swedish) for the past 3 weeks, im sure im going to have a bit of relearning to do here, so wish me luck and ill speak to you all soon kids!