Talked to Billy last night. Both he and Stephen are well, they’re in Montrrey, North-East Mexico. Staying with a friend-of-a-friend for free in a wee back-room for the next 2 months, or so.

Billy’s days involve learning spanish (”until my head hurts”) and looking for jobs, Knighter says Bill’s his bitch and does the food (mainly cookies & pasta, he hasn’t started cooking the good Mexican stuff). They are looking for jobs right now – although he didn’t really go into this. Billy’s also keeping a journal, he writes an entry every morning.

Stephen was pick-pocket-ed while in the taking a slash, someone nabbed his wallet out his back pocket. Lost two credit cards, driving license and some dinéro. So no knife fights or whatever that I had imagined. Apart from that wee incident everything is coo’ and all.

Check out Billy’s Flickr.

hey, i’m in Glasgow now.

noisey it is too; midnight – saturday. i’m pretty burned out from a day of lingering and general non-productivity. i still don’t have a job, nearly 3 weeks in. any ideas?

more a test post than anything – old database is now re-instated!

No horns, but we did find a strange drunken side of Bill you’d do best to stay clear of. The countryside was grand, the cycling even better. Will even turned up – what a surprise that was.

Here’s a map, and here’s a set on Flickr.

is fantastic, to quote:

thanks alot-ski

ahahaha, it seems more-than-ussual Wogan is using his narrator spot on Eurovision to take the piss out of all the countries we don’t understand, in this big happy family of a Union. If you’re visiting from the U.S. – check out the live stream: BBC Radio 2. He’s insane, having a go at the dancers now.

Slightly related; Michael Palin is off on his travels again. As I guessed (a smug grin if ever there was one) the team are on their way to “New Europe” for a new series (airing, Autumn 2007). Kirstie Wark did a similar travel doc, it was pretty good too – Tales from Europe I highly recommend, if you get the chance.

So. Palin, in his own words:

So what is Palin’s New Europe ? At the moment it is a combination of twenty-one countries all of which were once in the Soviet bloc and are now either part of or about to be part of the EU, as well as countries like Turkey which are considering applying to join the EU. We shall visit many countries, like Bosnia, Albania, Moldova and Macedonia, of which we may know the names and not the detail…

I can’t wait. Back to Wogan; “Lithuiania? I’ve forgotten their song, well I’ve forgotten all the songs but…” (btw, I’ve just tuned in for the anual slamming / technical break-down and point giving, I didn’t sit through any of the ‘tunes’)

I wasn’t wearing my I’m Blogging This t-shirt but I’ll tell you about yesterday’s trip up to Foress and its surrounding countryside. It was chilly, I was running late (due to my Gilbert & Sullivan records arriving in the post – and some early morning Pinafore

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