Sebby

Animals consumed at tonight´s meal:
Lobster, Monkfish, Saltfish, Kangaroo, Duck, Whale, Puffin & Deer
I don´t have to come home do I?

Don't worry - I won't make a habit of posting here, but I thought I'd share this pic.
Here's what I saw when I got home from work today... Answers on a postcard please

Current Location: Home
Current Music: Beverly Hills 90210

So my friend is emigrating and selling the entire contents of a 3 bed house.
Give me a shout if you would like a list of stuff.
Ta :)

Tomorrow in the White Hart from 8

... Will be happening on Saturday in the White Hart from around 8.30 (not optional) and later in Rock City (optional).
See you there!

Lon x

Fakersee



Funky castle we saw on the way back. 30 mins hike up a mountain but then it had vultures n everything!!!

Current Location: Home
Current Music: Rammstein - Stirb Nicht Vor Mir

Find out how you will be arrested, the Google way.

Go to google, type "(your FIRST name) was arrested for" and see what you got sent to the slammer for. Remember to use the quotation marks! Stick your result below...

Sebby was arrested for driving naked. It would appear I was also convicted for having sex with a student. Heh!

Gah who knew being in such a cool place could be so dull? It's so hot here noone can be bothered to do any shopping until the evening so all day we just sit around and take it in turns to do ice cream runs and go to the internet cafe and look at cameltoe.org.

In other news it would appear that most of the texts I send never make it. Phone says sent and credit decreases accordingly. Meh. Maybe there is one too many mountains in the way.

Might be popping over to Slovenia and Italy before we head back to the UK since we're right on the border anyway.

Current Location: Faakersee

Finally! Bloody three days in the van and lots of "stauing" on the autobahn. Finished putting the tent up and just waiting for Brian to get out the shower so we can get some food. It's sooo beautiful here. Mountains and lakes and green stuff. And lots of hairy old bikers listening to the likes of Toto and Eye of the Tiger.
Tomorrow I have to start doing real work. Boo!

Current Location: Faak am See, Austria

(cookies for anyone who gets the reference) So yeah - what the title says. Being picked up any minute now and won't be back til about 12 September. Gonna be working for Brian again at his stall at the European Bike Week near Fakersee. See you all when I get back *waves*

Current Location: Nottingham
Current Music: Baal - Odium

Gah I was I was better at updating this thing. Don't even know where to start.
Well I made it to Germany despite bloody terrorists trying to put a spanner in the works (In fact I'm beginning to wonder if there even was a threat or if it was just a ploy for the airports to make more money)
I had to check my phone in too so when the plane got delayed in Copenhagen I couldn't even tell anyone. Got talking to the token person in the airport wearing black - turns out he was going to M'Era Luna too and knew how to get there and stuff so promtly latched onto him.
Met some more English people in Hannover. One London couple had arrived from heathrow in the morning but their bags hadn't made it and they too didn't have their mobiles so the airline couldn't even deliver them later on. Unfortunetely the bags weren't on the next flight either and I lost them after that but I hope they had a good festival!
I made it there ok but there was nowhere to put my tent up so spent the next three days sleeping in Brian's van. How very rock n roll.

Said it before and I'll say it again - European festivals piss all over the UK ones. Everything from organisation to the attitude of the people are just so much better. The bands at M'Era Luna wasn't really to my taste but the stall was in a pretty good spot so could hear all bands on the main stage. Got to see In Extremo again - if you think you would like Rammstein exposed to bagpipes you should definetely check them out - they are absolutely brilliant.
Weather stayed lovely too so I didn't need the wellies once!
On the Monday we had a look round Hilhesheim (got some great pics) before I caught the train over to Dortmund to visit Tina and Michael. They had kindly offered to put me up between fetivals and their house had lovely lovely things like showers, washing machines and cats!
Wednesday morning got the train down to Dinkelsbühl in the south of Germany for the Summer Breeze festival. And all my new aquired language skills went straight out the window. The local dialect is so strong I'm not even sure it qualifies as German. Stall was in an even better spot this time so had full view of the main stage and also it was less busy so Brian kindly let me off to see the bands I wanted. I had read the programme wrong so when Amorphis went on stage I was in a port-a-loo hehe. Also whoever was saying about the new My Dying Bride Album... (Ben?) they played a couple of the new songs in their set and they were most excellent.

Sunday I had booked a night-train back to Denmark so had all day to spend in Stuttgart. Very nice place indeed! Got to see a couple of castles, the history museum and the planetarium. Also had a look through what I thought was an Aids awareness event but in reality was a gay/lesbian awareness thing. Maybe it was giant fluffy rainbow coloured penis that gave it away?

The train journey home wasn't the nicest. I had been clever and got a seat reservation so for that I got to sit in a crammed carriage while all the people without reservations got to sleep accross 2 or 3 seats. I guess we live and learn. Finally arrived in Padborg at 6am (in the rain) only to discover no busses until 7. Was just about to sit down and have a good old strop when my dad arrived! Turns out my sister had worked out arrival time and sent out the cavalry :)

So right now I'm at dad's. Washing clothes and sorting out what ponies I need to take back with me for the convention in Birmingham in October. Tomorrow I'm off to Copenhagen to visit Møller and my grandparents. Darren is joining me for a couple of days too so we can go check out the Mermaid and the Crwon Jewels. Or something!

Tuesday it's back home to Nottingham to prepare for Auf Wiedersehen Part 3

For those of you I didn't manage to catch up with this week I guess I'll see you in a month!
I fly to Hannover tomorrow as I got myself a job working on a stall at a couple of festivals. This week was a bit manic trying to sort everything out and the terrorist incident certainly did not help. Fuckers.
Didn't get much time to write an update but you can check out my To Do list to see where I've gotten to.
I will be textable and once I hit Copenhagen also back on email/msn. Take care everyone

XXX

Current Location: Nottingham
Current Mood: Stressed
Current Music: Amorphis - Captured State

Somehow Jill convinced me to go to Wacken. So I am.

I thought you might all like to know I'm still alive :) The others had a late night last night so I'm enjoying a quiet house - only company is Jenn's two cats - one of which is currently occupied chewing my feet.
So yeah. San Fran was great. Was actually colder than Europe which made a nice change. After I wrote the last update in the internet cafe we went down to Fishermans Wharf only to found out the sea lions where in New Mexico "doing it" as the guy next to us put it.
Had a nice meal in a restaurant down there. I ordered baby clams in white wine sauce but we are both convinced they served me chicken.

The morning after I went to have a wash only to discover all of the towels (including the clean ones) had been removed from the hotel room. When we inquired at the reception the guy went "mmmm... room 308... so you're staying til the 18th (this was on the 15th)... right I'll ask someone to bring you some for tonight" Of course had we only been staying until the 17th we would have probably been ok.

Spent all of Saturday and Sunday at the Pony Convention. Well I did anyway :) Sunday Eric (Chief) took pity on Dave and they went to check out the aquarium.

The MLP Fair itself was held at the Holiday Inn. It was probably half the size of the UK one which surprised me. However it was cool finally getting to put faces to names. Also met 3 lovely girls from Indiana (to those in the know it was Sweet Tune, Girlbuffalo and Snyfez)
On the Sunday night we went for a meal and then stopped off in a liqueur store before we all went back to their hotel room and drank ourselves silly. We got back at 3am - someone I know had to get up for 8am to catch a flight!

Monday we went to check out the Golden Gate Park and The Haight. It was "Spare the Air" day so all public transport was free which was a bonus! Amazing what a difference it can make using a different part entrance btw. Last year when I went with Doug we missed the first stop so we entered the park via the side entrance and walked straight into lovely green stuff and a beautiful Japanese Tea Garden. This time we entered through the official gates and was greeted by homeless people and rubbish everywhere. We also found a creepy indoor carousel. Unsurprisingly we didn't hang around for very long.

Haight wasn't really that interesting either but Dave discovered that guitar strings cost about a third of what they do in the UK so he was happy.

Tuesday we rose early so we could check out and catch the Greyhound to Yuba City. Not much to tell about that really. We had to wait 2 hours for our connection in Sacramento and after the cold wins in San Fran and the air conditioned coach it was quite a shock to the system suddently find yourself in 42/108 degrees. I actually thought it was the exhaust from the bus I was being hit by until I realised the heat was everywhere.

Brad picked us up from the station and took us home briefly to see their new house before we went for a lovely meal in a mexican restaurant.
The boys went home to watch a film while Jenn and I went pony hunting in the 24 hour store.

Yesterday they took us back in to Sacramento. First to the old town with original old houses of the kind you see in Western movies. They have been converted to shops now but all signs etc are wodden and with old fashioned writing to keep it in the original style. I was very fascinated by it all and was laughed at for taking an ungodly amount of photos :)

But it was stupidly hot so eventually we hit the big shiny mall instead.

Tomorrow we are off to Los Angeles for the final part of the trip.

Current Location: Jenn's house in Yuba City, CA
Current Mood: hungry

God bless America.

Arrived safely and in one piece. Been checking out the town centre of San Fran this morning and now we're off down to Pier 39 so Dave can meet the sea lions. Also find a wicked record store I don't remember being here last time. Thankfully did took Mastercard...
My Little Pony Convention tomorrow.

Didn't get a chance to write about my trip to Helsinki so guess that'll have to wait. Tomorrow Dave and I fly out to California for two weeks. Starting in San Francisco where we (yes "WE") are going to the My Little Pony Convention. Then heading over to Yuba City to visit Jennifer and Brad for a couple of days and then spending the rest of the time in LA.
My phone won't work over there so don't waste your credit on texts I won't receive but feel free to email me and tell me how much you all miss me and how jealous you are ;)

See you soon
L xxx

Current Location: Dave's flat in Camden
Current Mood: excited
Current Music: David Bowie

Please can I have a wet-wipe... I've thrown up on my feet!

Current Location: Turku
Current Music: hotel lobby opera stuff

Been voluntered in a cat show, attended Metal mass in the Rock Church, Crashed a Finnish wedding, Seen Sonata Arctica perform Full Moon (and done the dance!)
Met lots of cool Finnish people (and a token Austrian). Off to see Amorphis now. Life is good!

Current Location: Helsinki
Current Mood: happy

I haven't quite worked out how to put pics on LJ yet but a couple of snaps from the last three weeks can be found here http://sebby6.darc.net/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album21

Back from Denmark for one day before Nicola and I head to Helsinki for two weeks.

Sis graduated just fine. I don’t think 15 mins have ever felt so long as when we were waiting outside while she had her final exam. She couldn’t actually have failed as her grades were good enough for the final one not to matter but still. And the look of relief on her face when she finally appeared.
I bought her a little silver graduate hat for her charm bracelet which she really liked and then I embarrassed her in front of her class mates by taking loads of pics like any proud sister would have done :)
Went for a lovely Greek meal in the evening and then I reckon she slept for a good 14 hours lol.

Wednesday I went in to town to see all the graduates dance around the fountain. It’s a very old tradition that they always used to gather there when all exams were over and sing traditional songs but sadly very little is left of that tradition and the whole thing was over in 10 mins. Youth nowadays!

Friday was the proper getting-the-certificate-ceremony. As usual held first thing in the morning and consequently saw a couple of them asleep and one girl ran outside to throw up in the bushes. Twice.
Glad to see some things don’t change!

Current Location: Home
Current Music: Amorphis - Alone