Deano’s Travels

You can get anything on youtube - have a search for Noddy has sex with Enid blyton in the Noddymobile, I’m sure that there will be some sort of result: No guarantee, I’ve never searched for it myself. But anyway, there has definitely been cases of hard core sex, and drug use, fights and deaths shown on it. Yet the video to the prodigy’s smack my bitch up is still banned. OK, it pushes the boundaries of decency, but to be banned on smut infested youtube is just a joke!

There are cut and censored versions of smack my bitch up on you tube, but here is the proper version: all I’m saying is look at the hands, and it will all become clear.

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It was the FIFA world cup draw a couple of days ago. So I finally got to find out who is playing in the matches that I have tickets for in Cape town.

They are:

1. Uruguay - France, both these teams struggled to qualify for the world cup and required play off wins to get there. France do have some very good players and if they hit form could go a long way in this competition. Uruguay, as a South American team can probably beat most teams on the right day, but I can’t see them stringing a run of results t0gether to progress far overall.

2. Italy - Paraguay. Both world champions Italy and the Paraguayans qualified for the competition with ease. I expect this to be a very tough match for both sides, though the Italians must be the favourites.

3. England - Algeria. Stoked, I got an England match England had their best qualifying rounds ever, and have a great manager in Fabio Capello; the main weakness is the goalkeeper and the fact that we are dreadful at penalty shoot outs. Algeria reached the world cup by beating Egypt in a play off. As Egypt always seem to do well in the African nations cup, and next years tournament is in South Africa, then maybe Algeria can put up a bit if a fight. I’d expect England to win this though.

Overall I’m pretty happy with the tickets I get to see two of continental Europe’s  best teams (France and Italy were both in the last final);  My home country (England); two South American teams; and an African team. I’m really looking forward to the competition, not quite worked out how I am getting there yet, I may travel via India on Kenyan airlines, or go from the UK.

Deano

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Being a bit of a backpacker, I often get to revisit songs and groups that I have not listened to for a long time.

Recently on my way back from Burma to Chiang mai I listened to The Jam and Pink Floyd for the first time in a long while.

I could never do a personal top ten of my favourite songs as a lot depends on my mood and who I remember at the time. But I thought I’d try to do a top ten for Pink Floyd; even this was difficult, anyway in reverse order we have:

10 Comfortably numb

9  Eclipse

8. Pigs

7. Hey you

6. Sheep

5. Money

4. Time

3. Echoes

2. Shine on you crazy diamond

1. Wish you were here

Yeah I’ve left tonnes of songs out, I think outside the top two that my favorite 10 pink floyd songs could change very often;  but I’m going for these today.

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Well I am getting seriously behind with my travel updates! Although I have recently been blogging about Chiang mai  there are three countries that I have recently been to which I have yet to write about.

These are Macau, Laos and Burma; I have also spent some time up in the North East of Thailand (an area known as Issan (also spelt as Isan, Isaan, Isarn, and Esarn  (now you know)).

Anyway I have a little bit of free time at the moment so am hopefully going to write about these places very soon. In the meantime here is a pictorial taste of things to come.

A Taste of Macau

Old Town Macau

A Taste of Laos

Monks in Laos

A Taste of Burma

Queuing in Burma

A Taste of Issan

A stormy night in Issan - Sunset over the Mekong river

Deano

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