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| 27th October 2009 uma mahesh | super - From: KUCHING THE CAT very nice decorative holy temples |
| 9th October 2009 Pablo (yo) | Hello! - From: RARATONGA Great blog!!! If you like, come back and visit mine: albumdeestampillas blogspot com Thanks, Pablo from Argentina |
| 5th October 2009 WAYNE | COOKS - From: RARATONGA WILL BE GOING TO NEW ZEALAND FROM CALIFORNIA, ON OUR RETURN TRIP WOULD LIKE TO SPEND A COUPLE OF WEEKS IN THE COOKS, RARO AND AITUTAKI. IF ANY ONE KNOWS AN INEXPENSIVE, ROMANTIC, ( NOT TO EXPENSIVE) HOTEL ON BOTH ISLANDS, ANY INFO WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.... THANKS WAYNE |
| 29th September 2009 Steve Mac | Good one - From: BOILING BAKO!!! Great final picture and description of the storm. I love storms. |
| 25th August 2009 Carina Mendez | Birthday - From: Melaka is very sleepy Hi i hope u ad a great birthday Beck soz i avent emailed 4 ages been very busy working . I finished my NVQ in a year which i targeted myself to do. Do you know when u will be returning yet . Im glad your still enjoying yourselves . Anyway missin u both lots and c u soon hopefully love from your little sis xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
| 16th August 2009 Tony | Happy Bday - From: Melaka is very sleepy Hi Beck Happy Bday from all of us xxxxx |
| 16th August 2009 Leonard Novick | Would love to ask a few questions... - From: Relax, dont do it, dont even breathe! Came across your travelblog while researching my upcoming (I hope) and first trip to Laos in October (just kind of decided a week ago). Would love to ask a few questions if you have the time and would not mind. Let me know. No reply is also cool. Happy travels! - Leonard |
| 8th August 2009 Ade | Your House - From: City of Towers Dan, Your sofa is really comfortable, thanks for letting us squat for a few weeks. Ade |
| 8th August 2009 gary mullen | Steve - From: City of Towers Dan, Steve from Melaka has been in touch, he wants to rendevous with your arse again sometime soon love Gary |
| 6th August 2009 ellie | blog. - From: The start of all the films!!!! boring. |
| 13th July 2009 Stuart Duncan | Sports latest - From: Bangkok, Episode 1 - A New Country Mark Webber won the German Grand Prix and the first Ashes test was drawn, thanks to rain in Cardiff on the fourth day. England: 435 & 252-9 (105.0 overs), Australia: 674-6 (181.0 overs). England had to last out until the close of day four in order to save the game and just managed it - a really exciting finish with the last-wicket pair, Anderson and Panesar, scoring 28 runs between them. What was close to an innings defeat became a draw and Ricky Ponting was extremely pissed off, accusing England of "Stalling". Er....yes, I think that was the idea! Carlos Tevez has joined Man City (!) for £25 million (dunno how much that is in Bahts), joining Roque Santa Cruz and you probably know that Ronaldo left ManU for Real Madrid for enough money to clear the national debt of Togo. |
| 13th July 2009 Gary | Sinister Prison Bumming - From: Bangkok, Episode 1 - A New Country Dan I really love reading your blog, its the highlightof my day Love Gary |
| 4th May 2009 blonk | English TV - From: Guangzhou CCTV 8 in Guangzhou is english speaking. Although I found all the advertisments are in Cantonese, so if you skip past the channel whilst the ads are on you miss the english programmes. |
| 26th April 2009 Stuart | - From: Yangshuo Bahrein Grand Prix 1. Jenson Button 1:31:48.182 sec (from 4th on grid) 2. Sebastian Vettel +7.2 sec 3. Jarno Trulli +9.2 sec 4. Lewis Hamilton +22.1 sec 5. Rubens Barrichello +37.8 6. Kimi Raikkonen +42.1 sec 7. Timo Glock +42.9 sec 8. Fernando Alonso +52.8 sec Football 1 Man Utd 33 15 1 1 41 13 9 4 3 20 10 38 77 2 Liverpool 34 10 7 0 35 12 11 4 2 31 14 40 74 3 Chelsea 34 9 6 2 28 11 12 2 3 28 9 36 71 4 Arsenal 34 10 5 2 26 11 8 6 3 34 21 28 65 5 Aston Villa 34 5 9 3 25 21 10 1 6 25 23 6 55 6 Everton 34 7 5 5 28 19 7 6 4 20 17 12 53 15 Blackburn 34 5 6 6 20 23 4 4 9 17 32 -18 37 16 Sunderland 34 6 3 8 19 20 3 5 9 12 26 -15 35 17 Hull 34 3 5 9 17 33 5 5 7 20 26 -22 34 18 Middlesbrough 34 5 8 4 16 17 2 2 13 9 32 -24 31 19 Newcastle 33 4 6 6 21 27 2 6 9 16 26 -16 30 20 West Brom 34 6 3 8 23 30 1 4 12 10 33 -30 28 Chelsea scraped into the Champions Leage Semis after going 2-0 down at home to Liverpool. The game ended 4-4, but that made it 7-5 on aggregate. Arsenal sailed through 4-1 on aggregate against Villareal and ManU will play them after beating Porto 1-0 away after the 2-2 draw at Old Trafford. Barcelona will meet Chelsea after beating Bayern Munich 5-1 overall. Everton beat ManU on penalties to book an FA Cup final place against Chelsea. It served Ferguson right; he almost fielded his reserve team and was punished for his lack of respect. Snooker Steve Davis lost 10-2 in his first round match against Aussie Neil Robertson, but the big 2nd round casualty was Ronnie O'Sullivan, beaten 13-11 by Mark Allen (NIrl) after being well ahead at the interval. Nigel Bond also went out after beating Peter Ebdon in round 1, where Stephen Hendry beat Mark Williams 10-7. Hendry looks the man in form. Have a good time in Shanghai (massive place). |
| 12th April 2009 Stuart | Sports and email - From: Coorg - Honey Valley Hi Dan and Becks My email won't send from home at the moment, but I hope this gets through. I liked Hong Kong when I was there as well, very exciting place. I don't know much about F1 but, apparently, Ross Brawn had become Honda's F1 technical director in 2008 and bought the team from Honda - turns out that much of the money came from Virgin as Branson is keen to get into GP and is bank-rolling the team, I think. Brawn thought that the car Honda was developing was potentially the best in GP and it turned out to be true. Button and Barrichello got 1st and 2nd in Oz and Button won in Malaysia. Lewis Hamilton was initially promoted to 3rd and then got disqualified for telling lies about the circumstances. Sorry, I don't know all the ins and outs except that Hamilton is making himself less popular and Jensen Button's star is in the ascendant. World Snooker Championship. The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield 18th Apr-4th May 2009. I thought I sent you a final report on the cricket (sorry). England had two jammy wins but deserved to win the decider thanks to Andrew Flintoff, who took 5-19 including a hat-trick. He is still unfit, but was brilliant on that day. Soccer: ManU have had some inconsistent results, but scraped home 2-1 at Sunderland, after a late show 2-1 against Villa. The winners in both games were scored by Federico Macheda, a 17yr old Italian striker. All the other big 4 teams scored 4 on saturday, but Chelsea were 4-0 up against Bolton and ended up scraping home 4-3. Bizarre! 1 Manchester United 31 13 1 1 9 4 3 33 71 2 Liverpool 32 10 6 0 10 4 2 38 70 3 Chelsea 32 9 5 2 11 2 3 35 67 4 Arsenal 32 9 5 2 8 5 3 26 61 5 Aston Villa 31 5 7 3 10 0 6 6 52 6 Everton 31 7 5 4 7 4 4 13 51 West Ham 7th on 44 pts, so the top 4 look settled, as do 5th and 6th In the Champions League, Chelsea won their ¼ final first leg 3-1 at Liverpool, Arsenal drew 1-1 at Villareal and ManUtd drew 2-2 at home to Porto (who looked really good, so it could be tough for them next week. Barcelona won the other ¼ final 4-0 against Bayern Munich. |
| 30th March 2009 darryl challice | - From: Holiday hey both of u sounds like a gr8 experience all seems vry eventfull ups and downs but all the gr8 experience of travelling enjoy the rest of ur time hear fromu soon EVERTON FOR 4TH xx |
| 27th March 2009 Stuart | Sports report - From: Holiday Suddenly, the title race is hotting up. Liverpool beat ManU 4-0 away and then beat Villa 5-0 (Gerrard hat-trick) while Utd lost 2-0 to Fulham. Wayne Rooney got sent off for petulance and punched the corner flag. Arsenal are improving, so the top 4 is now the usual, Manu, L'pool, Chelsea, Arsenal, followed by Villa and Everton, with Wigan 7th! Utd are one poinrt ahead with a game in hand. England play Slovakia in a friendly on Saturday, followed by a world cup qualifier against the Ukraine on Wednesday. England won a cricket match! They beat the West Indies in a one-day game, but only because the Windies' coach got confused about the Duckworth-Lewis method and came off for bad light when they could have won if they had stayed on. Normal service was resumed when England lost the 2nd ODI by 21 runs, despite a century by Andrew Strauss. |
| 19th March 2009 Sachin | Re: THIS NEXT STATEMENT IS NOT DIRECTED AT FRIENDS OR FAMILY- - From: Kolkata (Calcutta) The above statement made for some disturbing reading indeed, only and only because you had to write it. However, I think I probably know the reason for it too. As a tourist one can write what one feels, without feeling apologetic about it. And yes, thanx a lot for also writing so many good things about India, which was good to read and glad you also enjoyed your stay in India. Have a nice stay and India looks forward to see you again. Best of luck and God bless !! |
| 16th March 2009 Mark Carter | the carter is here - From: Darjeeling hey buddy's my eyes are sore from all the reading, sounds like your having an eventful time of it. Big old place india sounds great, glad u went on the trip thinked you were long due it. amir khan beat seven time world champion barrera and was running his mouth even though barrera clashed heads in first round and fight got called off because he couldn't see due to constant blood in his eyes, enzo macrenelli got KO'd in a big shock. big show has been having a bit of vicky g you shoud of seen edges acting when he found out, pure genious. wrestlemania, taker v michaels - cena v edge v big show - triple h v orton, quality story with triple h and orton who beat up hunters wife stefanie mcmahon and now hunters gone mental - m hardy v j hardy, big story bout matt jelous of jeff am missing the cheese and wine nights its just been me and waz recently england jus got whipped in 20-20 by west indies. by 6 wickets rusty the manager at blacks only just found out, happy days, job is going well have applied to be a regular as well just bought toyota rav4 a 4x4 tinted windows leather interior, its gangsta.lol look forward to hearing more from you both in the blogs will be in touch xxx |
| 15th March 2009 Stuart Duncan | Holi moley - From: Kolkata (Calcutta) Hi Dan and Becks I was in Mumbai for Holi and still remember it (although it was >30 yrs ago). Celtic beat Rangers 2-0 aet in the CIS Cup (league cup). Liverpool beat Man Utd 4-1 away to put a bit of doubt into the Premer League title race and Villa just lost 2-1 at home to Spurs. Arsenal beat Blackburn 4-0, Arshevin scoring his first for them. Standings: 1. Man Utd 28 +33 65pts 2. Liverpool 29 +24 61pts 3. Chelsea 28 +32 58pts 4. Arsenal 29 +19 52pts 5. Ast Villa 28 +13 52pts 6. Everton 29 +10 48pts. West Brom look in big danger with 22 points, but only 6 points separate 11th and 19th place. All four english teams are through to the last 8 of the Champions League (Liverpool the most impressive with a 5-0 aggregate over Real Madrid). Cricket: England: 546-6 & 237-6 West Indies: 544 & 114-8. England came very close to squaring the series in the final test at Port of Spain, Trinidad, which included 7 centuries. It was, in the end, a heroic failure, as two tests had seen England come within a couple of tail-enders' wickets of winning. Hope you enjoy your chill guys :o). |
| 15th March 2009 Anjali sen | Nice Story - From: Kolkata (Calcutta) Hey i read you whole blog. its really nice to read. I know kolkata is one of the busiest city in India and so much traffic and chaos. http://www.kolkata-dailyinfo.blogspot.com |
| 15th March 2009 mez | hi guys - From: Darjeeling Dan stay away from tea or coffee if you haven't seen hows its made. It is usually tap water and boiling once will not get rid of contamination. some information Patna means rice in indian. Tas and her dad are leaving for Bangleadsh on the 31st March for 3 weeks. If you get bored of india cross the border and meet up with them ! from mez and gang. |
| 15th March 2009 Genna | SICK?! - From: Verynasty OHMYGAWD guys! How ill have you been? That's insane? Where the hell have you been eating to get so sick all the time? You really are delicate little flowers! :) |
| 8th March 2009 Stuart | Sports report - From: Haridwar, Rishikesh and Musoorie Sports Report - Forgive the delay! Footy: Only Liverpool of the big four are out of the FA Cup (knocked out by Everton in 6th round replay) and the Semis are Everton vs Man Utd and Chelsea vs Arsenal/Hull. Eduardo is back for the Gunners after a year out and has scored twice in as many games. Man Utd won the Carling Cup on penalties against Spurs (0-0 AET). They are still on target to win five major trophies including the World Club Championship and the Carling Cup which they have already won, with the Premiership looking like theirs with only Chelsea (under new short-term manager Guus Hiddink) looking like challengers. Table: 1st Manchester United Pld 27 Pts 65 2nd Chelsea Pld 28 Pts 58 3rd Liverpool Pld 28 Pts 58 4th Aston Villa Pld 28 Pts 52 5th Arsenal Pld 28 Pts 49 6th Everton Pld 28 Pts 45 Cricket: Oh my God….. 2nd Test (Antigua): Lasted about 10 balls (!) as the pitch was deemed unsuitable. This was at the new ground built with Sir Alan Stanford’s money - he is now under investigation for massive fraud. 3rd Test (Antigua): Hastily arranged in 48 hours at the old test ground to replace the 2nd test. England amassed 566-9 dec and bowled out the Windies for 285, but managed to snatch a draw from the jaws of victory as Strauss did not enforce the follow-on. England laboured to 221-8 before declaring, giving them four sessions to bowl out the home side for less than 502. They managed nine wickets before the umpires offered the light with the sun shining. The Windies accepted gratefully for an undeserved draw to stay one-up in the series. How to lose a test when scoring almost 200 more than the opposition! 4th Test (Barbados): England declared on 600-6, but the Windies trumped them with 749-9 dec (Sarwan 291), but couldn’t get quick England wickets, so a draw was inevitable. 5th Test (Trinidad): Looks more interesting and England need to win to square the series. Strauss, Collingwood and Prior all hit centuries as England declared on 546-6 and the Windies are 323-4 at the close of day 3 (Gayle got 100 before retiring hurt). England need a flat pitch to crumble quickly to have a chance of getting a result. It has been a batsman’s series - not one bowler has averaged under 20 per wicket. Athletics: Drugs cheat Dwain Chambers stormed to 60m Gold today in the European indoor championships after causing a storm with his autobiography. Golf: Tiger Woods starts his comeback - look out the rest. |
| 24th February 2009 Thomas Oliver | Hello. How to upload Pics. - From: Haridwar, Rishikesh and Musoorie Well hello there, I am glad that you are enjoying your travels and doing some really interesting thing. Just to let you know Fame was really good, Ben managed to perfect the Jew quite well, along with his dancing, and his hair was probably bigger than mine!! Overall good fun and Rusty and that lot went to see him on the Tuesday night. I thought I better come to your rescue about how to put pictures on the blog. Firstly go to the blog that you want to put pictures in, do this by clicking on ‘List Entries’ on the main home page from when you log on, next to ‘Add Entry’. Then click on the ‘Photos’ button which is next to the blog you want to add them to. Next read that page and see which way you want to upload your photos, there are three options, I would probably go for the last one which is ‘Add an Image’ as it’s the least hassle, although does take a bit longer, so do whatever you have time for. Then in the pop up window (this is for ‘Add an Image’) just find the photo location on the pen drive and upload. That should work but if not then let me know. I hope to see lots of pics of Chewy!! Enjoy Tom |
| 17th February 2009 Carly and Mark | hey guys - From: Rajasthan Hello u two!! it sounds like ur having such a fab time, we are so jealous! I'm loving the updates, they make me chuckle!!! Looking forward to hearing more about your adventure, lots of love, Carly and Mark xxx |
| 11th February 2009 darryl challice | - From: Rajasthan hey dan bec snds like trip is vry eventfull hope u both hv gr8 time scorlari has bin sacked guss hiddink as temp manager and he still in charge of russia everton goin gd knocked them kopites out the fa haha fuckin tv cut out though just as we scored the only goal of game man u startin 2 walk away wit the league now cnt c ne1 else winnin it chelsea and liverpool r shitierz villa lookin vry gd dnt hv clue bout ne ova sports part from hatton fighting pacquiao the lil fillipino take care xx |
| 11th February 2009 Paul | Good on yer! - From: Rajasthan Well done guys, having survived your first few weeks. The Delhi bellies get fewer as you harden to all that bacteria! Can't remember, is it Rishikesh next? Soooo wish we were with you pair! Love ya! Paul and Gen xx |
| 9th February 2009 Becky and Chewys great escape | Sports - From: Udaipur Thank you so much for the regular updates. To save you time, top 6 for prem league and Eng Crickt games will be excellnt. THank you so much. I will write th blog in the next few days. Loads has happened this last week Dan. |
| 5th February 2009 Stuart | Update - From: Udaipur Hope you are having a good time. Sports Update Tennis - Australian Open Serena Williams (2) beat Dinara Safina (3) in the ladies’ final Rafal Nadal beat Roger Federer in 5 sets to win the men’s. Boxing: Joe Calzaghe retires undefeated after 46 fights having won both the Middleweight and Light Heavyweight world titles. Cricket: First Test day 2 Eng 318/10 | WI 160/1 South Africa win ODI series against Australia and overtake them as top team in one-day cricket India go 4-0 up in one-day series against Sri Lanka, but Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan became the highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals when he claimed his 503rd victim on Thursday. He already holds the Test record with 769 wickets. Football: 1. Man Utd 23 30 53 2. Liverpool 24 24 51 3. Chelsea 24 29 48 4. Ast Villa 24 14 48 5. Arsenal 24 13 43 6. Everton 24 3 37 7. Wigan 24 2 33 8. W Ham 24 0 33 9. Fulham 22 3 29 10. Man City 23 9 28 11. Hull 24 -15 28 12. Bolton 24 -7 27 13. Sund'land 24 -8 27 14. Tott Hots 24 -5 24 15. N'castle 24 -10 24 16. Ptsmouth 23 -15 24 17. Stoke 24 -17 24 18. Blackbn 23 -11 23 19. Middlboro 24 -17 22 20. Wst Brom 24 -22 22 Liverpool finally won (2-0 over Chelsea) but spoilt it by getting knocked out of the FA Cup by Everton (replay A.E.T.) but it was live on ITV, who managed to put adverts on at one point during extra time, just as Everton scored, so nobody saw it! |
| 30th January 2009 Stuart | Food & Sport - From: Udaipur Really glad that you are doing the street food thing - it is the best thing in India IMHO and you are right to appreciate the generosity of a lot of indians. Sportsflash :o) Australian Open Semi-final latest: R NADAL Spa v F VERDASCO Spa 6-7 (4-7) 6-4 7-6 (7-2) 6-6 Winner to play Federer. Serena Williams and Dinara Safina will fight for the world number one ranking in the final of the Australian Open after wins in Melbourne on Thursday. West Indies A (the reserves!) were 343-2 at close of play vs England. Footy: Too much too tell - loads of transfers (Heskey, Mido, Defoe, Savio, Keane(?), Nolan, Palacios, Roque Santa Cruz (?), Chimbonda, Bellamy, Bullard) and ManU stretching their lead (10 clean sheets in a row - a premier league record) while Liverpool are drawing EVERY game while Chelsea and Aston Villa look like overtaking them! Let me know if there are particular sports and/or teams that you want or don't want to know about. Can't find the Netball and Croquet scores - sorry Bex (just kidding)! |
| 27th January 2009 Genna | LOVE IT! - From: Mumbai You are frigging hilarious woman! Wish I was there with you! Missing you masses - the flat is quiet and Paul is less randy! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
| 25th January 2009 sarb | - From: Before the off. Hi U guys.. Hope ur having a FAB!!!! time, not missing home too much..u dont wanna be here!!! Just far to flipin cold and dull/grey u know d usual... where r u??? what been hapenin?? any pics yet?? Love Sarb xxxxxxxx |
| 24th January 2009 Stuart | Mumbai etc - From: Last bit of luxury!! Hi Dan and Bex I am very envious but pleased that you are doing this. Mumbai is amazing...don't be in too much of a rush to get out as it is a very interesting place. Andy Murray just got through his 3rd round match in the Oz Open by beating Jurgen Melzer of Austria 7-5, 6-0, 6-3: he plays Fernando Verdasco of Spain in the 4th round. ManU are top of the Prem league, just ahead of Liverpool, who keep drawing matches. Aston Villa and Chelsea are well behind with Arsenal and Everton further back. Cricket: England have agreed to release players for three weeks this Autumn to play in the IPL in India. Thus endeth the sports lesson...enjoy India and don't be too scared of the food! |
| 19th January 2009 mark clapson | - From: Just a quick heads up!! Hi Guys, Hope your having a great time! sorry we didnt make the party but we still expect some pressy's when you come home :) Love Mark, Sandra & jacob |
| 19th January 2009 Annie Fitzgerald | Great to hear from you - From: Just a quick heads up!! Morning, Don't complain about the weather in England we have rain. rain and oh yeah more rain. I have spent the morning dodging cars driving into hugh puddles! I hope you have better weather in India. Love Annie |
| 14th January 2009 Andy ware | - From: Before the off. i hope you three have a wonderful time on your travels we will have to meet up when you get back. see u soon. |
| 14th January 2009 Genna | ...aaaaaaaaaaand they're off!!!!!!! - From: Before the off. Yipeeeeeeee! I'm so excited for you crazy kiddies (particularly since we get to steal you first - mooohahahahahaha!) - you're going to have an absolute blast. Love you both! Mwah! xxxxxxxxxxxxx |
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