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| 22nd January 2008 Rob Thomson | Mmmmm....smooth roads - From: back to the low-lands again The photo of the border area road made me salivate. How I miss the roads of The Netherlands. Still enjoying your updates, Kees. Rob --- --- 14degrees Off The Beaten Track - Around the world solo by recumbent bicycle and skateboard. 20,000km. 2 years. // URL: www.14degrees.org // email: rob.thomson@14degrees.org // Raising awareness for Lowe Syndrome - www.lowesyndrome.org |
| 12th November 2007 DestinationAlgeria | 'travelling around each other' - From: Brussels- lost train ticket- Frankfurt, cold, time to go home I think I like your concept. |
| 11th November 2007 Francis | Yip bugger - From: Brussels- lost train ticket- Frankfurt, cold, time to go home I think I recognise that town hall. So you really did pass through Leuven, and considering I was in Frankfurt yesterday, we may have been travelling around each other for the weekend. Oh why did I have to go and plan this trip for that exact weekend! Good to see you got out safely - I know the broke feeling :) Chao dude! |
| 11th November 2007 wim harwig | - From: Brussels- lost train ticket- Frankfurt, cold, time to go home I think What a pity you're ending this blog........ Keep it open till your next travels..... I'm sure you keep searching for destinations! Thanks for all the blog-work; it was fun reading them. |
| 3rd November 2007 Mariève Talbot | - From: disruptive passenger at Ataturk airport WOW ! All your pictures are nice but I love the one on the train ! Cool picture ! |
| 28th October 2007 Francis | Happy Birthday - From: disruptive passenger at Ataturk airport I'm glad you are safe and sound after your trip! I think that is the most epic adventure I have ever witnessed online - let alone you guys who actually did it. Big ups :) |
| 26th October 2007 DestinationAlgeria | pro Hezoballah/Palestine ??? - From: Kids and Castles me?? actually when I was in Istanbul buying airline tickets, the Hezoballah top was the only clean thing that I had ... |
| 24th October 2007 Chris Campbell | Warning - From: Kids and Castles Kees/Dan, Your commentries appear to be taking on a very pro Hezoballah/Palestine view, therefore i have reoprted you to the relevant authorities. Also apparantly in Damscus theres is a church where there is weeping statuate of jesus (no bullshit my mates seen it) so you should ask around and go see it, i think its free entry |
| 24th October 2007 Brititi | - From: New Zealand government warning Yep me and George are best buddies along with John and Howie |
| 24th October 2007 Gmail | Moroccan Haircut - From: New Zealand government warning Would this aforementioned haircut qualify as what could be known as a "tiger cut"? The return of Sir Gawain perhaps? |
| 23rd October 2007 Nic | - From: New Zealand government warning Don't listen to them! It's an excellent beard :) Although I bet the Hezbollah t-shirt adds to the overall impression... |
| 22nd October 2007 DestinationAlgeria | haircut - From: New Zealand government warning That's a tough one mate. My last haircut was shocking Moroccan style and things havn't been the same on top since. I don't really trust these turks either, so maybe I'll wait until Invercargill, I hear they're good. |
| 21st October 2007 Stephen | - From: New Zealand government warning yeah, how come the beard keeps growing but the hair on your head isn't getting any longer? Tell us about Arabic barbers. |
| 20th October 2007 DestinationAlgeria | terrorist - From: New Zealand government warning thanks, you sound like George |
| 19th October 2007 Brititi | - From: New Zealand government warning I have been trying to tell you all along that you look like a terrorist with that beard! |
| 19th October 2007 DestinationAlgeria | bike shorts - From: Hamas, Hummus and Hezbollah you know what I'll be wearing first day back at the NCRE |
| 15th October 2007 claire | ? - From: Hamas, Hummus and Hezbollah I'm pleased you managed to get to Israel - has made me feel nostalgic. Those 5hr waits at borders and having stones thrown at you by locals...well, enjoy wherever you are going to next. |
| 11th October 2007 Brititi | - From: Hamas, Hummus and Hezbollah Thanks for the shot of you in bike shorts. Scarred for life. |
| 7th October 2007 Henry Toh | Henry here in Chicago - From: Where's Dan Dan! good to know you made it back to Cairo after travelling with you to Luxor and Aswan. I am back home in Chicago now, just emailed you pics from Egypt and Morocco. I'll mail you a CD or DVD will all the pics soon. Enjoy! Henry. |
| 6th October 2007 anna | Nice to share it with Kees - From: القدس / יְרוּשָׁלַיִם / Jerusalem I agree with Kees: ever so lucky to be in Ramallah that very moment with full of emotiveness of families gathering back together, tears and hugs, moving speeches -I guess, since they were in Arabic- crowd of reporters from all over, Palestinian Authorities shaking hands with three nosy westerns brought all the excitement to us. Amazing experience! Nice to share it with Kees. Big big hug, mate. |
| 5th October 2007 Brititi | Thanks for the history lesson - From: القدس / יְרוּשָׁלַיִם / Jerusalem And love your Palestinian photo! |
| 5th October 2007 DestinationAlgeria | key - From: direction Israeli border words of wisdom from the expert himself |
| 5th October 2007 DestinationAlgeria | Dana - From: direction Israeli border now now you |
| 5th October 2007 Jean Genie | I couldn't resist... - From: direction Israeli border Never thought I'd see the day where Kees would spend "a night in Dana..." |
| 4th October 2007 Brititi | - From: direction Israeli border John Key thinks that the war in Iraq is over, technically. |
| 28th September 2007 Chris Campbell | Ramadan Rookie !!!! - From: Ramadan comes to town You Ramadan rookie !!!!!! this my fourth tour of duty so to speak, but sounds more leniant in Egypt than it is here, no eating or drinking, swallowing or smoking in public and bugger all restaurants are open and the ones that are, are all balcked out, anyways im outta here in two weeks for a while, so doubt youll make it whilst im here, so ill guess ill see you when i see you |
| 27th September 2007 Jean Genie | A Comment from Hornsby - From: showering with the family goat Awesome photos! Although you have seemed to go a bit nuts with the old "Ctrl V"... Loved the story about the pervy goat. Although the thought of it charging you down in the nud is even better! Take care bud. John Key sends his regards. |
| 27th September 2007 Briti | - From: showering with the family goat Sounds like a grand time...having showers with goats and bogan laps in Jordan...bet you never thought that would happen! That photo of the old roman building (is it a library) carved out of the rock is amazing! All the classics lectures are flooding back! Stay safe and don't get too friendly with the goats! |
| 17th September 2007 Matthew Fighter Pilott | Tourist Trap - From: into the chaos of Cairo Given the number of prople in the photos, I couldn't see you hanging about the pyramids too long... When you say pricey, I'm curious - what goes for a rip-off in Egypt? |
| 16th September 2007 DestinationAlgeria | all by myself - From: into the chaos of Cairo yip it's just me and my bike now. But Dan will be in Cairo soon so we should catch up in a week or so. As for the beard, it's probably here to stay, so many Egyptians ask me if I'm Muslim because of it. When I say 'no religion' it's like they've seen a ghost! |
| 16th September 2007 DestinationAlgeria | pyramids - From: into the chaos of Cairo call me negative but I'd had about enough of the pyramids, all the dodgy salesman and the annoying package tourists and their buses after about an hour. So I didn't really hang round, and going inside was a complete rip-off so I refrained from that activity. |
| 13th September 2007 Brititi | - From: Heat, hills and hot water Nice lycras by the way... |
| 13th September 2007 Brititi | - From: into the chaos of Cairo Hmmm, those photos look like you have just photo-shopped yourself in front of those pyramids and sphinx... Seriously though...it looks awesome, and yes I'm very jealous. Are you all by yourself now? And do something about that beard... |
| 12th September 2007 Francis Saul | The most densely populated city on earth - From: into the chaos of Cairo I went to the Tait gallery in London where they had an exhibit on megalopolises (however you spell that). Surprisingly to me, Cairo is the most densely populated city on earth, ahead of Tokyo, New York, Shanghai or Mumbai. London itself has quite a low density. On another note, looking very hairy! Don't get yourself too ripped off, and I hope you got your bike fixed good and proper! |
| 12th September 2007 Yoonah | - From: into the chaos of Cairo Oh, did you get to go inside the pyramids? Was it scary? |
| 12th September 2007 Yoonah | - From: into the chaos of Cairo Hahaha I so can't imagine you saying 'no speak English'. And very nice-looking new friend you've got there. High five! |
| 11th September 2007 DestinationAlgeria | revenge? - From: Destination Algerian border only so back to Casa hey cheers, but you could have informed us earlier |
| 8th September 2007 emu bin laden | revenge? - From: Destination Algerian border only so back to Casa I notice that, since you were denied access to Algeria there have been a couple of terror bombings there... explosive-packed bicycles, they reckon. Appearently, you're meant to forget the visa and bribe the border guards, slip a note into your passport, it comes back sans note and there's no need for a suicide charge on the border-crossing |
| 6th September 2007 Jean Genie | No such Algeria - From: Destination Algerian border only so back to Casa Hey buddy - glad to hear you're still alive and well despite the harsh rejection at the border. Hmmm, perhaps those beards were too extreme even for the Algerians...? |
| 4th September 2007 Stephen | tragedy - From: Destination Algerian border only so back to Casa No! Our hairy pedaling Thelma and Louise have split up. And they didn't reach their destination. Say it isn't so! Or, like every great road movie, is this the scene before the climax when the unlikely couple split up and head their separate ways, mission uncompleted, before realising that they need each other, reunite, and kick some baddies' ass? Go on, guys you can do it. Turn back to the border and have a crack at option B. |
| 3rd September 2007 DestinationAlgeria | - From: Never drunk so much water in my life! mate I started at -3m (in the Netherlands). Actually we did start in Marakesh, which is probably around 600m. Old Emu must have climbed to around 20 meters, he's good on the hills that that one. |
| 2nd September 2007 The Phantom Crapper | Opreation Sanson - From: Never drunk so much water in my life! Don't hassle Emu, the 8-year-old he's hired to type up his blog is probably very satisfied with their standard of work ;) 2,260 meters - that's pretty solid, especially since you started somewhere down around 0... And what with all that facial wind resistance! |
| 30th August 2007 DestinationAlgeria | spelling - From: Never drunk so much water in my life! mate you're lucky I'm letting these comments through. I recall your travelblog having more errors than Don Brash's election campaign |
| 30th August 2007 Emufarm | sucker-puncher - From: Never drunk so much water in my life! one of the reasons you've got to love kees is that with his notorious sense of humour itts impossible to know whether his repeated writing of 'puncher' when he means 'puncture' is geninue ignorance or a stuble long-term joke intended to sucker someone into correcting him, which would be met by some cleverly crafted pre-prepared punchline, probably involving an obsecure reference to middle-eastern politics or the use of the word 'sanson'. |
| 28th August 2007 Stephen | Loving the stories - From: Never drunk so much water in my life! Hey guys, keep it up. I still have no idea where you are (the photos suggest somewhere north of Waiouru?) but I'm loving hearing about the adventures. |
| 28th August 2007 DestinationAlgeria | revolution - From: Food posioning fit for a king fish a people's revolution in a dictatorial state - or would that be a democratic revolution in an islamic state?? Mate I havn't a clue about politics, We're just here in Morocco seeing the country from our package tour bus window and we only go to touristy places. |
| 24th August 2007 Mummybot | Crazy motherf##kers! - From: Food posioning fit for a king fish I always knew you had a screw or two loose up in that skull, but this latest North Africa mission you two are embarking on is one worth of ole Che - minus that internal combustion engine. Write some diaries (I guess that is a blog) and start a people's revolution in a dictatorial state - or would that be a democratic revolution in an islamic state? Good luck in the sweltering heat, I do hope you survive and live to tell the tale! I am parked up in Belgium at the moment so if you want a place to couchsurf whilst drinking the best beer in the world, you know where my online place is at. The mummybot |
| 21st August 2007 emu | punchers - From: The freezing Atlantic lots of dudes punching you out there, eh? mate, 1300km, 1 puncture, no chain breaks - that's why i took my bike from nz, the one with the computer. |
| 15th August 2007 Brititi | - From: The freezing Atlantic Been to J-Land and back again...off to the Big C this weekend (Canberra) for my internship. I shall email you a Japan update soon. Your North African trip so far sounds awesome. Take care and don't get knocked off your bike! |
| 15th August 2007 Chris Campbell | Welcome To The Arab World Brothers - From: Tour d'Tanger I strongly suggest you keep those beards, when you get in to the rural areas you'll see why. Also If any man smiles at you and says "dig, dig" get out of there as quick as your bike will carry you. Also the arabic word for bus station is mahattat (station) bassat (plural of bus) and hadoot means border |
