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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 is to climb the highest mountain in Scotland, England and Wales in a weekend. Drove through the Scottish Highlands which are breath taking to say the least. Arrived at Ben Nevis around 7pm and started ... read more

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 had entered another world. It really felt as if I had stepped through some sort of portal into this crazy world where things were just not things if you know what i mean. Picked up ... read more

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 as sold out. great. Next time I went during the week early with uncle Ryan and Mikey. This time we cruised right in with our beers and vodka and made our way to Court 2 ... read more

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 at Carlos' house with a cold beer in my hand and talking shiser in German. From that BBQ on the whole weekend was very much a whirlwind blur of well drinking and marching (with some ... read more

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 ran through the snow on the sides of the road - I figured it would make me tougher which it did. Also halfway through this run was this lone house where a massive german shepard ... read more