High dam stats: # 3.6km in length # 1.0 km in width # 111m high @ highest point # Has 18 x the amount of material uses for the great temple of Khofu # 35000 workers involved in construction # 451 of which died in the process Got into aswan after pretty much no sleep on the train and we got picked up and taken to the hotel. Then went on a tour of the high dam (which provides most of egypt's power) then a short boat ride to philae (Agilkia Is). Where the Isis temple complex had been moved stone [View Full Entry]

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Kissing the sphinx, camel rides in the desert, 6000 yr old pyramids,"my fren U come in my shop, I give U good price!", 30m under the ground in a solid stone burrial chamber, hyroglifics, big pyramids & some crazy arsed driving! This was Cairo for us! We decided to go to egypt! so we flew to cairo, found a hostel, toured around down town & managed not to be killed by the phyco drivers! Then a huge bazzar with shops galor and soo much hassel, look in my shop, whats your name, where ya from? But we found a top baklavar [View Full Entry]

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My nose is frooze! My toes is frooze! This is me going up the T-bar lift to the highest peak (over 3000m) & it was bloody cold! Then rippin down this bloody steap run. I can actually bloody ski! I got to stay for another week, top stuff & it was pretty much the same as the last. But we had less staff, less clients & i could actually ski! & was luvin it! We finished up on saturday then we where free! So on Sunday we where on the 1ST CHAIR LIFT up da hill! I skied with Pete, Rich [View Full Entry]

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3hrs sleep, still boozed/hung over then a 6 hour skiing marathon then finishing the day of with a few hrs baby sitting that night, so extremely buggered! We arrived in Flims & got settled in @ the mou, then had a tour around the hotels the clients where stayin in (4 n 5 star action) had a meeting. The next day we hit the slopes, yer I can’t ski! Everyone else where gun skiers & I was crap, so they waited for me and helped me & gave me a few pointers (nice 1 guys). On Saturday all the clients arrived [View Full Entry]

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I GOT THE JOB! I got a call on the arvie of me b’day that I scored the ski job in Switzerland so a train/ferry/train back to London for a training day then the next day we all flew to Zurich. The ski resort I was @ was flims bout 1 n a half hrs from Zurich & the company I worked for was Powder Byrne. (They organize and cater holidays for rich English people) My job was as yeti assistant to look after and help teach the kids to ski while the parents skied all day! Even though I had [View Full Entry]

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How to get the most out of your b’day! 2:01pm on the 2nd of feb (Holland time) it was 12:01am on the 3rd (AUS time)! This is when D.O.T. A began, so me n beans went for a beer in a coffee shop, cruised around town n the park on da bikes. Then back to the hostel for bevs with the gang. Said my goodbyes to Jess n beans and went to see the real big fish in concert just up the road with my Israeli /French roomy. Bloody good concert! Then back to the hostel for bevs then out again, [View Full Entry]

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Drugs n sex & more drugs n sex! U r confronted with it all round in Dam & it's all legal!! If u go into a coffee shop & ask for a menu, u won't get a menu of the expresso's & capachino's!! D1 in da Dam- got to the hostel plannin to have a quite 1, then an aussie lad in my dorm asked me if i wanted to come out on the town? yer sure mate! so we went out (an aus & brazilian chick & a lad from S. Africa) So we had a few bev's, looked at [View Full Entry]

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Bundies, T.E.D's & a meat pie @ da walkabout pub! Not a bad way to spend AUS day in london! I came back to london for a job interview, so i stayed wih Lato the first nite (cheers Lato). On the 26th I doned the beer tree shirt & the volley's (nice 1 dad) & hit the walkabout. I got stuck into the aussie bev's, dbl bundy n cokes, T.E.D''s, XXXX, a meat pie, chattin shit to random aussie's & a live band playin aus covers, top day! Then later @ nite, Ned & richard met me & we went to [View Full Entry]

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Crazy damn Aussie!! (In an american accent) I cruised off the road in my scooter, down an embankment, through some trees and hit the skids & come to a stop at the edge of a drop off into the sea! Pretty nice beach down there lasds! We ( 2 american lads & a canadian guy) decided to go to an island off athens for the day to go exploring. So we cought the ferry over to Aegina Is ( 1 of those hydro foil boats that sit up above the H2O) We got there & had some grilled octopus & a [View Full Entry]

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Sitting on the roof of the hostel with the Acropolis right in front of me havin a beer, olives & feta watching a shit hot sunset, awesome! After a 30 hr boat cruise (this ship was huge, bars, restaurants, a disco & an empty pool!) & a 3 hr bus trip I finally got into Athens. But the metro had just stopped @ 12 so I had to get a taxi but the driver didn’t really know where to go and had no English. So he dropped me closish to the hostel & after a bit of walkin about I [View Full Entry]

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