Stephen Abbott
Me and the wife have gone travelling for a year. We're from Yorkshire, England. It’s our mission to travel the world to see if there is anywhere that does better chips and gravy than our local chippy. First stop Argentina, last stop Bangkok and a whole lot of gubbins in between.chipsandgravy
Travel Blog Posts
May 15th 2012
We are sat on our bed in our hotel room in Kampot, Cambodia eating crisps and listening to our Cambodian neighbours pumping out some amped up karaoke. There is a man and a woman and they are dueting and have been doing so for the past hour. They are absolutely shocking. Last night they did the same but thankfully there was a power cut which kept them quiet for a while. They are the type of nutters that make X Factor interesting. So where were we? Ah yes we were in Sumatra and I had the brown apple splatters. After a few days of doing nowt and recuperating we left lake Toba on what was to be one of the more eventful trips of our travels (holiday) to Ubud, Bali. We headed over Lake Toba on ... read more
One of them had an axe and one had a panda hat on
Published: April 22nd 2012Oceania » Australia » New South Wales
April 22nd 2012
It’s just turned 12 noon and we’re still in our PJ’s, sat on our balcony overlooking lake Toba on the beautiful island of Sumatra, Indonesia. There is an old Indonesian guy in the room next to us singing along to the Smiths, the sun is shining; the temperature is perfect and the scenery stunning. Judith’s relaxing, having a cup of tea, reading the Lonely Planet and Footprint guidebooks planning the next leg of the trip. She’s debating whether we should head to Bali or travel straight to Cambodia. I on the other hand am desperately trying to clench my butt cheeks together as hard as I can to stop a repeat of what has made me so well acquainted with the toilet in the past 24 hours. We arrived in Sumatra about a week ago and ... read more
If you’re a good boy Jack, when we get home we can watch Platoon
Published: April 2nd 2012Oceania » New Zealand » South Island
April 2nd 2012
She’s a man eater make you doo doo making la la doo doo dee of your love. Excellent, that’s exactly 9 weeks that I’ve had ‘Man Eater’ by Nelly Furtado in my head. Hello everyone. It’s our last day in New Zealand today so we thought we’d celebrate it by sitting in an internet café/ karaoke bar/ dungeon in the centre of Auckland. I was a bit dubious about some of the furnishings around the place and thought the karaoke rooms looked a bit too ‘comfy’ if you get my meaning. If you don’t get my meaning I think it was a knocking shop. If you still don’t get my meaning then don’t worry about it. I’ve then spent the last 45 minutes listening to this massive psycho looking Danish dude who was telling me (shouting ... read more
February 19th 2012
G’day Bro’s Happy Valentines Day! Yes they even celebrate this crap here in New Zealand. Oh yes and there are Easter eggs in the shop already. How splendid. It is more like England out here than you think. Eerily like England. They drive on the left, there’s an obesity problem, erm people speak English. Actually I think that’s about it. We have just arrived in South Island and have pulled in to a delightful campsite on the river front about 30km from the Marlborough Sound. No its not a music festival sponsored by a tobacco company, no no no, it’s a series of bays, islands, coves and waterways formed by the sea flooding its deep valleys after the ice ages, or summat. I’m not saying that our trip has turned into a year long Geography field ... read more
January 25th 2012
Kia Ora ya big bloomin kangaroo or what ever they say here in New Zealand. Yes we’ve finally arrived in New Zooland. The sun is shining, we’ve bought a campervan (car with a mattress in it) and we’re ready for some outdoor living. Our van (car with a mattress in it) is called Burman and don’t you even dare say a bad word about him because we love him. Alright? We’re on a bit of a posh campsite at the moment, outside Auckland. There is a beautiful view of the sea with wildlife all around. There is this bird that keeps trying to steal food off our table and I keep saying, “stop it Judith!” Chortle chortle. Its 11am and we’re still in our PJ’s, I’m having a cup of PG Tips and Judith is pottering ... read more
January 8th 2012
Happy New Year Comrades O…M…G I am like so travel (holiday) fatigued right now. I am looking forward to going back to work for a bit of a break. I’m going to totally like rest up in this hostel for a few days just to get my breath back and get me undies washed an that cos I’ve been turning them inside out for a few days now and I can’t remember which way up they are supposed to be. I’m not holiday fatigued really but I do need to wash me duds. Why am I telling you about my grundies you ask? I don’t know. Why don’t you ask your local MP or whatever. We’re in Boquete, Panama. Judith’s bricking it, thinking we’re going to end up in that prison of Prison Break season 2. ... read more
I totally like spilt my fanta all down my new top
Published: December 14th 2011Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua
December 14th 2011
Good Morning Chicos It is so hot here I could puke. We are in Granada, Nicaragua and I’m wowing the locals with my un-bronzed un-Adonis like physique. Not long before we left to go travelling (holiday) I met someone who said, “oh wow you’re going travelling, you are going to lose so much weight.” Right, I’ve just met you and you have already made your mind up that I am a bit flabby. But as it turns out this judgemental bint was correct. We are 4 months in to the day and I have in fact lost a fair bit of timber. This has not however been through choice (or exercise) but the fact that about 3 weeks ago I found out that I had a parasite living happily in my stomach which we reckon had ... read more
November 18th 2011
Word up Gangsters I am so hot right now. Not in an attractive way, more a temperature way. Well maybe a bit of both. If I manage to get through writing this blog without the computer exploding on account of the amount of sweat dripping onto the keyboard, then it’ll be a miracle. I don’t think going out for fish soup for lunch has helped us to be fair. We are currently in Belize in a town called Hopkins. We are staying in an apartment for the week (9 days to be precise) and trying to catch up with ourselves before we head off to Honduras. There is a hostel next door who own the apartment and we regularly head around there to chat to the complete and utter morons which it seems to attract. I ... read more
Machu Picchu or the ‘lost’ city of the Incas
Published: December 9th 2011South America » Peru » Arequipa
November 1st 2011
Ey up Chicos We are sat in the food court in Lima airport outside Manos Morenas and Parados Chicken awaiting our flight to Guatemala which leaves in about 4 hours. We’ve already been here about 2 hours and I’ve eaten half a chicken and I feel a bit sick. There’s a man on the table next to me who keeps looking at me and looks the spit of Dustin Hoffman with a jerry curl, sporting the biggest bumbag I’ve ever seen. We’ve been travelling for 3 days to get here and we arrive tomorrow morning into Guatemala City about 8am where we will be promptly picking up a bus to Antigua, as we understand that Guatemala City is quite the crapiest of holes. Our journey to get here has taken us one day by boat from ... read more
Bolivia, its nearly amazing
Published: December 9th 2011South America » Bolivia » Cochabamba Department
October 12th 2011
Ey up Gringos We’re in Arequipa , Peru . But uuughhh I’m dying. I’m ill. You wouldn’t understand. Uggghh. I would kill everyone in this hostel just to be back at home on the couch with a cup of Yorkshire Tea and a couple of slices of toast. But I’ll fight my way through it cos I’m a man, a man’s man that just gets on with it and does it my way. I always say, ‘what would Chuck Norris do?’ He’d probably punch himself in the stomach until he was better. Beat those bugs up with his fists, no time for those white blood cells to sort it out. Yeah, that’s what I’ll do. “Cheers love.” Judith’s just got back from the shop with a bottle of water for me and a bag of ready ... read more
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