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| 16th April 2009 s seaman | trip to Norway - From: Sjåk-ingly good fun I loved looking at your pictures as I lived in Norway for 6 years.I have been to the summit of a lot of their high peaks and beseggen is one of them. My family and I made the 9 hour trek with our family dog. She loved it but was the most tired I have ever seen her. She is a Norwegian flat coated retriever. Born and Bred in Stavanger. Looking at the pictures made me homesick for that beautiful country. Thanks for sharing. |
| 15th March 2007 Benedicte | Airplanes - From: The Red Skin Diaries Hey, you guy's had engines on your plane back from zanzibar?!? whoa, impressing, first class all the way I can tell!! well, with kenya airways you get to sit with all your luggage on your lap. Didn't get to do that, did you?! muahaha..... |
| 10th March 2007 Jeremy Granger | Hey! - From: The Red Skin Diaries Ian! That's great that you met up with half of the Inca group. I saw Hanna (one of the Swedes) in Sweden after we left Peru. Hopefully I'll run into you guys again sometime. I'll shoot you an email next time i'm in London. Take care. Jeremy Granger (one of the Americans from the Inca Trail) |
| 10th March 2007 Andria in SF | what took you so long? - From: The Red Skin Diaries I was wondering how long it would be before you had to get back out there! Let us know when we'll see you back out here in San Fran for a slightly less posh holiday. |
| 8th March 2007 Mr Arild | Reward - From: The Red Skin Diaries Kili "not nearly as rewarding.." The Gold Diploma of mine is now laminated and hanging behind a glass wall in the middle of the living room. I had to remove the herring head which previously filled that honoroble position. Dont cry sport. Will take the Ubamwe route next year! |
| 16th November 2006 dym | sunset drive - From: Clown fish, buckets of vodka, and underwater booty i didn't see the clown fish any where |
| 3rd September 2006 Hickling | Touching Finale - From: Crap - I appear to have mislayed £22k Good shit, Ian. Looking forward to next year's blog. |
| 23rd August 2006 Andria in SF | - From: Crap - I appear to have mislayed £22k Great wrap - now eagerly awaiting my autographed printed edition of the travel blog! Welcome back to "the real world" (in a Matrix sort of way, I'm sure it still feels... Love, Andria :) |
| 22nd August 2006 james | thank you - From: Crap - I appear to have mislayed £22k Ian, that was a great read. I really envy you, in a good way... no. Actually I just envy you. j |
| 25th July 2006 Heywood Jablomi | wait a second - From: Calming down in Washington there'll be one more "well fed drunk looking for an easy buck" in London come your return on 30 July |
| 22nd July 2006 Andria | The Worm Lives! - From: Worm's underground adventures Fictional? What do you mean fictional?! We're going to send him after you with piercing apparatus in mouth... |
| 19th June 2006 Jennifer | good fun - From: Final days in South America ian, i've really enjoyed your journal since i happened upon it while perusing for tales from brazil. it reminds me a bit of "inka cola", whose author's name i have forgotten, but which is similarly entertaining and funny. enjoy costa rica. i lived there for a year and loved it. costa ricans rival the brazilians in their friendly, open manner. i recommend a hike thru rincon de la vieja. plus it's small--you can see virtually every corner and be amazed by how much you've done. in any event, keep writing it all down. please. best, jen. |
| 16th June 2006 Darren | Superman Pose! - From: Final days in South America I had one of those pictures done in a booth in Blackpool once except I was on Del Boys back. No really, it looks awesome mate, for a small dude you've got some screaming balls of steel. |
| 16th June 2006 Heywood Jablomi | indeed - From: Into the Abyss just like that film the twelve monkeys |
| 16th June 2006 Jeremy Granger | Thanks - From: Final days in South America Hey Ian, Looks like you really had an amazing adventure through South America. I had a great time going over table manners with you and Chris during our Inca Trail hike. If for some reason you find yourself in San Antonio, Texas then you have a friend and a free place to stay here. Take care. Your friend, Jeremy |
| 14th June 2006 Hickling | Spooky Abismo - From: Into the Abyss Ian, have you noted the random interloper is you in 30 years time? (different hat though) |
| 24th May 2006 Oliver | Mouthfulls of cojones - From: Brokeback mountains of steak Looks like Jose put you through your paces, Ian. His cojones tended towards the gamey, I imagine. |
| 16th May 2006 Hickling | cojones - From: Serenity, steaks and sea lions So, Alex is off the hook. Yada yada. Lot's of chat Ian; it looks like you're trying to delay the inevitable. Let us move on: Eat some testicles, Ian. I seem to remember Alex eating some dodgy bone marrow, after all. You owe him this. |
| 13th May 2006 Unemployed Ian | The chippy comment... - From: Serenity, steaks and sea lions ...didn't come from Alex, but from a place that I believe youngsters call 'Cyber-space' in their vernacular. Alex apologises anyway for other bad things he has done. |
| 11th May 2006 Unemployed Ian | Alex apologises for being arsey... - From: Serenity, steaks and sea lions ...and he also seems to be wrong. Hardly a meal has gone by without a waitress engouraging me to have a testicle (I may be mistranslating their responses). |
| 11th May 2006 Hickling | cojones - From: Serenity, steaks and sea lions Whatever their origin, eat some testicles Ian. Then write about it. |
| 10th May 2006 John | - From: Serenity, steaks and sea lions Spianards eat cojones, argentines dont. Argentina food is based on pasta and steaks...no cojones. |
| 10th May 2006 Unemployed Ian | Getting robbed - From: Serenity, steaks and sea lions Just after finishing this and downloading the pix, my camera was nicked by a gang (I feel the collective noun should be 'bunchofwankers') of professional thieves. My conversational spanish is coming on a treat, and I discussed wine and Bolivan women with the policeman, but not, unfortunately, the whereabouts of my camera. I haven't tried the cojones yet, but hear they are especially nice when cooked 'al dente'. |
| 9th May 2006 John Turnbull | Molsey Mentions - From: Serenity, steaks and sea lions We too thought Argentina nice, what we saw of it. Have you eaten cojones? How's your basic conversational Spanish? |
| 30th April 2006 Camilla ;) | Drink some wine for me too... - From: Being Howard Hughes in Chile in Santiago and go to Kilkennys bar in Buenos Aires... great place!!! I hope you'll have nice weather in Argentina :) The horseriding sounded great! Take care. |
| 27th April 2006 deleted_3265 | Great Bolivian Adventures. - From: Doing dangerous things in Bolivia Hope you've escaped the rain in Chile. For better weather (and cheaper wine), you can try your luck on the other side of the border... Wahib. |
| 18th April 2006 Darren | Nice One...... - From: Doing dangerous things in Bolivia Aaaah, that takes me back to the time when I lived with Oly. Our Toilet was never that clean....!! Keep up the blogging big guy, we need more filth. See you in July!! |
| 15th April 2006 Camilla ;) | Do you want to die, Ian? - From: Doing dangerous things in Bolivia Are you crazy? I have met you, so I didn't have to ask you that question actually. Mountain biking? It seems like you decided to live a bit longer after doing this though. Thats good Ian. Hang in there! And I have one question: Did they make a drink of the donkey "milk" and alcohol, like a cocktail? |
| 15th April 2006 Justin Crozier | That picture. - From: Doing dangerous things in Bolivia I can almost smell that toilet. The photo makes a tremendous screensaver. You are a poet of the digital image, Ian. |
| 15th April 2006 Camilla ;) | Could you buy me a brain? - From: Spanish lessons I would really like a brain. Can you buy one for me? I enjoyed the picture(the fat between the gut is nice, huh?), but I'm sick by the way. The gut looks quite big, obstruction maybe? |
| 12th April 2006 Camilla | Did you have to? - From: Smoking Llama vs The Giant Spiders Hey, did you have to tell the whole world about my drinking problem. I am trying to quit anyway. But, Ian, your blog is really great!! |
| 10th April 2006 Brendan | I am going in July - From: Wedding in Bogota ice break down of the trip. Sounds like a blast. I'm a New Yorker here and me and my wife are going to Bogota in July for my brother's wedding. I can't wait. Any must sees or restaurants i have to hit in Bogota? That's the stuff I like...food and drink of different countries. Drop me an email if you ever get this Brecurtin21@stny.rr.com Again..nice blog very informative Brendan Curtin |
| 6th April 2006 Cocal | Brains... - From: Spanish lessons Oh man, that pic made me sick! :S hehehe... |
| 4th April 2006 Andria in SF | yum... - From: Spanish lessons ...brains. |
| 29th March 2006 Unemployed Ian | Since you asked... - From: Smoking Llama vs The Giant Spiders The 12 day tour of Peru was with GAP Adventures and called 'Andes to Amazon'. A bloody marvellous trip, and well organised. |
| 23rd March 2006 Robbo | - From: Smoking Llama vs The Giant Spiders Next giant spider shot could you include a 50 pence piece to give us the scale? Would also be good if you do see the anacondas (although we might get an idea of the scale from the Ian shaped lump in it's middle). |
| 21st March 2006 Christian Harran | - From: Smoking Llama vs The Giant Spiders if you look closely you can tell the pictures of ian and myself have been super imposed on the backgrounds and the pictures of wild life come from National geographic - we were really in Vegas for two weeks |
| 20th March 2006 Heywood Jablomi | wally - From: Smoking Llama vs The Giant Spiders Ian - are you sure you didn't teach Wally that trick about emptying the bin, throwing bananas and then soiling yourself? If memory serves, you did exactly the same thing in 2000 when you volunteered to help me move house. |
| 8th March 2006 Heywood Jablomi | of burger bondage - From: Wedding in Bogota Ian - excellent summary of the trip. Although you should have mentioned the time at the burger restaurant when Jon started whining because there was a tomato on his plate (nowhere near his burger) but still its presence "offended" him |
| 5th March 2006 AQlLpool | very drole - From: Smells like Las Vegas I dont know you and came upon your blog by chance, but your observations made me laugh out loud! It is a cold grey snowy day here in liverpool so thank you. |
| 1st March 2006 Chris | Hyphens - From: Journey to the Mutterland Mm. You've tried sky diving twice and, coincidentally, fallen asleep on bar stools twice. Are you not dreaming the whole thing? Also, it's a shame I didn't mention the NZ Hicking contingent (Auckland), they'd have really shown you how to go toe-to-toe, ex-pat style. Good luck in S America mate. |
| 1st March 2006 Sharon | - From: Journey to the Mutterland See Ian, it ain't that bad eh? |
| 1st March 2006 Olly | Sea cucumber - From: Journey to the Mutterland Ah, Ian, just think. While you were communing with baby seals, I was doing my impression of a certain sea cucumber, in the bogs of 50 story office block. I'm sure we were both at peace with the world. |
| 27th February 2006 Tom | - From: Visiting yet another colony of the Empire I thought we took it as read that every night involved Ian falling asleep in pubs (casinos, stip clubs) at 2am after several shots of sambucca (gin, vodka, rum, ethanol)? He can't write this down in his blog every time. |
| 26th February 2006 matt & pete | sambucca - From: Visiting yet another colony of the Empire g'day mate! Noticed you didn't mention anything about your alcoholic state whilst in Sydney, falling asleep on pub stools at 2am after several shots of sambucca... Or that they sent out a search party to rescue us whilst kayaking... We had a great time in Fraser Island, certainly recommend it if you can fit it in. See you back in Oz / UK. |
| 17th February 2006 Jakob | - From: My first true blog So you wouldn't advice me not to go to Nepal in the end of March then? I trusting my life in you. Remember that. |
| 13th February 2006 Oliver | Take a Girl Like Ian - From: Clown fish, buckets of vodka, and underwater booty Ah, a virgin's progress amongst gay bell-hops. Someone should write a novel about this. |
| 13th February 2006 Alex Davies | you go girl - From: Clown fish, buckets of vodka, and underwater booty Ian - your mojo seems to have returned (albeit with the wrong sex). perhaps it's because "Ian's got back" as the rappers say. |
| 8th February 2006 Chris | Painful Blog Withdrawl - From: Smells like Las Vegas Where are you now in your cheap suit? |
| 7th February 2006 mj | bah - From: Smells like Las Vegas You don't know me, but i've enjoyed reading about your exploits. What good fun!! |
