Last week I had a getaway in Amsterdam. This place has been on my todo list, as well as going to experience my favourite DJ live (Armin van Buuren). It just so happened that Armin’s new tour kicked off in Amsterdam and I decided to just go. The tickets to the event sold out over 6 months ago but I found a website where they were being sold second-hand. Much higher cost and not guaranteed to work, yet it was worth the risk. I ordered a ticket and when I saw the name on it was Roberto Carlos, I thought “well if this doesn’t work, I’ll just pretend I’m the Brazilian footballer and they’ll treat me like royalty”. I’ve heard stories about Amsterdam, mainly about drugs and prostitution ... well actually that’s all I’ve heard. Bag ... read more

It has now been 1 yr since I moved to Portugal so I thought about writing a summary of what has happened, how things have been and what I'm thinking about the future. Those of you who are waiting for the blog post about my trip to Morocco (including Moroccan mafia, robbery by me, stoned babies and typical etch style adventures), this will follow in the near future. So, September 2012 I decided to move to Portugal and as always, time has flown by crazily quick. One full yr in Tavira has been eventful and at times challenging. I made an effort early on to make friends, join a gym, etc as having a social life is important to stop us from going insane. I also decided to take Portuguese lessons from the 1st week, something ... read more

July in Tavira has been awesome ... so much so that I forgot about my blog. There have been some rough times too as is with life anywhere, however each day is a new day and you just move on. I'll start off with a brief discussion on health and nutrition. During June I decided to take physical fitness seriously and being quite anal with my food by logging every item I ate and % of macro-nutrients. I had a good result by the end of the month with strength, muscle/fat ratio, energy levels. In July I stopped taking things so seriously and didn't quite know what I was eating, having large meals and eating out a lot as it's easy to over-indulge, it is after all summer in a mediterranean climate. The end result by ... read more

The week just gone I had my 1st comedy gig in Portugal, the 1st since 2010. Unfortunately it didn't go down too well, I just didn't get the laughs. I had new material but also used some of the old set, even that got 0 laughs and I know that's funny. Over here the expat community is mostly retired OAPs and that will have had a lot to do with it ... I think I'm just too filthy and wrong for them, they were probably confused, me talking about erections then my funny looking eyes. On the night there were 3 comics, 1 dude who came on for 25 mins, then I came on for 5 mins with random filth and then another dude came on for 25 mins .... they were probably thinking "so what ... read more

Wow has it really been this long since the last post? Lost time to make up for then :)A lot has been going on in the past couple of weeks, including a visit from the parents, frozen strawberries, poolside thong fun, tax returns, cooking in a bar, diy and more.Let's start off with the situation with the car matriculation, as it still isn't over. I'm about to become illegal again since I still haven't (can't) pay the road tax and i don't have a registration document for the car. IMTT (DVLA) told me in March it would take a few weeks and I'd receive the document in the post, yet nada, so last week I returned back to IMTT in Faro and was told everything is fine in our system, try this other place called 'Conservatoria' ... read more