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Revenue: Am a bit shart off about a particularly unwelcomely big tax bill which arrived whilst I was off having fun in the snow. As with being caught for speeding, the first reaction is to blame everyone/thing else, but essentially it boils down to my lack of understanding of the was tax works. So the…
All back safe, sound, & shattered from this year's snowboarding epic. Taking the train seemed like the leisurely and relaxed way to go on the way over, but by the time the trip back came about I was kinda getting tired of the whole procedure. The snow in Zell Am See as we were waiting…
It's always the way, innit ? Last day of snowboarding, and you think “Well I've had a good run this week – anything from here on is just bonus points…”. My plan for Friday was to do some warmup runs, then head up the top of the glacier, take the blue run down to the…
Happy Australia Day from Austria ! They say that Austria's the one without kangaroos, but I very nearly changed all that. Well, at least I would have done if that kangaroo suit hadn't shot up to 62 pounds on eBay. Final day on the glacier today. Then by Sunday it'll be back to normal life,…
OK so much for the writing something every day bit – our typical routine here is wake up, have breakfast, head out & slide down the side of a mountain somewhere, come back, have a nice cold Austrian lager or 3, go for dinner, come back, flake out. Rinse & repeat. As you can see,…
In order to make up for not having written anything much about last year's trip to Solden, the fact that there's a WiFi connection here in Kaprun means I can attempt to do an in situ day-by-day update on the snowboarding trip. Lucky, eh ? We've just pulled up after a fairly horrid trip over…
Right, well that's me away to the snow then ! A bunch of us are off to Kaprun, in Austria, for a week of gravity-fed snow+plank related adventures, and hopefully this year I'll get around to blogging about it. As Richie pointed out yesterday, there's a website called Metcheck which does all kinds of funky…
The blustery wind continues today, although possibly stronger today. There's some really knackered looking pigeons huddling on our window ledge up here on the 21st floor. The place where I work has a new sort of mall-thing down the bottom – all new steel & marble & glass stuff, to contrast our fairly dirty 1963-built…
I know, I know. In an effort to cure the recent blogstipation, I give you Part 1 of the fantastic tale of the trip from Shimla to Delhi to Agra. In October. Only a complete arsewit would decide, “Hmm, 5 hours from Delhi to Agra, 5 hours back – I've got 14 hours. I think…
Really bloody windy today. It was like everyone had decided to do that mime thing where they pretend to walk into the wind. Except there was actual wind. And loads more swearing. Perhaps that bit was just me though.