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The Palest Guy On The Beach - Mike Fowler

Mike Fowler I'm Mike, a 25 year old Canadian who's trying to follow summer around the world over the next few months. There's no real itinerary or method to the madness but my thoughts are that I'll start off in Australia for a month or so. Land in Sydney and head north along the coast to catch some waves, do some scuba and well, do a whole lot of nothing. Maybe I'll cruise through the outback, see Uluru.....no idea, just going to take it as it comes. From Australia, I'm planning on flying into Thailand to meet some friends. We'll probably hit the beach, wake up beside a few lady boys (please no.) and drink until one of our liver's gives out. After we need to head back to Bangkok for a black market liver, I think I'll do a little loop around the rest of SE Asia for good measure. From SE Asia, I'm going to fly to London where I'll head south to Northern Africa. Gonna hit Turkey and after Turkey, I'm planning on doing the typical Eurail/Hostel cruise up through Europe back to London.

All in all, I'm just looking to experience the world, meet cool people, catch some sun and maybe enjoy a refreshing soda pop or 17 along the way.

I'll be updating this blog every time I can to keep everyone up to date with where I am, what I'm doing and so my mom will know I'm not dead.

Hope to see you on the road!

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Now, I've heard of and gone through with some pretty bad ideas in my time. Running in a throng of Spaniards dressed like idiots being chased by bulls certainly ranked right up there near the top though. I guess I really had no idea what exactly to expect before I got there. I just planned on showing up to Pamplona, running like I was being chased by death (or death with horns), laughing at the end and getting the heck out of Dodge.So I arrived about mid morning expecting to run in the afternoon and make tracks to Madrid. Well, when [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 12th 2009 | 103 Views | [diary=417756]

You are now leaving the American Zone
Bookburning Memorial
Riechstag Dome

Oh yeah, I'm supposed to be writing a blog. When I last wrote, I was up in Sweden. Wow, pretty much the whole continent away. The heat up there was incredible for some reason but luckily there was a beach pretty much in downtown Stockholm. And a beach filled with Swedes is worth the heaightened expense of the country anyday. From there it was on to Copenhagen for Canada Day. And I thought Sweden was pricey. My first (and last) meal was a $19 shawarma and can of Coke. Incredible! That's like four times the price of Canada. It's not that [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 11th 2009 | 63 Views | [diary=417452]


Sorry, no pics. I haven't been anywhere that I could take generic shots of. I've actually just spent my time going from concert to concert across Europe for 5 straight night of shows. After my last blog posting, I went to see prog masters Dream Theater in Olympic Park in Munich. It had been raining hard for 3 days so not exactly an ideal venue for a show, but luckily it kept the crowds away. Normally, Dream Theater draws upwards of 10,000 people to their shows. I was fortunate to see them in the rain in Munich with only about 1,000 [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 29th 2009 | 112 Views | [diary=413373]


Budapest certainly ended with a bang. Stayed out all night, even past hostel check out (yikes), to say a goodbye to the city. The advertised ska band we were going to see turned out to be a ska inspired rave. Oh well, sometimes being disappointed isnt quite disappointment. Next move was on to Croatia for some beach time. My train ride from Budapest to Zagreb was perhaps the most excrutiating of life though. Having not slept the night before, I was planning on sleeping the entire 6 hour train trip to, hopefully, put in a good effort on my first night [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 23rd 2009 | 106 Views | [diary=411492]

Zagreb
Ljubljana
Ljubljana

Vienna
Vienna
Hofsburg
At least somewhere in Europe knows how to treat a hockey game. Prague had all the bars open allll night long to watch the Cup final. Very much worth the stupid amount of traveling I had to take from Greece to get there. The team I was quasi hoping for won and I got to smash cheap Czech beer until sunrise so I really cant complain. Prague in itself was a super cool city too. As in, it was cold and rained the entire time I was there. But actually, it was one of the better cities Ive ever been to. [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 17th 2009 | 330 Views | [diary=409499]

Vienna
Vienna
Vienna

I haven't written anything here in almost 2 weeks. Wanna fight about it? Despite advertising free internet, most hostels I've been staying at really only give you about 15 mins, which gives enough time to type a fewq sentences and maybe upload a pic or two. And well, between trying to find a place to live upon my return to Ottawa, informing people that I am not, in fact, dead and the exhorbited prices being charged for internet here, I've been slacking. And oh, of course, I've just been out doing things that don't involve me sitting in front of a [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 12th 2009 | 105 Views | [diary=407841]

Temple of Athena Nike
Temple of Zeus The Olympian
Ancient Greece

Ummmm never have any time to update. But here's a few pictures. [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 5th 2009 | 103 Views | [diary=405570]

The Grand Bazaar
The Blue Mosque
Hagia Sophia

Chillin with Horus at Hatshepsut
Chillin with Horus at Hatshepsut
Definitely spelled that wrong.
Been a few days, but hello again. After my precarious situations with cabbies in Cairo, I thought I would be enterprising and take the public bus around for my last day here. What a rush that was. Should be an Olympic sport actually. My hotel was situated a little of 26th of July, which is a fairly major road here where cars (and apparently public buses) stop for no one. In the distance, all you see is a bus coming and you and about 20 locals start jogging up the road to get speed. The bus never stops for you, so [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 31st 2009 | 117 Views | [diary=403868]

Luxor Temple at night
The Valley of The Kings
The Valley of The Kings

Well I arrived in Egypt yesterday. I guess I chose it as one of my few around the horn stops because I'm a history nerd, and what better place to see some unique history. I took a red-eye into Cairo international and don't really know what's going on due to drinking on the plane and not really sleeping. I didn't get an Egyptian Visa at home because I heard they were easy to get at the entry point. I couldn't really get any Egyptian Pounds in Morocco either, so I just decided to show up with a Visa and bank card [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 26th 2009 | 156 Views | [diary=402333]

Giza
The Sphinx and I
Sphinx

Wow, what a couple of nights. I left off in Djemma in Marrakech to hit the hammam. Well, as expected, it wasnt my cup of tea. I left after about 10 of my cultural experience. In Casablanca, I got quite a few, 'what are you doing here looks' but it was all good in Marrakech until the hammam. There havent been many moments quite so awkward as being naked and hqving 20 naked men staring at you like you dont belong while another clothed man is attempting to scrub you despite your best French and Arabic protests. That overwith, myself and [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 23rd 2009 | 150 Views | [diary=401420]

Djemma
My hotels backyard to the Atlas Mtns
Djemma



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