23/1/07 Aga po Seo, oumana seo, ounou seo and yahana seo to all you Dogon Bogons and flying pygmies Well, we are currently in Ouagadougou (pronounced Wagadoogoo), which is the capital of Burkina Faso and it would have to be the coolest named capital city that we have been to outside of...
Tips For Getting To The Festival Au Desert In Timbuktu, MALI 2007
Disclaimer: Mali like the rest of the Islamic world has now become a dangerous place to visit so the following information in this blog about the Festival is now outdated. I am leaving it posted on the net to show how it was once a safe place to visit. 6/12/07 Hi everybody Well...
Timbuktu & The Festival Au Desert 2007
15/1/07 Bonjour to all you mighty Tuaregs and smelly Toerags Well, we are now back in Sevare in central Mali after arriving from a week in Timbuktu which included the 3 day music Festival au Desert in Essakane… And all we can say is that getting to Timbuktu was easy, but...
HOLY POO!!! We Are In TIMBUKTU!!!!
10/1/07 Bonjour Tout Le Monde Hey Holy Crap!!! We thought that if we were sitting at home in an office, then it would be really cool to get an email from Timbuktu!!!! ….So here it is WE ARE IN FRIGGIN TIMBUKTU!!!!!!! This is only a short email since the internet is...
The Bamako Whacko With A Big Knife In Mali
9/1/07 Bonjour and I ni sogoma to all you funky cats and grande femmes d’Afrique Well, we are currently in a dusty little town called Sevare in the middle of Mali, and after 5 days here Mali is DEFINITELY living up to its reputation as a hard travel destination. So far we...
I Bless The Rains Down In AFRICA, But Not Ireland!
1/1/07 Bonjour Mes Amis and a snappy new rear to all Well, we are currently at Casablanca airport in Morocco en route to Mali and today is one of those days where we will have had breakfast in Dublin, lunch in Paris, dinner in Casablanca, and a nightcap in Bamako, Mali… which may...
…There Won’t Be Snow In Africa This Christmas Time… But There Could Be Aliens And Terrorists!!!
25/12/06 Our photos from when we went down to South Park? http://www.sp-studio.de/ Hey there to all you funky monkeys and secret squirrels and a big Nollaig Shona Dhuit which is Merry Christmas in Irish. Well, it is currently a freezing cold Christmas eve in County Kerry, Ireland and today we did the traditional Irish...
New York Pity And Expat Envy
29/11/06 Hey there to all you New Yorkers, New Porkers and Big Apples… Well we are currently at JFK airport in New York about to head back to Ireland after having 8 fantastic days in the Big Apple, and all we can say is that New York is DEFINITELY the greatest city on...
Extreme Pain In Spain: Our 50th Country… YAY!!!
18/11/06 Hola y como estas muchachos, muchachas, cucurachas and barrachas Well, we are currently in Madrid in Spain and we have just finished our breakfast of pig’s blood sausage, rabbit livers in paprika and onion, and kidney stew of some unknown animal, but whose kidneys look bigger than a chicken’s but smaller than...
Not All Portu-gals Are Lisbians, But They Could Be Space Aliens
6/11/06 Bom Dia to all you Portugeese and Portuganders Well we are currently sitting in a cafe in Lagos on the Algarve coast in southern Portugal, and last week we made a very eye opening pilgrimage to Fatima in central Portugal. Now, for all you non-Catholics out there, Fatima is considered as probably...
Dead Bodies And Beehive Monasteries In Ireland
28/10/06 Cead Mile Failte Rowhat to all you funky monkeys & peppercorn leprechauns… which means 100 thousand welcomes in Irish… Well, we are still in Ireland on the Ring Of Kerry but we are coming up to the end of my 10 week term working here and tomorrow we will be heading out...
Stand & Deliver: The Coolest Experience Of My Career
8/10/06 Hey there friends, family and other furry animals Well, after our last blog about the guy that slit his throat, we got so many emails full of nice words and pats on the back that we were quite overwhelmed by it all, so I thought I’d better start this blog off by...