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!