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| 31st December 2009 sprucemoose | - From: What's an Uzbekistan? i know you do, but that's an adults-only story and hence i didnt write about it on here. wait a few more mths! |
| 29th December 2009 Hutcho | - From: What's an Uzbekistan? I want to hear more about being kissed by two old ladies, circumcision parties and 2 live goats in car boots. |
| 21st December 2009 lurpak34 | Only me - From: What's an Uzbekistan? Great pics, great text. The Aral "Sea" is an area I've been meaning to visit for a long time. Thanks.. |
| 20th December 2009 Dean | - From: What's an Uzbekistan? Wow, what a great blog. Love the pics but the way you have explained the country is amazing. Might go there myself some day... |
| 19th December 2009 Spirit Traveler | Beautiful Work - From: What's an Uzbekistan? Kik but! Your a natural, I appreciate your humanity. |
| 19th December 2009 anonymous | - From: What's an Uzbekistan? Wow, who knew Uzbekistan was this interesting? I love the architecture!! Nisrine |
| 19th December 2009 Cessna152 | - From: What's an Uzbekistan? Loved this entry. |
| 11th December 2009 His Dudeness | Greetings from Samarkand - From: Buzkashi or: How I learned to stop worrying and love polo played with a dead goat Well, Homer Simpson, seems like you get around! Good meeting up with you in Khiva! Crap photo's, but I didn't expect any different from you! Ha, ha, ha... Just kidding, great shots... But why weren't you participating? |
| 5th December 2009 Karolien | - From: Buzkashi or: How I learned to stop worrying and love polo played with a dead goat Wow, what a story! I can't wait to visit Kyrgyzstan. I love nature and beautiful nature (your other blog entry) combined with horsebackriding is for sure the best thing in the world. What did you do in Kyrgyzstan, the 6 months that you stayed there? |
| 11th November 2009 nes | wow! - From: May The Force Be With You great homepage, i am very happy about your experiences in my homecountry^^ come again! :D |
| 1st November 2009 sprucemoose | - From: Buzkashi or: How I learned to stop worrying and love polo played with a dead goat i may or may not have wet myself on occasion when writing this blog. but you cant blame me, buzkashi is just too incredible, really. |
| 31st October 2009 Hutcho | KYRGYZSTAN! - From: Buzkashi or: How I learned to stop worrying and love polo played with a dead goat Getting a little excited while writing this were you Justin! |
| 31st October 2009 Hutcho | Kymyz - From: The Way of the Nomad I can only assume that I too would love it. Also the river looks small, very small and shallow! |
| 29th October 2009 Joel Meadows | Demigods of the Jailoos!!! - From: Buzkashi or: How I learned to stop worrying and love polo played with a dead goat Wow! i feel like i was there watching the game with you jc! awesome commentary mate and even better photos! wish i could have actually been there with you! GO BUZKASHI! :) |
| 29th October 2009 Fellow Traveller | This is incredible - From: Buzkashi or: How I learned to stop worrying and love polo played with a dead goat You are lucky to witness this feat of skill and strength..."Just like in the movies!"... What movies have you seen with men playing games with headless goats? haha. Great action shots! |
| 28th October 2009 Adrienne Pilon | Awesome entry - From: Buzkashi or: How I learned to stop worrying and love polo played with a dead goat Great entry, great pics. I got hooked by the title and kept on reading. |
| 27th October 2009 sprucemoose | haha cheers joelo - From: The Way of the Nomad but maybe its the microsoft windows desktop that looks like kyrgyzstan...? :) |
| 27th October 2009 Joel | awesome! - From: The Way of the Nomad wow, i never knew that kyrgyzstan was so green! it looks like the microsoft windows desktop! :P really cool pics man and awesome that you managed to interact so much with the locals! the Great White Hype will no doubt be happy to hear that you enjoyed kymyz! :) |
| 6th October 2009 anonymous | - From: Feel the Rhythm, Feel the Rhyme, Get on up, It's Bobsled time... COOL RUNNINGS! its awsome |
| 4th October 2009 MISHA of NM | - From: Why Finland? I guess this is a bit late, but I loved reading this! I am a hopeful to exchange to Finland next year and I'm just so excited! Like, Finland is just one of those countries that.. well, you aren't sure why you love it but you /just do/. And so I hope I end up loving Finland just as much if not more than I do now. Thanks for writing this! |
| 25th August 2009 Joel | Awesome! - From: Justin vs The People's Republic of China (Tibet) Great blog mate with some really awesome photos that not only captured the amazing scenery but also gave us a great insight into daily life in Tibet. Also cool to hear that looking Indian worked out for you for a change. I remember in Tunisia no one would believe you were Australian and didn't want to talk to you... :P |
| 11th August 2009 Hutcho | I liked it! - From: Justin vs The People's Republic of China (Tibet) Put simply that was the best blog I have ever read anywhere ever in the world ever at any time or place ever. Seriously :) |
| 10th August 2009 Danny N | Snake blood... - From: Justin swallows a snake's heart in a shotglass of snake's blood (and other adventures) During my trip to Vietnam, my Vietnamese driver told me I don't need to chew the snake heart...just swallow it. |
| 10th August 2009 Aron@hotels in hawaii | amazing post - From: Justin vs The People's Republic of China (Tibet) Thanks I occasionally saw this blog really its too good and informative for me, thanks for wonderful post .hotels in hawaii |
| 12th July 2009 Ellie | nice one! - From: Why Finland? Truly luv the details.. |
| 5th July 2009 Hutcho | Nice - From: Justin vs The People's Republic of China (Yunnan) Great blog mate, loved the attempts at avoiding entrance fees. Viva vagabonding. Reminds me of how I just walked into a site in Tunisia before you guys were there. Dan 1 - Tunisia 0 :) |
| 3rd July 2009 kevin | whitey - From: Justin vs The People's Republic of China (Yunnan) all people crossing into China from Northern Pakistan - ie. a busload a day of about 20 folks during the summer months when the pass isn't snowed over - are checked very carefully on both ends of the border - white folks included. Bags are emptied, grim faces yell 'no photo', and apples for the journet are confiscated and destroyed! |
| 3rd July 2009 sprucemoose | - From: Justin vs The People's Republic of China (Yunnan) So you actually answered your own qn! |
| 3rd July 2009 simon | - From: Justin vs The People's Republic of China (Yunnan) You really made me dreaming to visit Yunnan. There's only one thing which I do not understand neither share. It's fine trying to spare and limit costs but why are you scandalized if you have to pay a fee to visit a place and so obsessed in wanting to have everything for free? An entrance fee is required in a lot of places around the world, it's not a prerogative of China! The question instead is what use Chinese are doing of the fees, as I strongly doubt they are spent for art and nature conservation but most likely are treated like a form of bribery to enrich a few people. But that's another story. http://exxxplorer.wordpress.com/ |
| 3rd July 2009 anonymous | Great blog.... - From: Justin vs The People's Republic of China (Yunnan) Nice one. I'd be waiting to read ur blog on Tibet. Amazing photos, btw. |
| 2nd July 2009 Robert | Why Finland? women, doh! - From: Why Finland? Why Finland? Obviously because of the women!! happy travels justin! im enjoyin perth for now! :-) |
| 3rd June 2009 joel | haha - From: Justin swallows a snake's heart in a shotglass of snake's blood (and other adventures) glad you finally found your precious snake blood shot mate! and also glad i wasn't there... :P looking forward to the next one! |
| 1st May 2009 Veli Jussi | My home country - From: Why Finland? Stumbled on your article and absolutely loved it. I left Tampere as a child in 58 and have not been back but your delightful description has truly inspired me/. The girls look just like my daughter. I must come back to my roots for a homecoming. Thank you |
| 13th April 2009 Eeva | Thanks - From: Why Finland? Hey, was reading through your Finland-memoirs, great fun, thanks! But it did make me sad that I couldn't spend more time with you that year (being "inhumanely busy":D. I have to correct, though, that I wasn't president of the whole law society, just a smaller branch and some major happenings). But I'm so glad you had fun and many great experiences! So now that I actually have a normal work rythm and VACATIONS (!), it would be great to see you in Australia sometime in 2010 when you get back there. Have fun in on-going travels! Be safe! Greets, Eeva |
| 10th April 2009 anonymous | title - From: Justin swallows a snake's heart in a shotglass of snake's blood (and other adventures) haha the first thing i saw on ur blog thing was "justin swallows..." take it easy |
| 16th March 2009 Ryan | ... - From: Justin swallows a snake's heart in a shotglass of snake's blood (and other adventures) ... dude. |
| 15th March 2009 Hutcho | Great Blog Title - From: Justin swallows a snake's heart in a shotglass of snake's blood (and other adventures) Glad to see your having fun, conveyed in a very long blog =) |
| 15th March 2009 Gunga | Just returned- traffic no better in Hanoi ! - From: Justin swallows a snake's heart in a shotglass of snake's blood (and other adventures) Oh, your snake story was so gross but so much fun to read. I just returned yesterday from a month in Vietnam( Hanoi, HaLong Bay, Hue and HoiAn- loved it there); Siem Reap( hotter than hell!), and Laos. I completely agree with you about Laos being a sweet, laid back place. We stopped at the same gas station! Great piece of writing. Carolyn ( blogger name/Gunga) |
| 25th February 2009 Sandra | I loved it - From: Why Finland? Hi! I loved reading your article, I have never been to Finland, though I have a finnish friend who falls in your category of crazy =) I definitely have to go... It was very pleasant to read this |
| 20th December 2008 Sui | Feeling the same - From: Why Finland? Hey Justin, I think you very well expressed all the feelings that I have myself about Finland, Finnish people and Finnish culture. What I call "the Finnish soul". Me too, people all the time ask me, why Finland?, why do you like so much Finnish people?, and I also don't have a good answer for that questions, but the first think I usually think about is "I don't know...Finnish people are so unique (strange?), but so nice". Now, I'm really happy that I found a "Finnish connection" here in Paris :) Cheers! |
| 30th May 2008 Stephan | Wonderful story - From: Why Finland? As an Austrian who has not only been together with a beautiful Finnish girl for almost five years, I've also been working in Helsinki now for over two months. I've had similar experiences during my many stays in this wonderful country and I have to agree with you. Fins are crazy!!! CRAZY!!! Give them booze and all hell brakes loose. Literally. I've been a witness :-) But like you said yourself, these people are wonderfully kind after you spend some time with them. Not everything is golden but that goes for every country. However the biggest challenge (despite my countless short stays) - to survive the harsh Finnish winters with basically NO SUNLIGHT - lies still ahead of me. Thanks again for sharing your wonderful everyday occurrences . Good luck with finding your own Finnish girl - I certainly have. |
| 6th May 2008 Deronda | International Significance - From: Why Finland? In the mineral processing industry, the company Outokumpu is very internationally significant. |
| 13th April 2008 anonymous | - From: Chasing A Ferry By Train Sounds like the normal routine for mediterranean (east) travelling. |
| 1st February 2008 Leah | Eye opener - From: On The Spur Of The Moment Hey. Swede here aswell. I live in the beautifull part of stockholm called Sodermalm. Really gotta say that your blogg opend my eyes. I guess living here makes you to used to it all. Ive taken it for granted. Loved the pictures aswell. |
| 22nd November 2007 Chi | - From: The City of the Future Shanghai!!! Have to go there someday... must be a great city! :) |
| 23rd September 2007 anonymous | - From: So This Is Why They Snowboard In Heaven Of particularly terrible skill were people such as Madan and Elena, who can add "sucking at snowboarding" to their things-in-common list. hahaahhaahh QFT |
| 31st August 2007 stone | - From: So This Is Why They Snowboard In Heaven it is really amazing snowboarding story, i never heard of it, because my area never snowing, i really enjoy this story :D www.edward-adventures.com |
| 31st August 2007 Joel | Brutally honest! :) - From: So This Is Why They Snowboard In Heaven I particularly loved your descriptions of each individuals snowboarding prowess! :P however you overlooked ziggy! can you please make meantion on his sublime carving skills and acrobatic jumps and olleys! |
| 23rd June 2007 sprucemoose | Rebuttal - From: Photos O how foolish and ignorant you truly are. 1) Your foolishness is inherent in your personality and needs no further argument. 2) Your ignorance is displayed by the fact that you have done something similar to that of which you accuse me. Remember your first blog, which you probably wrote from Perth about your future travel plans. I.e. you too had written a blog without having done any travelling to write about. O the nerve you have for accusing me of such "disgraceful behaviour", when you yourself have done the same. Step down from your high pedastal and heed the faults you have displayed. Think before you speak, my friend, so that your folly need not be bestowed upon the world for all to mock. |
| 22nd June 2007 Hutcho | Confusion - From: Photos So you've written a blog but you haven't actually been travelling anywhere. Discraceful behaviour. See you in a couple of weeks. |
| 17th June 2007 ziggy | OMG - From: Photos i saw your blog title and was like "zomg im going to write choice ey bro". i was so damn excited, then i read the actual blog where you added it in at the end. "farking justin" said an exasperated zichung. you also forgot to mention my name in your blog. |
| 13th May 2007 Mel | I Agree - From: Four Years In Hell Just got back from visiting Sarajevo, as well as Zagreb, Croatia, and Austria. I knew about the "Sarajevo roses" but when you see it up close, it smacks you in the face that these people lived in sheer terror everyday. One burek shopowner talked to us for two hours about how bad things are still as far as the economy is concerned. I'll be relocating to Sarajevo in the fall for a year and look forward to not being a tourist but a local. |
| 20th April 2007 J. Timothy M. | what a year eh! - From: The End of the Beginning "I had left Perth a young boy at 19, all to return a man at 21." rofl i hope you typed this with a smile on your face! :P let's do it all again mate! south east asia 2008??? maybe you can return as a warrior or something... :P |
| 20th April 2007 Joel | cheers bro - From: Four Years In Hell thanks for sharing this moving blog with us all. it took me right back to when i was wandering the streets of sarajevo in bewilderment. best blog so far for sure. |
| 19th April 2007 sashi | we have a town hall?! - From: The End of the Beginning (read subject) |
| 18th April 2007 clara | great times.. - From: A Mixed Bag justin....great, really i just read through your blog and really had to laugh out loud at your part about our ski/snowboard trip...and also i remembered that i actually was supposed to give you the fotos i took when we were on the slopes..but i think i nerver did, but joel has all of them... |
| 18th April 2007 Hutcho | - From: The End of the Beginning And only 3 months late |
| 18th April 2007 ziggy | - From: The End of the Beginning im still taller than you jusin |
| 15th April 2007 Julia | - From: Chilling Out In The Second Best Hostel In Europe i'm polish. your opinion about poland is funny :)! haha, really good :D ! juleczka1818@wp.pl |
| 14th April 2007 sashi | impressive blog justin.. - From: Four Years In Hell every time i start questioning your intellect you go and pull something like this.. |
| 11th April 2007 Nicky | - From: Four Years In Hell I really liked reading how Sarajevo affected you, and the thinking you'd done about it. I also found my time in Sarajevo very meaningful, and I wish them all the best in trying to get themselves back together. If only they'd stop voting along ethnic lines! Pretty understandable though. |
| 11th April 2007 asra | - From: Four Years In Hell This blog entry reveals a very humane side of your travel experience. The ability to reflect and put urself in the shoes of other people who have witnessed horrific times is not commonly expressed by people in general. Congratulations on your bold attempt and unfortunately its also true that similar atrocties are still being perpetuated in the world in war ravaged Iraq. |
| 10th April 2007 anonymous | - From: Four Years In Hell Great blog, and very poignant I might add too. It's jut another indication that traveling opens one's mind and can often change one's perspective, in many ways showing how similar people are. If everyone in this world could travel for a time in their lives I think the world would be a better place, at least more tolerant and peaceful. And if they can't travel, then at least they can read a blog like this one to gain perspective. Can't wait for the next entry |
| 10th April 2007 Cessna152 | - From: Four Years In Hell Absolutely fantastic blog - one of the best I've read on this website. I was drawn to it because I'm going to Sarajevo myself in the summer. Looking forward to it even more after reading this. Thanks. Jason |
| 20th March 2007 sashi | your blog.. - From: A Mixed Bag .. is very 'ate' indeed if it helps, my new years was spent in the ladies bathroom in some hotel in cairo where a power blackout meant the only light we could really see were the canadians cigarette butts :) aloha 2007! |
| 19th March 2007 Joel | Here we come NZ! - From: A Mixed Bag Great blog mate! I feel so lucky that you come to visit me twice in Vienna and that we got to go snowboarding together too! Looking forward to our next snowboarding trip in the land of the Kiwi!!! :P |
| 13th March 2007 Hutcho | Nice - From: A Mixed Bag Sounds like you had a great New Years. I am impressed with the 180, bring on NZ |
| 13th March 2007 Barbara | Reliving the Memories! - From: A Mixed Bag I had a few laughs Justin reading your latest blog. Well done, you certainly captured our feelings of frustration and bewilderment that night! We certainly won´t forget that amazing snowboarding/skiing holiday at Tauplitz either! Michael and I are in Barcelona at the moment still enjoying our travels through Europe! |
| 26th February 2007 Jani B | I know that girl! - From: Why Finland? Ha ha, Funny to reading a blog from an australian and to find an old school mate of mine in one of your pictures. Eeva was in the same high school with me. Funny. Im off to Sydney in two weeks. Yippee! |
| 24th February 2007 Al | Beatiful - From: Why Finland? Magnificent article! |
| 14th February 2007 baz | get a haircut - From: Above the Arctic Circle - Sauna and Snowboarding and put a shirt on |
| 9th February 2007 Paul from Adelaide | Finland Rock - From: Above the Arctic Circle - Sauna and Snowboarding Hey man, I caught your journal on the frontpage. I must say Finland looks rad in Winter time, I was over there travelling through in August and it was quite snow-less and heading towards Lapland was like travelling through the most depressive landscape known to man. Great country though :D sounds like you're having fun. I tried my hand at snowboarding on this trip, too ... but yeah I wont talk about it here haha. |
| 7th February 2007 Hutcho | Snowboarding - From: Above the Arctic Circle - Sauna and Snowboarding HAHAHA You are not an ambi-turner. I am DEFINITELY a better snowboarder than you are. Seriously thought snowboarding is the greatest thing ever, greater even than sliced bread. |
| 28th January 2007 sprucemoose | Complying with popular demand - From: Feel the Rhythm, Feel the Rhyme, Get on up, It's Bobsled time... COOL RUNNINGS! OK so i admit in retrospect that the video MAY be a TAD on the low side... but at the time it was a good, nay... GRAND idea |
| 27th January 2007 Joel | Justin, Justin, Justin... - From: Feel the Rhythm, Feel the Rhyme, Get on up, It's Bobsled time... COOL RUNNINGS! Im sorry, I usually like to be different when adding comments, but that movie is just so bad that I have to mention it... :P I'm leaving tomorrow for Ljubljana so will do my best to get the email address of your "dream girl". I'll keep you updated! |
| 24th January 2007 sashi | sorry justin, im with ziggy - From: Feel the Rhythm, Feel the Rhyme, Get on up, It's Bobsled time... COOL RUNNINGS! several words rushed at me upon seeing that video.. heres one.. atrocious.. thanks for ruining that song for me. tell me an egg really survived that ride, THAT would be gold. |
| 22nd January 2007 ziggy | Worst. Video. Ever. x2 - From: Feel the Rhythm, Feel the Rhyme, Get on up, It's Bobsled time... COOL RUNNINGS! it reminds me of gay. cya in a few days! |
| 22nd January 2007 Hutcho | Worst. Video. Ever. - From: Feel the Rhythm, Feel the Rhyme, Get on up, It's Bobsled time... COOL RUNNINGS! Also discombobulated is not a word I think you will find and I bet you miss my dry British wit and sarcasm:) |
| 20th January 2007 hibachi | :-D - From: Chilling Out In The Second Best Hostel In Europe baz has no peni |
| 8th January 2007 me | leuven - From: The Land of Beer, Chocolate and Rock Music - Heaven on Earth If you still consider yourself as a young person, a visit to my hometown is imperative!!!! the square with the over 40 bars is called '' Oude Markt'' which means ''Old Market'' and is far underestimated by this guy. The old market is a perfect place to spend aal your time, money and maybe even your life!!! This of course is possible because of a high school and a part of the world renownded university are present at this marktsquare. I've lived here my whole life and there's no place like home.... |
| 8th January 2007 baz & emil | chics - From: Chilling Out In The Second Best Hostel In Europe hey man, can you post some pictures of some hot polish girls cos emil is lookin for a wife. would also like to look at hot polish chics. would appreciate it if you dedicated an entire blog to hot chics you have met in europe. cheers bro, cya soon |
| 11th December 2006 Joel | Love those Polish women! - From: Chilling Out In The Second Best Hostel In Europe Great blog mate, like you said Krakow is a really fun place but also a very sad place... Oh yeah and btw The Hostel of the Sun is worth making a 300km detour for, especially when you cheat with your rail pass and get lots of free days! |
| 7th December 2006 Hutcho | You learn well my young Padawan - From: Chilling Out In The Second Best Hostel In Europe Glad to see that you are the only one pulling the official "Look off into the distance with hand on chin gesture." Good Work :) Dan PS Your hair is beginning to become its own seperate entity. Soon it'll probably start making decisions for you. I bet there are things living in it. . . . . . |
| 30th November 2006 Tanel | :) - From: The Forbidden City Hi, you have a small mistake with the headings: you have a picture which title is "Church - One of the many, many Churches in Old Town Tallinn", actually the tower on the picture is not a church but it belongs to the medevial city hall :) But very nice overview and I'm glad you like our old town! Regards, Tanel from Tallinn |
| 16th November 2006 Joel | Na zdravie! - From: Ice Hockey, Beer, Some History And More Ice Hockey Awesome you got a chance to visit some friends from last semester, and catch up on old times. On that note cheers for looking after us so well on our visit to Finland last week! We all really appreciated it! |
| 13th November 2006 anonymous | - From: May The Force Be With You sir, i think that u are marzouki. first, the tunisian speak english very well specially students. the proof sadok sp eaks english. also jemnah is not a small village and is not poor. sick man |
| 10th November 2006 Gina | JEALOUS - From: The Land of Beer, Chocolate and Rock Music - Heaven on Earth I am so incredibly JEALOUS that you went to Rock Werchter. And I thought that if I missed out on BDO I'd be crying! haha Good blog, by the way :) www.livejournal.com/~crime_time |
| 7th November 2006 Hutcho | Nice - From: Ice Hockey, Beer, Some History And More Ice Hockey Het JC, nice blog, ice hockey looks sweet as does the cheap beer. One question, do you reckon you could break up the letters in your words to make it less daunting to read;) Keep having fun. Dan |
| 6th November 2006 baz | well done - From: Ice Hockey, Beer, Some History And More Ice Hockey hey man, good to see you are still having good times. well done on breaking up the paragraphs man, a lot less daunting to read. take it easy champ and i'll cya soon |
| 27th October 2006 Joseph Jeevaraj | Formely of Din & Nish - From: First Lake Down, 187 887 More Lakes Left Mate good to see you kickin' it in urope. Also good to see that every blog involves you in a pub!! but be carfeful with the beer gut, they only let so much weight on a plane!!! anyways i better cheese it before the boss sees what i am doing. Never leave uni mate!!! thats the tip of year |
| 20th October 2006 Cam | Gratulation !! - From: On The Spur Of The Moment Hey, Im swedish from Stockholm :) have been travelling a lot around the world and lived longer times in othere cities than Stockholm. I was only surfing around to have a look at different bloggs, in case I will creat my own. I bumped in to your blogg and Im very satisfied, surprised and can't really find words to describe that you have done an amazing good blogg about Stockholm incuding your photos !! I wish you good luck with further articles and photos on your blogg or somewhere else. |
| 19th October 2006 kaisa | woohoo^^ - From: Serenity And Mayhem: The Perfect Combination hauskaa vappua kaikille! From Finland. Hän on helteinen....... sorry, but I laugh still for it-- no one in Finland would say that^^ ha. |
| 12th October 2006 ziggy | baz - From: First Lake Down, 187 887 More Lakes Left lol at u barry. its all good justin, empty threats. |
| 11th October 2006 baz | hey - From: First Lake Down, 187 887 More Lakes Left hey man, if u get any dodgy comments that appear from me, they are actually from ziggy, so block em. catcha |
| 7th October 2006 anonymous | Lone Rangers for life!!! - From: First Lake Down, 187 887 More Lakes Left Yo JC wtf is up, Lone rangers are still the best shit ever, but right now i got home from some crazy mofo party where the house almost got burnt down. It was off the hook. P.S. LONE RANGERS for life, word yo. |
| 7th October 2006 sashi | trip to finland.. - From: First Lake Down, 187 887 More Lakes Left if THATS the kind of thing thats going on over there, i think ill pass on your finland invite ;). thanks heaps for the photos though! wow okay that sounds kinda bad.. |
| 6th October 2006 Tom 'the gunn' dunn | Live from scotland - From: First Lake Down, 187 887 More Lakes Left If joel knows when he might be treking over into your parts of the woods i might aim for the same sort of time period. Its only like 120 quid to Torku from London return all taxes. And i would love to see you both.....and caress your dark choclatey brown skin, and brush my hands through your thick bush....on your head. well yes i think i should leave it at that!!!! All my love. Tom |
| 6th October 2006 Joel | Tobias Funke = Justin (good call BOSS) - From: First Lake Down, 187 887 More Lakes Left Eastern Finland sounds good mate. I'll do my best to make it over in the next few months... :P |
| 5th October 2006 baz | ... - From: First Lake Down, 187 887 More Lakes Left Tobias Fünke like. Nuff said Take it easy man |
| 5th October 2006 sprucemoose | Intelligent Reply - From: First Lake Down, 187 887 More Lakes Left My blogs are open to interpretation, whatever that might be. Of course, it all depends on the reader's background and personal experience... |
| 5th October 2006 deadman | hahaha? - From: First Lake Down, 187 887 More Lakes Left "Justin + Sauna = Joy. Finn + Sauna = Unbearable. Therefore Justin + Finn + Sauna = Unbearable Joy" - very homoerotic, justin:P |
| 26th September 2006 Tom D | Dan is right - From: On The Spur Of The Moment Although Dan may point out your incredible, intelligence i found the story itself breathtaking. You write like jebus himself would write. Artistic, poetic, imaginative and all that junk. You are living the dream my good man. Living the dream. All you kids on exchange. I will visit you all. Of this i am certain. |
| 25th September 2006 Hutcho | Insert Witty Title Here - From: On The Spur Of The Moment Oh Justin, how wild and spur of the moment you are. You rebellious bad boy you:) I would like to hear more on International Commercial Arbitration though, it sounds fascinating and definitely bodes well for your future career as a lawyer, I'm sure everyday will be incredibly exciting as you think how fundamental it is to "contractually denote arbitration as a medium for the resolving of legal disputes in the drafting of international contracts" |
| 25th September 2006 Baz | paragraphing - From: On The Spur Of The Moment hey man, the size of your paragraphs is really daunting. can u just put spaces in between so its easier to start reading. cheers. |
| 13th September 2006 ziggy | - From: The Most Perfect Girl In The World i'll fight u hutcho |
| 12th September 2006 Joel | I hope you got her number! (or at least her email...) - From: The Most Perfect Girl In The World Nice round off to a action packed 3 months of travel! Just out of curiosity what was the name of the hostel you stayed in in Ljubljana? I mean its not that far from Vienna so I might make a trip down there one weekend next semester. :P |
| 11th September 2006 Dan H | Pic - From: The Most Perfect Girl In The World I was gonna say the same thing about the pic, but then I thought would I really want the likes of Ziggy, Baz, Madan, James and Joel looking at her. The answer is no. So just email me the pic JC, I am the only one who can be trusted with it:) |
| 11th September 2006 Baz | Pic please - From: The Most Perfect Girl In The World hey man, can't just leave everyone on the edge after such an intense description of this chick ay. catcha |
| 9th September 2006 Daniel H | - From: The Most Perfect Girl In The World PLAGIARISM!!!!! Plagiarism I scream, I know where your opening line came from and one day I will use this information against you in the most heinous way. Anyway, its always about a girl isn't it, some of the most memorable memories involve fleeting meetings where for a few brief hours the paths of your life crossed. Then suddenly they are gone, leaving only memories and a feeling that, hey, she was Starsky to your Hutch, ying to your yang, or Seigfreid to your Roy, you get the drift. Ah well, there's always a next time. |
| 6th September 2006 sashi | sashi - jealousy level : through the roof - From: Hitch (And) Hiking In Slovenia your photos are absolutely gorgeous. i CANT believe you get to keep travelling around while im in copenhagen dealing with lectures and books and student cards.. SIGHHHHH :P |
| 6th September 2006 Daniel H | Aboot Time - From: Hitch (And) Hiking In Slovenia hez fool, nice to know that your travels continued without me. I definitely have the travel bug now that I am in the same place for more than a few days, bring on continous travel. My question is how you paid for the hitch hiking, I know you would have been too cheap to give him money, but what else did you have to sell? Hmmmm, I wonder...... |
| 1st September 2006 ziggy again | pick up line - From: With Gil In The French Alps i think whoever told u that was messing with u. in meridional french, "Je voudrais le cadeau si vous plait, mademoiselle " means: miss, my name is justin please call me gay. |
| 1st September 2006 zichung | - From: With Gil In The French Alps gil is my hero. |
| 29th August 2006 Baz | the verb? - From: The Land of Beer, Chocolate and Rock Music - Heaven on Earth or the verve? |
| 29th August 2006 Joel | What a day!! - From: The Race That Stops A City Hey JC Loved your blog on the Palio. Wish I could have been there with you as we had first planned it but next time eh! Great photos aswell! Oh and I heartily agree with you about no one caring that you were in Palermo... :P |
| 22nd August 2006 Daniel H | - From: The Race That Stops A City Justin your writing has come on in leaps and bounds, (I blame Catch-22), that was a truly captivating blog. Keep it up. Oh one thing, never miss out on a good party. Sleep where you fall and worry about the consequences when you wake up! Dan |
| 17th August 2006 Grzegorz | - From: May The Force Be With You hey I am now in Hungary visitng Attila and in evenings I am reading your blog and we see that you have great time amazing adventures and you meet some cool ppl I wonder how you would feel on polish weeding which always consist a massive amount of fun also for 3 days ;) Take care and explore Europe as much as you can. |
| 15th August 2006 Daniel Maximus | - From: May The Force Be With You I wish I could have travelled a bit longer so I could have gone to that wedding, a wedding with bridesmaids! Unfortunately I died after killing the false emperor and went to heaven. The wife is nagging me though and the weather is crappy, maybe I'm actually in England and not heaven. Crap, maybe I should have been gooder. (ps: i know gooder is not a word) Keep the excellent blogs coming. |
| 15th August 2006 Joel | Sup India! - From: May The Force Be With You Hey India! Great blog mate. Hope you had as much fun trying to convince everyone in Tataouine that you were Australian as you did in the rest of Tunisia! Hopefully see you soonish in Finland! |
| 14th August 2006 Jon | haha esquilsax !! - From: May The Force Be With You thats pretty wicked how Sadek invited you guys for something as personal as a wedding !! it seems like your meeting some really interesting people. your photos are really awesome aswell !! keep it up! |
| 14th August 2006 Dad | Fabulous experience - From: May The Force Be With You Your visit to Tunisia, whilst difficult, seems worthwhile and very interesting. Great to learn about other people's culture. Your involvement in the wedding celebrations would be something to remember. Well done! and enjoy - Love Dad |
| 12th August 2006 Barbara | Persistence Wins the Day! - From: Chasing A Ferry By Train As Churchill said "Never, never, never give up!" Freestyle travelling sounds interesting - just as well all of your mothers weren't tagging along! Stories like this aren't much fun living through but they do get better as you look back on them! You and Joel have had some wonderful experiences together. Blessings as you continue on! |
| 4th August 2006 Chad | Comment for Justin - From: The Name Is Bond, James Bond 'Nice was quite a nice town' - what a NONSENSE sentence Justin. Your poor grasp of the English language fails you once again and makes a MOCKERY of your blog! But in all seriousness, cool entry - the James Bond thing was cooler than cool, although if the chord had snapped that would have made for a far better entry! Anyways, stay safe, not to mention DARK! P.S. I saw your brother at Uni and he has this one friend who was crazy dirty at the ball! I'll point him out next year :) |
| 1st August 2006 ziggy | - From: The Name Is Bond, James Bond hey man, i think u should be a bit more gentle on ur teeth. I'd imagine it cant be too good for your gums |
| 23rd July 2006 deadman | sif squirrel - From: The Name Is Bond, James Bond more like a flying racoon;) |
| 20th July 2006 dad | Great Account - From: The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Music Hi boy..........interesting account and beautiful view from castle. I hope you are recording more pictures for us to see when you return. No doubt you are having a good time and making lots of friends. Keep up the good work and enjoy your travels! |
| 18th July 2006 jumse | good work justin - From: Running WITH The Bulls Nice work justin way to dominate those bulls. A bit of lone ranger spirit showing there!!! |
| 18th July 2006 Joel | Wow!!! - From: Running WITH The Bulls Great blog JC! Reading it made me feel like I was actually there beside you running from the bulls!!! Wait a minute... I was there! hahaha sorry im quite tired........ :P |
| 18th July 2006 Liekele | I found a nice blog ;-) - From: A Taste Of Vienna Hey JC just wanted to say hi and wish you and Joel a good travel. hope to catch you guys online sometime :-) Have fun and enjoy life :-) |
| 18th July 2006 Melissa | - From: Running WITH The Bulls I cant believe u did running of the bulls!! That must have been crazyy, but such a good experience too. Im so jealous ur in spain!! Love Mel |
| 11th July 2006 zichung | - From: The Land of Beer, Chocolate and Rock Music - Heaven on Earth rock werchter....man, the lineup for that!!!!! u lucky boy! it sounds even better than when u were hyping it up before u went. id imagine it be up there with a coldplay live concert:) looks like u had a great time in belgium, two thumbs up. ps. since when has beer ever been drank to get drunk????? |
| 11th July 2006 Melissa | - From: "Mysterious Fever Hits Millions World Wide" - FIFA World Cup 2006 Hey Justin, the soccer looks awesome! The atmostphere over there would be unbelievable. U lucky thing i am so jealous. But yay for italy winning. I actually stayed up to watch the game! Take care Love Mel |
| 30th June 2006 Zane | Woop! - From: A Tale Of Two Cities Hey man, enjoying reading of your travels, tis very motivational :D. I'm saving to get my ass over there, I've been to Berlin before and seeing that Church wreckage sparked something in me hahah. Anyway hope youre having a good time, keep up the entries it's good reading :P. -zane |
| 27th June 2006 Mum | - From: A Taste Of Vienna Cool photos and Vienna indeed looks very interesting. - Mum |
| 21st June 2006 sprucemoose | confusion - From: Lovely Rita The title is taken straight from The Beatle´s song of the same name... to avoid confusion Ziggy :P |
| 20th June 2006 zichung | - From: Lovely Rita yer, and i forgot to add that the title of this post was rather deceiving |
| 20th June 2006 CHAD | get a HAIRCUT - From: Lovely Rita Hey Justin good to know your taking care of yourself, bar your ungodly hair! Keep up the good blogging |
| 19th June 2006 Daniel H | - From: Lovely Rita Looks like you're having a sweet time galavanting about europe meeting uni mates and their sister's:) Every passing day brings me closer to Europe and I am beginning to get ridiculously excited. See you soon Big Man PS Here is a shout out to half-arsed afro's in the making! |
| 19th June 2006 anonymous | - From: Lovely Rita The cave indeed looks scarey. - Mum |
| 17th June 2006 zichung | - From: Lovely Rita find anyone to play marco polo with in that pool? i bet u sucked at it |
| 17th June 2006 Joel | Great pics mate! - From: Lovely Rita Glad to see you finally made it to Budapest and loved it almost as much as me! |
| 16th June 2006 Jumse | Word up JC - From: Bohemian Rhapsody sup jc i just read most of you blogs, sounds like your having an awesome time! hope your representing australia at the world cup with lots of roudy behaviour!! keep having an awesome time!! james. |
| 7th June 2006 dad | Interesting Travel Diary - From: Bohemian Rhapsody Justin, I read your notes and thrilled to see that you are having a wonderful time and experiencing a lot of fun, especially the kids at the station. Keep up the good work so that we can read about your experiences. I Prague seems like a winderful place and I hope you have taken a lot more images for us see when you return. |
| 6th June 2006 anonymous | - From: Bohemian Rhapsody Good to read all your adventures. The places you have visited are all very interesting and beautiful. I am glad you are going to those lovely museums. I am sure you will have a good time with Joel and will have the opportunity to see his uni, meet his freinds etc... Mum |
| 3rd June 2006 zolthand | wee - From: A Tale Of Two Cities i miss u more jchizzle! |
| 2nd June 2006 Melissa | - From: A Tale Of Two Cities Hey justin, all ur pics look really beautiful. Good to see ur having a great time. Missing u heaps, take care. |
| 25th May 2006 ziggy | sup - From: Misty Mountain Hop Hey Dinesh (thought id join the party). that place is beautiful, buy a ticket for me to get there. I think u have enough drunkard friends to be able to deal with any of those situations - so that was nothing special :). anyway, keep enjoying urself and take care. ps. isnt there a certain sporting event soon?..like kinda popular and stuff???? <3 coolest azn ever |
| 25th May 2006 Jason | hey! - From: Misty Mountain Hop Hey Dinesh, It looks like you're having an absolutely awesome time! Where are you now? I should be doing an essay but I've just spent like half an hour reading all of your blog entries! You've been doing so much cool stuff, you're really making the most of your time which is great. What are your plans/where are you gonna be over the rest of the summer? I'm going to America in Sept but I have a week off in August in between internships and it would be cool to meet up somewhere/visit somewhere cool so let me know where you're gonna be and maybe we could sort something out? E-mail me on my Jason.Mahendran@pmb.ox.ac.uk account when you get this! Take care, Jason |
| 25th May 2006 Dad & Mum | Interesting Travel Diary - From: Misty Mountain Hop Dinesh, It is nice to start reading your travel journal again. They are great notes and you are writing them with a passion! We are glad that you are having good time on your own despite being separated from your firiends. In deed it is a great recovery from a very sad event! You seems to be focusing on the positives in your life and well done! It looks like you have had an interesting experience with the drunked guy. I am sure experiences like that make your holiday much more memorable, so keep recording them! You seems to know how to avoid trouble anyway! The Fjords are wonderful and you have captured some memorable images. When you are rich, you must take Mum and Dad to Norway to see those memorable scenaries. I enjoyed reading your notes and will look forward to your next entry! Love Dad. |
| 18th May 2006 Tom D | FIRE AND DOOM - From: 3A 3rd Floor, Turun Ylioppilaskylä, Finland Only fire and doom would result from such a meeting. Men would fall to their knees, women and children would run in horror as an unparalleld rampage of drunken shenanigans was released on the world. PLENTIFUL SHENANIGANS! And only justin would be to blame. And those four men would all have extreme hangovers. Again JUSTIN to blame for the pain and/ or suffering. |
| 14th May 2006 Daniel H | Fantastical - From: 3A 3rd Floor, Turun Ylioppilaskylä, Finland After reading that I can't wait to get going to Canada. I am so excited. It sounds like you've had the most fantastic 5 months overseas. Also I was deleriously happy when my name was mentioned alongside such illustrious company as Tomas "Dunny's Deck" Dunn, Attlia Miklosi and Grzegorz Glolowski. Surely the planet's would align if these four were ever to meet! |
| 12th May 2006 anonymous | - From: Spring Semester 2006 Yes you have indeed enjoyed your first semester. The Easter break fast and the dinner looks cool. You can do this at home when you get back. - Mum |
| 10th May 2006 michaelpaddo | Great stuff JC! - From: Serenity And Mayhem: The Perfect Combination awesome entry justin! (all of them have been but I'll just comment on this one, after reading through them all.) very entertaining and interesting, and great photos. sweden's valborg festival (celebrated on may 1 as well) was an incredible day and night - but it sounds like vappu was even better! keep the blogs coming. =) |
| 8th May 2006 mallu | helteinen - From: Serenity And Mayhem: The Perfect Combination "helteinen" in Finnish refers to weather. Helteinen sää = hot/humid weather. You don't use this word in reference to people. A direct translation for "she's hot" would be "hän on kuuma" but nobody would say that in Finnish. Maybe "hyvän näköinen" = good looking? |
| 7th May 2006 ziggy | translator - From: Serenity And Mayhem: The Perfect Combination Hän on helteinen = she is hot/sultry. both in my opinion |
| 6th May 2006 Baz and Fraz | anna Hän on helteinen!!!!!! - From: Serenity And Mayhem: The Perfect Combination yeh man....u knw its true!!! |
| 2nd May 2006 sprucemoose | Cheers Dan - From: Serenity And Mayhem: The Perfect Combination Aye, tis true. My debauchery was my way of compensatin. |
| 2nd May 2006 Daniel H | Best. Post. Ever. - From: Serenity And Mayhem: The Perfect Combination Fantastical. JC, this post had me smiling, alot. It had everything, great photos, flowing poetical prose, attractive blonde finn's. The only problem would have been that you didn't have a white hat because you have never graduated high school. YES thats right I have exposed your biggest and greatest secret for all the world to see MWAHAHAHAHA. :p |
| 2nd May 2006 anonymous | - From: Serenity And Mayhem: The Perfect Combination Very interesting and amazing to see such a lot of people at the hat festival - Mum |
| 1st May 2006 Joel | Fully sick! - From: Serenity And Mayhem: The Perfect Combination Wow! That labour day festival sounds awesome JC! I wish we had something like that here in Vienna! |
| 26th April 2006 ziggy | :) - From: Sledding, Sliding and Stunning Stockholm "Pink is your favourite colour. Pink is also a girls colour. Coincidence. I think not" quoted for truth |
| 26th April 2006 Daniel Hutchinson | Pink - From: Sledding, Sliding and Stunning Stockholm Pink is your favourite colour. Pink is also a girls colour. Coincidence. I think not:) |
| 25th April 2006 deadman | werd - From: The Forbidden City long live half-arsed beards:D |
| 25th April 2006 deadman | - From: Worst. Episode. Ever. heh, motion thirded. i agree with the travel journal thing, emails are so bland and boring and as if anyone checks there hotmails ones regularly:) i hope there have been no "peng"esque drinking adventures whilst youve been there, otherwise you would have to tell us all:D. continue to enjoy your time you lucky bastard |
| 25th April 2006 Daniel Hutchinson | - From: Worst. Episode. Ever. I present the motion to the floor that Justin is a girl. Motion Seconded. Motion Passed. From now on Justin shall be known as Justine. Pretty ugly girl if you ask me:) |
| 23rd April 2006 Dad & Mum | Feedback from Mum & Dad - From: The Forbidden City Its a good idea to have this website so that Mum & Dad will know how your holiday is progressing. Tallinn seems to be a nice place whilst not exciting seems to offer a lot of historical sights. We are glad that finally you were able to make it to Tallinn. |
| 23rd April 2006 camila | random comment - From: Worst. Episode. Ever. hey justin its camila from murdoch! i dont know if youll remember me but chad sent me your blog...pretty bizarre stuff but well done for keeping your chin up..very admirable...i hope your safe and having a good time camila |
| 22nd April 2006 Vienna Vagabonder | You're both girls!! - From: Worst. Episode. Ever. Just listen to all this arguing and complaining... :P Awesome to see you strated a blog JC! I'm really looking forward to reading all about all your travels, particularly when you're travelling with that really cool guy Joel! |
| 21st April 2006 sprucemoose | Ziggy... - From: Worst. Episode. Ever. I think you're a girl. But then again, let's not mention your whole fiasco with She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. I severely doubt that that will compare with me being a "girl" as you so eloquently and intelligently put it. |
| 21st April 2006 zichung | :) - From: Worst. Episode. Ever. good onya for finally starting a blog, although i do remember us telling u to start one before u left... and u still havent got a picture of ur hot tutor, stop holding out on us boy. "4th time in about 2.5 hrs" "I was sick, I was weak" i think ur just big girl <3 ziggy |
