Richard: Hey Lloyd, doing this 3 Peaks Challenge next month - you keen? Lloyd: Yes. Richard: Cool. Jumped on a flight to Glasgow on a Friday morning. Walked around the town for a while. Had some Guinness at the Horse Shoe Bar (apparently the oldest in town) saw more tattoos on women than I have ever seen in one day and tried my hardest to stand next to local Glaswegians and listen to them talk because their accents are AWESOME. Met up with the KPMG crew that were doing the challenge, jumped into a van and we were off. The basis [View Full Entry]

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It all started a couple of months ago when I had a braai at my house and my good friend Richard and I had had one too many drinks. Richard then suggested we do this crazy race up in the Alps that he had read about. 10 mins later after much intense concentration whilst trying to punch in our card details we had flights to and from Geneva. Took the late flight out of Luton (never ever fly from this god forsaken place) and arrived in Geneva around 2230. Jumped in our shuttle and we were on our way. Eventually found [View Full Entry]

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Flight: Had 3 seats to myself, wine was awesome and watched Juno which was funny. Jet airways, big thumbs up. Delhi: Arrived at Delhi Int, kind of a strange check in procedure went through customs and hugged Dave. So good to see my old friend. We then jumped in a taxi that took us to the train station. Got fooled by the tricksters, ended up not catching a train and rented a car and a driver by the name of Papu for the entire trip. Heading out of Delhi we saw a chappie in the slow lane riding his elephant; we [View Full Entry]

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Jumped on the 5:11 from Euston to Manchester to meet up with my mate Dave. Dave's studying in Tel Aviv and we decided to meet up for a bit of a weekend bash and Manchester sort of chose us. Had a couple of hours to kill before Dave arrived so I decided to see the sights and sounds of Manchester. Wondered into a very happening and noisy area along a little canal and went into the first bar I came across. The bouncer stopped me and shouted over the music "Hey are you from the UK?" Me: "Eh, well I live [View Full Entry]

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It's a bit strange living in London because you are so close to such massive sporting occasions and venues all the time. Growing up in SA as a kid you see Lords, Stamford Bridge, Wimbledon etc on TV but now living here you walk past these places often without a second thought. I love that you can watch live world class sport almost every weekend of the year. Well Wimbledon was in town a few months ago and there was simply NO way I was going to miss it. The first day I went down it was inevitably raining as well [View Full Entry]

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It's been an entire year since I left the sunny shores of California for the not so sunny shores of England. So I thought it was about high time I took a trip back to my adopted home. It was a fantastic trip which revolved around playing golf and playing with my dogs. What more could I have asked for!! My parents, the dogs and I jumped in our motor home on the Thursday and headed up to San Fran for a few days. Fantastic time, it was great seeing my little brother again, Sam and some of my mates from [View Full Entry]

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My great friend Christian had been telling me about this "Schutzenfest marching/drinking" weekend for a while, I think he might have even mentioned it a couple of times when we were studying in the states together. He had tried to explain this Schutzenfest thing to me many times but I could not quite grasp it other than the whole marching and drinking part. So being only a hop and a skip away from London I jumped on a German Wings flight from Stansted to Koln/Bonn to find out what all the HOOPLA was about. Before I could say "Prost!" I was [View Full Entry]

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Eurostar is amazing. Brilliant to be able to step on a train in the centre of London and off it a couple of hours later in the middle of Paris. Spent my time on the way there well, polished off a bottle of vino from SA, jumped on bus 26 to L’Emirtage and up the stairs of Vanessa and Manuels place and had a couple of beers with them whilst solving the worlds problems. Next day ran around Paris like a man possessed. I walked EVERYWHERE! It was awesome. I love, absolutely love that feeling I get when I get to [View Full Entry]

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Running the London marathon has been a goal of mine from the moment I knew I would be moving out to London. It just so happened to fall on April 22nd 2007 which also just so happened to be my 25th birthday. So what better way to ring in my quarter century than run 26.2 miles on the streets of London. I started training back in Bulgaria in Jan (altitude training) - I had this run down through the town and then headed out on the main road to the next village called Potornitzche. It was so cold, I often [View Full Entry]

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My brilliant friend, old Dave Bowman decided to pay me a visit for my birthday and to run the London Marathon. So good seeing the old geezer again, top class guy. On a bit of a whim we decided to go to Portugal and Spain the next morning at 7am. Seemed like a good idea at the time, and it probably would have been if we had not had a bender the night before till 3 in the AM and then raced to Stansted only to miss our plane, have to pay some more money and catch the flight that [View Full Entry]

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