tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39232252011-12-05T04:59:29.706ZBilly' sTripskeep track of me as I travel around my bedroom...Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.comBlogger2151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-57848241705544378762011-12-05T04:41:00.001Z2011-12-05T04:59:29.720Z
So here I am in lazy Arambol, Goa, trying to resist the urge to scratch myself into an orgasmic state of temporary relief from the 100 mozzie bites that I have somehow acquired over the last week. After the crazy noise and hectic pace of Mumbai, it took me a week to finally slow down and adjust myself to Goa time, but I think I'm getting there now... Have had some great jams with some fantastic Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14533279630143376522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-82051560848169053212011-11-22T06:30:00.004Z2011-11-22T08:38:54.512ZHe's got a ticket to rideSo, here we are again! A lot has happened since last we spoke, so I think I will just begin rambling and see what comes out. I've been in Mumbai for 2 weeks now, and I'm desperately in need of some space, fresh air, and silence... so I've booked a ticket for the crowded hippy holiday resort of Arambol, Goa, where those who've had enough of trying to find themselves go to find other people and Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14533279630143376522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-3754494670329969862011-11-10T07:17:00.011Z2011-11-11T10:28:12.603ZBack in Bombay...So here I am. Mumbai... the most crazy concentration of humanity I have ever had the pleasure to be sensually assaulted by. After two nights of sleep deprivation, I finally arrived in Mumbai airport, refreshed my tired eyes with a couple of drops of Boots' own brand "eye drops for tired eyes" (Boots, you lie!), and headed out into the sauna that is India. After a worrying moment of mathematical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14533279630143376522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-91983750538150730452009-01-14T13:28:00.002Z2009-01-14T13:38:25.148ZThe return of MC BillyWow, what a few weeks it's been! I really don't know where to start. So far this trip just keeps on surprising me. I came here thinking maybe I'd meet some local musicians and learn some african rhythms. Perhaps even pick up a bit of djembe along the way. Instead I am now staying in Brikama, the main city and music centre of the gambia, hanging out with a music collective of the best reggae and Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14533279630143376522noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-56909762572567035692008-09-05T12:02:00.002+01:002008-09-05T16:33:00.998+01:00Indian summer my arseMy oh my, what a wonderful day! At last the baking heat of the english summer is over and we are delivered, sunburned and sweaty, to the cool autumnal rains, gently lashing down upon us from slate grey skies. For those not currently residing in the UK, and unacustomed to sarcasm, I am in fact being sarcastic. Once again the autumn has arrived before the summer actually began. Of course everyone Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-45625327351062818802008-05-30T15:31:00.005+01:002008-05-30T19:11:43.817+01:00Learn some stuff...Just found a great website for articles about the global situation:http://www.globalissues.org/get reading! :)Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-30852946832081986512008-03-06T09:54:00.000Z2008-03-06T09:55:26.159ZBen Griffin: Former SAS, Banned speech to Anti-War RallyBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-42227068161907238442008-02-09T12:11:00.000Z2008-02-09T12:17:23.237ZThe Story of StuffI've just watched a great little movie online. It's only 20 mins long and well worth a watch. It explains where your stuff comes from, where it goes, and why you buy it in the first place! Please watch it and then share it!www.storyofstuff.comBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-31373053755196958702007-10-05T23:02:00.001+01:002007-10-05T23:07:56.845+01:00Coming soon to a television near you!Bush Bombs the Baddies: Part III - Iranian Evil Yes that's right folks, just as you were thinking "Part II - Liberate Iraqi Children" was turning into the longest movie in history, plans are already being made to start shooting the sequel. After lengthy discussions about possible plotlines, the original "They're gonna nuke us all!" plot has recently been put on hold over fears that audiences justBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-75673756850252957212007-07-13T14:25:00.000+01:002007-07-13T14:37:52.092+01:00Email to GodTo: God@heaven.comCC: Michael FishSubject: Unnecessary punishment Dear God,look, i know we've had our disagreements in the past. I know I've never been to church and I've had sex outside of marriage. I know I occasionally take your name in vain and make fun of your more devoted followers... but really, isn't this taking things a bit far? I mean punish me, fine. Maybe a few warts or a Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-41378495935887973552007-06-22T13:17:00.000+01:002007-06-22T15:21:39.030+01:00Ramblings of a foolWell, yesterday was the summer solstice. The summer solstice is basically the longest day of the year, so that to me suggests it is now midsummer. So, from that data, if we make a few calculations, we arrive to the conclusion that it should be SUNNY! So, given this irrefutable logic, why the fuck is it still cloudy and raining? Yeah yeah, global warming, climate change etc, ok. But all the globalBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-51951886008617434712007-04-28T18:59:00.000+01:002007-04-28T19:19:35.498+01:00Goddamn FascistsI've just been "Stumbling" around the internet (if you haven't discovered this yet, check it out) and I came across this definition of Fascism. Reading through the points listed I couldn't help but notice that a certain large and unpopular country just north of Mexico seems to fit almost every point. Incidentally, so does Mexico! Luckily for us Blair is not one to be left behind on these things. Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-25011701782165623622007-04-23T15:25:00.000+01:002007-04-23T15:39:31.100+01:00A new homeWow my blog's long. There's bloody loads of it! It's all a bit old now though. But then again, the old bits are the best bits. From when I used to be funny. Those were the days... sigh. Well anyway, despite my current inability to be funny, I have decided to start writing this blog again, although this time under the guise of "The Undercover Hippy" (What a shit name! Who thought of that?!). If Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1163985543582393172006-11-20T01:02:00.000Z2006-11-20T01:19:03.596ZHaaa ha ha ha!While you're all freezing your bollox off in europe, I'm here in mexico, basking in the drizzle, wearing nothing but a t-shirt, fleece, thermal longjohns, goretex jacket, gloves, woolly hat.... hang on a freakin minute here! What's going on?! This isn't right! I want my money back!We've spent most of the day today walking around to try and keep warm. But we're stuck here until Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1163806296154305582006-11-17T23:03:00.000Z2006-11-17T23:31:36.170ZHola!I'm finally on the road again, and finally have something worth writing! I'm in Mexico at the moment, in San Cristobal de las Casas. You should have heard of it, but you probably haven't, as our media is so uttely crap at reporting. It's the town which the Zapatista army took contol of in 1994 to try and get the attention of the goverment and the world media and make their demands for Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1130755314759943222005-10-31T10:34:00.000Z2005-10-31T10:41:54.816ZSweaty Halloween!!It's a funny thing this global warming. Obviously I don't mean I burst out laughing every time I read about carbon emissions, but it's kinda funny wierd sometimes. Like yesterday for example. I was lying on the beach, watching people swimming, soaking up the sunshine, and lamenting the demise of the polar ice caps. Ok, so the last bit isn't true, but it should be, considering Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1128517568814009562005-10-05T13:23:00.001+01:002005-10-05T14:17:18.166+01:00Ahem.... Ahem.... May I have your attention please... I would like to announce my return to the blogging community as of now. I hereby do swear upon the almighty internet that i shall do my best to write seemingly inconsequential yet strangely compelling stories about extremely personal matters, and shall post them on this blog for the world to see. By the powers vested in me i now pronounce thisBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1114234267684886442005-04-23T05:45:00.000+01:002005-04-23T06:31:07.690+01:00Farwell to my love, hello to black slime and chos...Alone again! :( Ester and I had to say a tearful goodbye at Siliguri Station, as she flys from Delhi and I fly from Bombay... But it's not all bad, as we are going to meet up again very soon, either in England or Majorca. :) So, since that parting I have been rediscovering the "joys" of solo travelling, namely having the exact same conversation Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1114155198418137372005-04-22T08:23:00.000+01:002005-04-22T08:33:18.420+01:00Oh my goodness, is it that time already?!I'm afraid it is kids, it's time to go home. By this time nest week i'll be back in the beautiful land of britain, just in time for the General Election! Hooray!! Anyway, I've got loads of stories, and no time, so then how? Anyway, who's in the uk now? Where do you all live? What do you do? Is it fun? Can I join in? With a bit of luck I'll be goin on Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1112861322423008352005-04-07T08:04:00.000+01:002005-04-07T09:08:42.426+01:00Hey Guys!well, despite being utterly shit at writing my journal, I have somehow managed, using Microshit's Paint program, to resize some photos and upload them for you viewing pleasure! (extra swearwords just for Uncle Jim!). You can see them at http://billysalisbury.bebo.comIncidentally, if you haven't joined Bebo.com, go and do it so I can get weekly updates of your new photos and stuff. I Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1110989690380702152005-03-16T15:42:00.000Z2005-03-16T16:14:50.383ZRoom with a View...I am staying in a room with a view at the moment. I can see the sea, palm trees, and lots of piles of rubble that used to be buildings. The town is Mammalapuram, the State: Tamil nadu, and the reason for the rubble: a 10 metre wave, the imapact of which is still clearly visible all around me. A lot has been rebuilt, especially the tourist hotels, restaurants etc, but the Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1109506926744320042005-02-27T11:58:00.000Z2005-02-27T12:22:06.746ZWanakam!I'm lame huh? I totally haven't been writing my blog this trip... it's not that nothing exciting has happened, it's just that... well.... I just can't be arsed to be honest! I know, I'm sorry! Anyway, I'm staying in Kodai Canal at the moment, which is a town in the mountains (they call them hills here) with stunning views blah blah blah... sorry, but i just wrote all this in a mail to my Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1108018294452249712005-02-10T06:13:00.000Z2005-02-10T06:51:34.453ZWatch out for the Dark....
I've been in Varkala for the last 2 days, and so far have managed to have a few classic misadventures... I managed to meet my cousin jed on the day I arrived and we headed off to find a restaurant to have dinner. The restaurants in Varkala are all perched in a long line on the edge of a very high cliff that looks down over the beach. It is very beautiful but insanely Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1107512290207812642005-02-04T09:16:00.000Z2005-02-04T10:18:10.206ZMurder on the Shadapti Express...
Hello again! fancy seeing you here! Ok, ok, I've been a bit slack i know, but I've been hanging out in pretty remote places so haven't had access to these new fangled computing machines. Anyway, here's some highlights of the last few weeks:
Left Mangalore on the 10:30 bus, which left promptly at 11:30. Spent most of the journey so desperate for a piss that I Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1106630121942432352005-01-25T04:49:00.000Z2005-02-04T09:15:11.556ZWell, I've finally done it! I've given up the sand and surf for the bright lights and glittering piss soaked pavements of Managlore City! On the plus side, i actually slept in a bed with a real matress and a real pillow last night!! Pure heaven!! So anyway, I' actually just here on a stop-over as I head towards.. ummmm.... madekiri?? I think that's what it's called. Apparantly it has lots of Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1106209146935750712005-01-20T07:59:00.000Z2005-01-20T08:19:06.936ZOmmmmmmmmmm
I can't be long becuase I'm actually melting and I'm afraid I might drip molten flesh on the carpet... Fuck me it's hot! Anyway, in case you were wondering, I am no longer wasting my time doing very little lying on a beach in goa. I am now doing even less lying on a beach in karnataka. It's a really rather special little beach called Om beach, becaue it's in the shape of an Om... YouBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1105348267540424232005-01-10T08:40:00.000Z2005-01-10T09:11:07.553ZSunset Surprise...
There's something magical about the light at sunset. The way it seems to make everyone look 10 years younger, hides blemishes, deepens suntans, and saturates the whole world with warm apricot. It was during such a sunset that I found myself strolling down the beach with my friend Michelle the other day. It was a stunning piece of beach, where the mouth of a river estuary joinsBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1105094189358337752005-01-07T10:20:00.000Z2005-01-07T10:36:29.356ZAre You Too High?
I had a pretty hectic day yesterday. I decided to go to Mapusa, the nearest town, to see a dentist and get some new CD's made. Everyone told me to rent a motorbike to make the trip, but being stubborn, i decided to take the local bus. Silly me. You see, my mistake was that when picturing the ride on the bus, I had imagined myself sitting down. Sitting down on the local bus is Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1104743377997788592005-01-03T08:52:00.000Z2005-01-03T09:09:37.996ZMan. I've just been reading the news again. It's fucked. So many places I've been have been completely destroyed. I keep thinking about all the people I met there, locals working in guesthouses, shopkeepers etc. For most of them life was a constant struggle anyway, without having some random geological event destroying everything around them. Always seems to be the people who are already being Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1104223919934452762004-12-28T08:41:00.000Z2004-12-28T08:51:59.933ZHi all.
I'm ok, just in case you were wondering. I was quite a way from the coast when the earthquake hit. Still piecing together the news reports. Pretty fucking awful by all accounts. Would like to go and help but think i'd probably get in the way more than be of use... still will check out the possibility... Heading back to goa for new years, have to get sleeper bus tonight. Hopefully will beBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1103815236014539172004-12-23T14:14:00.000Z2004-12-23T15:20:36.013ZHell Ride to Hampi in the Cage of Death
"Maybe if I grab hold of that rail I'll be able to hold myself away from the tarmac" I thought as the bus careered on two wheels towards the black emptiness beyond the roadside. It's funny: you always wonder what will go through your mind the moment before you are killed horribly in a sudden accident; whether you will panic, start screaming and cling on toBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1103273690812501422004-12-17T08:33:00.000Z2004-12-17T08:54:50.813Z...so luke skywalker's sitting with his dad on xmas eve. the fire's going and the xmas tree is twinkling away. then luke's dad says:
(darth vadar breathing and voice) "Luke. I know what your getting for xmas"...
"But Father! How can you know?!"
"I've been feeling your presents for some time now..."
Bu Boom.
as you've probably guessed, I have nothing interesting to say. I hope you like my Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1102933868232487112004-12-13T10:10:00.000Z2004-12-13T10:31:08.233ZHello.
sorry, I know I know, it's been long time... but I've always said that If I'm having a good time then there's no point me writing my blog... I mean you guys don't wanna hear me going on about how relaxing and chilled my life is right? you wanna hear how i nearly got hit by a truck trying to save my pack from being crushed whilst simultaneously puking and crapping myself due to severe Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1102233754784516532004-12-05T07:42:00.000Z2004-12-05T08:07:18.736ZGreetings from Goa.
can't stop to chat, very busy day. work work work... it's relentless I tell you! Today I'm going to be working on my tan for most of the day, with a few breaks to work on my appetite. If I get bored of just sitting around and swimming however, there are countless courses designed for spiritual enhancement dotted along the beach. You can do Tai Chi Yoga mixed with spiritual Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1101631793377590922004-11-28T08:04:00.000Z2004-11-28T08:49:53.376ZBilly Breaks the Indian Music Scene...
The air is filled with exotic wailing as the Bhati family kick off their traditional Rajastani music concert. On the left there is Praveen Bhati, the youngest son, his fingers a blur as he masterfully teases a hundred different tones from his Tabla Drums. In the centre there is Mama Bhati, sitting cross legged before what appears to be an indian version of Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1101280353990000372004-11-24T06:52:00.000Z2004-11-24T07:12:33.990ZGreetings foreign beings!
You may remember a while back I posted a story that I was submitting to a newspaper competition. It was about a chance meeting with a homeless indian man who was fanatical about Alfred Hitchcock and told me a fantastic story about his life, losing his family in the Gujurat earthquake etc etc. Well, the other night I was st around the fire with some other travellers, andBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1100939837385161222004-11-20T07:33:00.000Z2004-11-20T08:37:17.386ZBilly Breaks Bollywood
namaste! Wow what a week! There's just far too many stories to tell you, but I guess I'll just try to tell one or two...
I'm sitting in the garden of an Indian summer mansion in the baking heat wearing an all white Indian pajama suit and a white headscarf. My hands are together in prayer and I have an inane grin on my face. I am grinning because I am watching my 6 year Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1100519558339191902004-11-15T11:51:00.000Z2004-11-15T11:52:38.340ZNamaste!
man, i don't know where to start. I've only been here since yesterday morning, but it feels like a week. This is possibly to do with the fact that I went to sleep and got up twice during the day yesterday due to severe jetlag! The flight was pretty good except for one huge catastrophe: I lost the squishy bit off of on of my sony headphones!! Now this may not seem like a catastrophe to Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1098997139890423912004-10-28T21:31:00.000+01:002004-10-28T21:58:59.890+01:00Ladies and gentlemen!!
The billy's blog experience is about to be re-opened, re-vamped, and reincarnated! That's right, I am finally leaving this wet little island and heading back to india on a journey of awakening! Well, awakening, a-sleeping, and a-eating to be precise... Yes, it's true, I, Billy Salisbury, am going to attempt what only a few million people have been brave enough to attempt Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1095199015319874992004-09-14T22:39:00.000+01:002004-09-14T22:56:55.320+01:00Hey guys!
sorry it's been so long... you know how it is! well, todays been a bit shit to be honest. It started at 9am with a car crash... I was driving into town to do some decorating at my dad's house. I was driving down a main road, which was perfectly straight, and up ahead I saw a car waiting to pull out into the road from a junction on the left. Then, as I drove past him going about 45mph, Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1093619962534814262004-08-27T16:12:00.000+01:002004-08-27T16:27:27.876+01:00Hey guys,
I'm planning on entering a competition in the Guardian (english newspaper) to win 2500 pounds towards my travels and the chance to write weekly updates for them to print in the paper and put on the website. To enter you have to write 500 words explaining what you want to do with the money, i.e. where u want to go and what challenge you intend to set yourself. The best 4 letters will beBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1093448275684825742004-08-25T16:32:00.000+01:002004-08-25T16:37:55.683+01:00Hahahaha!!! I'm in the hereford library using the internet, and i just tried to go to my www.undercoverhippy.com site, but got this response (with a huge red "Stop" logo at the top):
You cannot access the following Web address:
http://www.undercoverhippy.com/
The site you requested is blocked under your organization's filtering policy. It fits into the following filtering category(ies) that yourBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1091298655858631402004-07-31T19:28:00.000+01:002004-07-31T19:30:55.856+01:00Hey guys,
I'm not gonna bother writing anything right now because i've got a feeling everyone will have left by now and stopped checking this blog... but! If a few ppl respond and post a comment I will try to resume my regular posts.... :)
Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1084913623766854532004-05-18T21:28:00.000+01:002004-05-18T21:59:37.826+01:00Wow, what a beutiful day!
It's been so sunny today! It's like summer is finally here! (except that it's forcast to be horrible tomorrow...). I went into town today and did some busking (playing music in public for money). It's the first time I've ever done any busking in England, and I have to say, I was a little nervous. So I set myself up at the opening of a nice little cobbled street called "Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1084544168384304072004-05-14T15:12:00.000+01:002004-05-14T15:16:08.383+01:00Hey guys!
Remember I was working with street kids in a small school in India? WEll they've just finished a new website, and it has lots of great photos (some taken by me, some of me) on there, so go check it out. Also, if you've got a bit of spare cash and you feel like helping a worthy cause... Anyway, check it out: www.joshuakids.orgBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1084399147978427082004-05-12T22:53:00.000+01:002004-05-12T23:00:56.403+01:00Owwww, my eyes hurt!! I came on to write a post, and ended up reading other ppl's blogs for over an hour... I discovered that there is some really fascinating perspectives on the Iraq situation coming from Iraq itself as people begin to to gain access to the internet there.... check it out for yourself:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-04-20-bloggers_x.htm
http://Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1083707978107092802004-05-04T22:59:00.000+01:002004-05-04T23:03:20.280+01:00Orrite.
Names Steve. Steve Pratt. I'm jus riting to say that billy won be writn vis fing anymore cos he dusnt exhist anymore. I av taken control of iz body, due to ve fact that mine died free weeks ago. So ver I was, floatin around the buildin site, lookin down at my crushed body liyin lifeless under the collapsd pile of brix, and i finks to myself, ang on, vis aint right, so i decides jus to Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1082460386201919352004-04-20T12:26:00.000+01:002004-04-20T12:30:24.293+01:00Toothache Medication to Deep State Meditation
Well, this is it. The day has arrived, and I must go. It's been a pleasure knowing you all, and i'm sure you all understand that once I return from these 10 days of soul searching i will most likely be on a different spiritual plane from the rest of you, and therefore unable to associate with you any longer. Well, maybe not. But hey, who knows? Will Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1081466289463955392004-04-09T00:18:00.000+01:002004-04-09T00:21:52.530+01:00Good evening.
Today was a fairly interesting day by my newly revised and alarmingly low standards. First I attemted to remove some of the stuff cluttering up my room and put it in the attic, but got distracted by the things that were already in the attic and ended up bringing them down instead of putting more up.... Then i went to town to meet the finance lady at the Art College and discuss pay Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1081095291420682382004-04-04T17:14:00.000+01:002004-04-05T12:34:03.030+01:00Wassup G's?
I just got offered a possible job! It's pretty perfect as well. It's just 2 days a week working at the Hereford Art College, helping students with their projects using computers and things like that. Bargain! Looks like it's time to dredge all my creative computer genius back up to the surface of my brain... *ahem*. Mmmmm, looks like I'm gonna be in hereford for a while really.... myBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1080920744096449112004-04-02T16:45:00.000+01:002004-04-05T12:35:18.950+01:00Right. I've just spent bloody ages trying to create a photo album using dreamweaver. It's still a bit shit, but at least you can see some photos, and right now I dont have time to tidy it up... maybe later... go to www.billysalisbury.com/photos/bolivia-peru/index.htm
I've just signed myself up for a 10 day meditation retreat. It's something i've wanted to do for a while, but man it's quite Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1080393463834695052004-03-27T13:17:00.000Z2004-03-27T13:21:10.390ZOla,
well, it's reached that time I'm afraid. The Undercover Hippy is going to do some work. I know I know, it's wrong, but sometimes we have to break the rules a little! Starting monday I will be working for my dad a few days a week in his carpentry/window making business, and earning my keep like all the other normal people out there. I'm still not really sure why I'm still here at all.... I Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1079999098850903152004-03-22T23:44:00.000Z2004-03-22T23:48:19.013ZOk, here's the other one:
A Slight Delay: Crossing Cambodia in a Day.
"You wait 5 minutes", said the driver of our van, motioning for us to get out and stretch our legs. "But we've only just started driving?!", we muttered to one another as we carefully extracted ourselves from our sardine can on wheels. We were twenty minutes into our journey, not even at the edge of town yet, and our two Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1079709819669729602004-03-19T15:23:00.000Z2004-03-19T15:57:22.293ZI have just spent bloody ages manually changing every hyphen and quotation mark in this piece so I can post it up. If anyone can explain to me why "slanted" quotation marks as produced my MS word are not acceptable for putting on the web, please tell me how I can avoid them in future!!! Anyway, here's one of my attempts to re-write my travel tales to send off to magazines for publishing... pleae Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1079536700926819572004-03-17T15:18:00.000Z2004-03-17T15:21:34.466ZWow, this is so bizarre! I've just been checking out the stats for my site, and there's something on there called "search strings", which I can only guess means people who've done a search for something and been given my site in their results. (If you know exactly what it means please tell me). Anyway, check out the results:
2 5.06% wanking old men
3 3.80% money
2 Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1079535500235504082004-03-17T14:58:00.000Z2004-03-17T15:01:33.966ZHi all,
I've recently started trying to learn some meditation/relaxation techniques to help me with a problem I have with chronic muscle tension (and maybe help me discover the meaning of life in the process). The problem is, I'm crap at it. The general idea behind most forms of meditation is to focus the mind, quieting all those random thoughts that keep flying aimlessly around inside your Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1079095613105633162004-03-12T12:46:00.000Z2004-03-17T15:03:05.373Z"Yo. Hey what's happenin' dude? I'm a guy with a rep for bein crude. Sodomising people, wherever I go, it's not intentional, just pimpin the ho. Fixin wet sores to get the best whores, dripping bacteria, all over the floor, I'm the kid who made it cool to pee and fart, last name simpson, first name bart."
For those who never heard the original "Do the Bart Man", I apologise for that strange and Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1078441534435297062004-03-04T23:05:00.000Z2004-03-04T23:08:31.360ZEvenin' all.
well, it's been a riproaringly eventful day in the bustling metropolis of hereford. I got up, read a chapter of "Harry potter: the order of the phoenix" (Harry just got detention for mentioning that Lord Voldemort has returned), tried unsucessfully to record a couple of songs, went to the cinema with my sister Laura and saw "Along came Polly" (predictable but amusing cringe movie Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1077993139632858442004-02-28T18:32:00.000Z2004-02-28T18:35:09.296ZHi Kids,
well, I'm sitting here in my brother's room (soon to be mine! Hahaaa!) trying to write and record some songs. It's starting to get a bit tricky. After the initial elation of managing to finally get some of my songs down on disc, I am now at that tricky stage of actually having to FINISH some of my songs so that I can FINISH recording them. I have tons of half songs! I have actually Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1077710915717729522004-02-25T11:56:00.000Z2004-02-25T12:11:21.403ZGod I hate computers!!!! Whyyyyyy???!!!! Actually, more to the point, I hate Microsoft. I blame them for everything wrong with the world today. Bus didn't come on time? Fucking Microsoft. Tea went cold before you drunk it? Fucking Microsoft. Couldn't get it up? Fucking Microsoft!!!
I dread to think of the chaos they will cause once we all become bionic. Once they figure out how to make a brain/Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1077454938047864402004-02-22T13:01:00.000Z2004-02-22T13:07:16.030ZMorning.
I'm still here! Don't go! Don't leave me here all alone!!! I'm sorry! I know I've been lame, but I can change!! Just give me one more chance, I'm begging you!!! Ok, apology over. The thing is you see, that living in England really isn't very interesting. At least not for me anyway, mainly due to the fact that I'm english. I think maybe if I came from Mongolia I'd have hundreds of witty Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1077233831739363982004-02-19T23:21:00.000Z2004-02-19T23:39:49.746ZHi there my friends,
had you given up on me? I nearly had.... but no!! I'm still here! You wont belieeeeve what happened to me today!!!! ....... Nothing!! Amazing huh?! So, rather than bitch at you about my agonising decision of what to do with my life, I thought it would be better to give you an old story I just discovered on my pc. Don't worry, it's a freshie! It's from my trip to cambodia a Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1076514313532454472004-02-11T15:45:00.000Z2004-02-11T15:47:40.373ZHi Guys,
I've finally managed to add the messaging service again, so please feel free to say hi and drop some comments...
laters...Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1076427782353569332004-02-10T15:43:00.000Z2004-02-10T15:45:27.873Zgood morning!
As each day goes by here I can feel a metamorphosis taking place. Every time I'm asked what my "plans" are, I find it harder and harder to tell people that I'm going to make money playing the guitar, either here or in some other far flung destination. Words like "realistically", "practical" and "feasibly", have started creeping into my mind, planted there by the concern and Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1076178509963113932004-02-07T18:00:00.000Z2004-02-07T18:30:51.950ZWell, from what I've seen of England through my protective haze of drunkenness, it's grey. It's as if someone has left it in a shop window in the sun (hah! the irony!) and all the colour has been drained out of it. Admittedly my first taste of the UK after my flight was in fact heathrow airport, terminal 4. Terminal 4 has an illness, and yes, it is terminal. It's possibly the drabbest, most Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1076019014853434742004-02-05T22:10:00.000Z2004-02-05T22:12:34.543ZNooooooo!
its the final blog of my trip...... this trip anyway! am going to get flight in about.... mmmm... like 5 mins ago actually, so don´t have time to write about all the funny things that have happened to me in the last day (there´s been a fair few!). Just wanted to make one last blog from a warm country...... ahhhhhhh.
ok. This is billy salisbury, on the other side of the world, saying Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1075929641200378672004-02-04T21:20:00.000Z2004-02-04T21:22:59.373ZGetting pissed in Machu Pichu.....
What is it about me and phone calls?? I have been trying for the last 3 days to re-confirm my flight home from Lima, and each time have either been fobbed off with a different number, put on hold indefinitely, or just hung up on completely! And everywhere I read about Lima airport it says to make absolutely sure you reconfirm your flight at least 72 hours in Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1075848549266799152004-02-03T22:49:00.000Z2004-02-03T22:51:25.796ZGod I feel rough.
well well, it´s been an eventful week. I´ve been travelling in high speed mode for the last few weeks, and now it´s finally all over. I fly to lima tomorrow morning and then fly to london the following day, arriving on friday. So this is the end of an era. I´ll still be writing my blog but I can´t see it being as interesting... at least I´ll have more to moan about!! Anyway, Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1075344593217798542004-01-29T02:49:00.000Z2004-01-29T02:52:02.060ZDamn I don't wanna leave! I've had such a crazy day!
After writing my last entry, I went into a travel agent and finally worked out some kind of plan as to how I get to my flight in time. 30 mins and $100 later, I had a flight from Cusco to Lima, and a bus ticket from here to Cusco, via Copacabana. But my new plan means I have to leave at 7:30 tomorrow morning. I figured better to have an extra Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1075318366855202642004-01-28T19:32:00.000Z2004-01-28T19:40:41.123ZHowdy.
How can it be that the longer I travel the closer I get to England?! Who's idea was it to make the world round anyway? If it was flat I could keep on travelling until I reached the edge, and I rekon that would be a spectacle to rival even the mighty Iguazu Falls in Argentina. I suppose I could do a spiral, always just missing Northern Europe, which let's face it, sucks. I guess Africa's Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1075087132723048842004-01-26T02:27:00.000Z2004-01-26T03:20:58.043ZOla!
Well, it´s been a long long time eh? Sorry, but I´ve been travelling so fast that I haven´t had time to write! So here´s a bit of a run down of what´s been happening.....
I had a great time in Santiago, hooking up with my good friend Paula. I also met her cousins, and spent my last day with her cousin Benjamin doing touristy stuff before heading off for my bus to San Pedro de Atacama. TheBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1074465373931629092004-01-18T22:36:00.000Z2004-01-18T22:45:58.576ZBattle of the Planets...
The world is in a terrible state. Everyone hates everyone else, the environment hates us all, and every day the polarisation of the planet's population increases. So what's the solution? Discussion? Compassion? Aggression? No, it's none of the above. It is, as my favourite dictator, George Dubbya, has just pointed out: to land on Mars. Thank god someone has been thinkingBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1074277911613895572004-01-16T18:31:00.000Z2004-01-16T18:40:24.436ZGoddamn Greedy Hippies....
After a few days in El Bolsen, the initial impression of a charming enclave of aging hippies has begun to subside, and I now see it for its true self: A centre for hippy capitalism. The focus of this money making enterprise is the thrice weekly market, at which all the hippies gather to push their goods on you. So there I am, peacefully going about my business, contentBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1074124271619071962004-01-14T23:51:00.000Z2004-01-14T23:53:01.826ZIt´s been too long! I´ve forgotten what I´ve been doing! Ok, I´ll do my best....
We set off for El Chalten on a rickety old bus with the imaginatively named "El Chalten Travel", and after 6 hours of driving through the wilderness we arrived in strange little settlement itself. The first thing we noticed as we got off the bus were the 80 mile and hour winds, the second was the dust blowing in Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1073512916444732482004-01-07T22:01:00.000Z2004-01-07T22:03:37.983ZMan, am I tired....
So, it´s been a while I know, and I´m sorry ok, but just chill alright! Jeez! ;) Anyway, here´s a brief rundown of events so far:
Woke up on Tues morning feeling like crap after about 5 hours of sleep. Said goodbye to our lovely hotel room and got a cab to the airport. The flight was fairly uneventful, except for me finishing "Lif of Pi" and suddenly discovering that I Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1073346276697905082004-01-05T23:44:00.000Z2004-01-05T23:46:15.076ZGo Frodo! Go Frodo!
So, I finally got to see LOTR... all 3.5 hours of it! Well, I enjoyed it enourmously. My only critisism is that after it finished, i.e. after Frodo had destroyed the ring, recovered, seen all his friends, and Aragorn had been crowned, the movie then continued for another 30 mins!!!! What was that all about??? They´d reached the climax, and tied up the loose ends; it was over!Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1073252954524707172004-01-04T21:16:00.000Z2004-01-04T21:50:51.420ZBack in BA......
I just had a really crap meal. It was basically spagetti with ketchup on but it had been given a fancy italian name to try and fool me. And to add insult to injury, the meal didn´t cost 10 pesos as the sign outside had stated, it cost 12, because of course we had forgotten to take into account the "cutlery charge". "The what??!" I hear you cry, and well you might, for it truly Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1072997892875745062004-01-01T22:58:00.000Z2004-01-01T22:59:45.780ZHappy New Year!!!
well, I dont know where to start really... Yesterday was a bit of a mad one. It all started at about 3pm.........
I was heading down to the beach with Joanna to try and breakfast after a typically long lie in. We made it over the wobbly bridge but just before we reached the restaurant we were called over by a big bald black brazilian beefcake called... Papiku. Papiku has a Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1072821731073383212003-12-30T21:40:00.000Z2003-12-30T22:03:42.060ZToo many tourists spoil the beach...
I tried to go and see Lord Of The Rings yesterday. Didn't see it mind. First of all we spent 3 hours on a local bus that should take 45 mins. The roads were completely jammed with cars. Every few hours the number of tourists here doubles! We are now officially trapped here until after new year, as I dont think we could get out even if we tried! So anyway, we Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1072640383445199892003-12-28T19:39:00.000Z2003-12-28T19:41:11.106ZOi!
Merry Xmas again. I had a funny experience the other night. Me and Joanna were walking back to the house and we passed a very cute little dog. The Dog looked at us and we looked back and said hi, so he started to follow us. After a few minutes we reached the house but the dog carried on walking ahead and i figured he obviously wasn't following us after all but lived somewhere nearby. So we Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1072551222981258712003-12-27T18:53:00.000Z2003-12-27T18:55:09.093ZDear Friends and Family,
I regret to inform you that Billy Salisbury will be unavailable for christmas greetings this year as he is presently occupied with getting a tan, drinking beer, smoking weed, and lying in a hammock reading a book about victorian lesbians. I would also like to inform you that Billy is not, as you have suggested, in Argentina, but is actually in Brasil, in a place called Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1072365730164569442003-12-25T15:14:00.000Z2003-12-25T15:25:27.340ZMerry Xmas!!!!!
I hope your all well and having a good xmas wherever you are. I'm doing pretty good. Yesterday we ended up at the house of some young brazilians who live over the road from us, drinking beer and smoking. In Brazil they do all the celebrating on xmas eve rather than xmas day, so today feels quite ordinary really. But we're going to have a proper xmas dinner at a hostel run by someBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1072211226215930142003-12-23T20:16:00.000Z2003-12-23T20:28:27.560ZAt Last!!!!!!!!
My blog has been broken for the last week, and hasn't wanted to post anything! Technology has been my enemy of late. I have also lost all my photos since arriving in s america due to a corrupt Sony Memory Stick. Corruption is a big problem in digital photography, and I obviously didn't grease the right palms at the right moments, hence my loss of data. Anyway, back to the Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1071884369112610762003-12-20T01:19:00.000Z2003-12-20T20:32:23.903ZBack into the fire....
Oh my god help me, i think my eyeballs are melting. I´ve just arived, after 24 hours of bus travel, in the town of Puerto iguazu, in the north east of argentina. My reason for being here? To see the mighty Iguazu Falls, probably the most impressive set of waterfalls in the world. Or so i´m told. They looked good in the postcard! But yeah, it´s kinda warm here, and all the Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1071520541108821392003-12-15T20:35:00.000Z2003-12-15T20:36:51.936ZOla Chicos!
man am i tired! It's been a long couple of days. It all started on saturday evening....
I was starting to feel a little recovered from my flu and I decided that I would go out and party. At about 11pm we headed out for dinner and a few bottles of red wine, before heading back to the hostel for a snooze. At 2am somebody shook me awake. "Billy! It's time to go out!". What could they Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1071259544780932032003-12-12T20:05:00.000Z2003-12-12T23:56:17.640ZMan I�m bored.
I�m so sick of being sick!!! I�m trying so hard to not do anything so that I can recover in time for the weekend, but now it�s friday and I�m still sick as a dog! Bollox! And I know I�ll probably end up having a couple of beers tonight and then be even more sick tomorrow... anyway, enough moaning, let me try to continue from where I left off last post....
So we arrived in San Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1071167397344754102003-12-11T18:29:00.000Z2003-12-11T18:31:02.826ZHello there,
I�m sick. It�s been so long since I last had a proper cold/flu type thing that I�d forgotten how shit it is. Anyway, sickness aside, I�ve been having a pretty interesting time....
After my last post I decided that I needed to move to get myself back on track, and later that afternnon I discovered a note on my bed that I�d obviously missed before. It was from Nicole and it said thatBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1070732970839130312003-12-06T17:49:00.000Z2003-12-06T17:50:29.343ZOhhhhhhhh my head....
I went out to a club last night for the first time in ages. Going out clubbing here is so different from clubbing at home. At home you go out to the club at about 10pm and it closes at about 3am. Here you go out to the club at 3am, and it closes at about 10am!!! Anyway, the club was completely packed wall to wall with beautiful girls.. in fact I think it was about 3 to 1 inBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1070677459516527032003-12-06T02:24:00.000Z2003-12-06T02:25:17.513ZThe mullet is coming back.... what, it went away??
Aregentina is officially the capital of beatiful women and men with mullets. It's amazing. 8 out of 10 women are fit, and 8 out of 10 men have mullets. It's almost like argentina never quite moved on from the mexico 86 footbal world cup. Think back if you can to that time and you will remember that every team in that world cup had mullets... nowBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1070575513045555862003-12-04T22:03:00.000Z2003-12-04T22:06:09.763ZCheck out this news story from today�s Independant. Fucked up!
"Meiwes said he grabbed a kitchen knife, switched on a video camera and severed the organ. Brandes was bleeding profusely. But Meiwes bound the wound, cut the penis in two and fried it. The two ate it with salt, pepper and garlic. Meiwes told Stern that it tasted "tough and unpalatable"."
read the full story here
Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1070458123108085132003-12-03T13:28:00.000Z2003-12-03T13:29:37.733Zeating and being eaten...
We went to a restaurant last night that was recomended for its all you can eat buffet. I was expecting a cheapie little place, but when we arrived it turned out to be a huge posh restaurant with just about every food imaginable, from massive steaks flame grilled over a huge barbecue, freshly made ravioli, pizzas, starters, deserts, you name it they had it, and all for Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1070404321511433322003-12-02T22:32:00.000Z2003-12-03T13:15:19.950ZA shit memory and rizla chess...
Man my memory sucks. First I left my fleece in santiago (which I have decided will make a great song title: I left my fleeeece in saaaannnnntiiiiagooooo...). Then I decided that seeing as I had to go back to santiago to get it before heading north, I�d make a stop at a little place an american guy recomended to me called Isla Negra. Then I could head straight offBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1069785111249970552003-11-25T18:31:00.000Z2003-11-25T18:32:35.546ZOla!
Well I�m still in Valparaiso, trying to learn spanish! Damn these verb conjugations! So, what has been happening to me... mmmm. I had a rather awkward experience yesterday. I had to go and see the doctor just to check up on a problem I�ve been having with my prostate for some time, and I�d been putting it off for ages cos I knew that the doc would probably want to have a fiddle with my Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1069430991707197512003-11-21T16:09:00.000Z2003-11-21T16:10:29.890ZOla!
Well, I have to admit, those first couple of days in Santiago were a bit miserable. I met approximately NO people at all, spoke about 20 words to another human being, and slept about 6 hours. But all that changed yesterday.....
I was supposed to meet up with Paula (girl I met on the plane) the night before for drinks, but when I called her she said that she couldn�t make it, but that the Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1069249476489537692003-11-19T13:44:00.000Z2003-11-19T13:45:11.450ZMi cuarto es muy ruidoso!
God Damn! I did it again! After wandering around the streets of Santiago yesterday, I went back to the hotel about 4pm and just lay down for a second to collect my thoughts..... and then woke up completely lost once more, not sure what time or day it was! Luckily it was only 8:30pm so there was still time to go and get some food. I headed off to this little cafe i foundBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1069166359479342032003-11-18T14:39:00.000Z2003-11-19T13:30:19.090ZPainful flights and Sleepless nights...
Buenos Dias!
I�m now in Santiago, so I guess I�d better give you a quick run down of what�s happened to me since my last blog entry:
I left Wellington and started hitching North after catching a train to a town just outside the city. I got a lift after just a few minutes and was soon on my way to somewhere or other... My second lift was with a middle Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1068418393716319122003-11-09T22:53:00.000Z2003-11-09T22:56:55.060ZBedding down in a Borstal...
After a pretty uneventful ferry ride over the Cook Straights, I arrived in Wellington at about 9:30pm, and was picked up by a guy from "Rowena Lodge" where I had booked a bed. The wind was so strong that the van was rocking violently from side to side and it was bloody freezing, but I didn't mind because I was looking forward to seeing the hostel, which was describedBillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1068173937642445492003-11-07T02:58:00.000Z2003-11-07T03:05:01.576ZI'm 26, but do I look it?
I went into the supermarket the other day to get some groceries. After finally managing to force myself to the checkout without picking up the kalamata olives, feta cheese, nachos, salsa, and countless other delicious things that were screaming from the shelves to be eaten, I was confronted by a young girl sat behind the till. When i say young, i mean like about 12 Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1067653623429229562003-11-01T02:27:00.000Z2003-11-01T02:27:14.606ZWell, I finally left Nelson. My mate Rob dropped me at the edge of town and I stuck my thumb out and soaked up the early morning rays. Within about 20 mins I got a lift with the principal of a local primary school. When he found out I was english, he wanted to know if I was a Royalist. I told him I thought the Royal Family should be moved into council houses and all their treasure sold and their Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923225.post-1067471884066454692003-10-29T23:58:00.000Z2003-10-29T23:58:11.403ZI was supposed to leave today....
but it's soo hard! When you wake up and you can hear the rain drumming on the roof, the thought of hitching is just so unappealing! So I'm stuck in Nelson once again... tomorrow I'm gonna leave for sure....
Anyway, what's new? I went busking yesterday for the first time ever! It was a glorious sunny day so I picked up my little guitar and headed into town. Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14831883181341355126noreply@blogger.com0