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#33 Completed – Come to Stansted!
Here’s my forfeit. Donner meat and chips with a healthy slop of burger sauce on a meshed metal seat of Upper Warlingham train station. To make things worse, I was completely sober. Why was this my...
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#35 Completed – Atlas Mountain Taxis
Here we are then, Marrakech in Morocco. Fantastic city. Lots of hustle and bustle as to be expected. Fantastic markets, that appeared to be genuine markets, not just for the entertainment of the...
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#6 Completed – Peaking too soon
Donkeys done with, we were wondering what to do with the rest of our time in the Atlas Mountains. Aziz wasn’t going to drive off without us as we had not paid him yet. Well, it would be rude to not...
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#19 Completed – Not quite the deadliest catch
Plenty of Fish not only happens to be the website that I have signed up to in order to achieve #11 but it also is what I am hoping from today’s excursion. Somehow discovering a paradise is all the more...
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#32 Completed – Getting an eyeful
This evening was to be one of culinary firsts involving the fine catch of the day made earlier. First of all, I had never been fishing before, or been hunting for that matter, so to have caught and...
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#25 Completed – All’s Square
Anyone good with their mathematics would notice that I am slipping behind with numbers. It is time to get knocking those easy ones off. Only problem is that some are not quite as easy as arrogantly...
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#29 Completed – Called to the barter
The Moroccan voyage was sadly coming to an end. We had awoken at a most unearthly hour to catch the 7am train from Marrakech to Fes. It was a journey of temperature extremes. To begin with we were...
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#31 Completed – karma
It was 20 minutes past 2am on the first day of my professional career and I was not in the preferred situation. The preferred situation would involve being blissfully unaware of such temporal...
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#46 Completed – God Save Tagine
I have never been a fan of my nation’s national anthem. It has always just sounded pretty dull at the Olympics or a football game or the Forumla 1, especially in comparison to some of the others out...
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#9 Completed – Something to wonder about
What is a classic? I’m not really sure. Merriam Webster uses descriptions, such as, ‘a standard of quality’, ‘traditional’ and ‘enduring’. So in searching for one, I opted for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in...
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#27 Completed – The most important place that I had never been to
The sound of hearing the words ‘East Grinstead’ gives me a very special tingle deep inside. For my entire life, I have grown up knowing that these syllables resembled home, comfort, family. But the...
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#57 Completed – What do Flemish Roman Catholics and Onesie-wearing marbles...
Answer was kind of in the title – they both helped me knock off #57 – attend a traditional festival. So it was Good Friday, and as all avid sports fans know, it’s the British and World Marbles...
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#58 Completed – The most random Flemish pootle
At the weekend, there was a major cycling event occurring in Belgium. Novices to the sport would have assumed I am talking about the Ronde Van Vlaanderen that Fabien Cancellara valiantly won, but they...
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#2 and #52 Completed – The roasting of the lambs (cert: parental guidance)
This might sound rather arrogant but I’ve been quite pleased with my culinary skills over the past couple of years. My time at uni gave me great opportunity to work on various dishes and I converted a...
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#36 Completed – The Listerine sprinkler
I am my second week into the world of week. Ever since my first day that began with only 2 hours of sleep, I have always been ridiculously tired at work. I believe this tiredness to be due to a...
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#3 Completed – Don’t bank on banksy
I’m a tad biased but London has got to be the cultural capital of the world. There is just so much going on in such a vast metropolis. As a result I thought this would be a great place to hunt out some...
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#28 Completed – In da full house!
It was approximately 19.30 on a Saturday evening and this was the view that I had before me. It was Elephant & Castle’s ever glamorous shopping centre and the glow of the setting sun was making it...
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#21 Completed – turning half japanese, half welsh
Welcome to Hyde Park, London on a Sunday. It is the hive of all leisure and sporting activity, especially when it is the first fair weather weekend of the year. Everyone was out, especially the...
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#48 Completed – All hands on deck
I’m useless at a lot of stuff. But if there was to be only one thing I lack adept skills at, its anything fiddly. I lack the dexterity and patience to deal with delicate situations and dread the...
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#60 Completed – 50 shades of gray
I decided to read a book that would lead me to the world of a Mr Gray. But, thank heavens, I haven’t read a single line of that social-acceptable pornography regarding a Mr Grey. What I have been doing...
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