Posted in London, Mobile Internet on Oct 22nd, 2008
Once again we’re in London, and again plagued with connectivity issues. Dear readers, never use the UK 3’s 3G (dis)service; it’s unequivocally shit! An Eifel tower is planted right next to us, marred with comm. stuff and yet there’s limited/no service!? And the guys in the 3 stores have zero technical knowledge—my grandma would be [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Oct 16th, 2008
We’ve decided to go back to Aus. The adventure has been great, but to go on would be to just see and do more of the same (we assume) and for us that is not worth the effort of working in the van. There is plenty of good rock to climb in Aus, after all. [...]
After all the climbing on limestone my arms were screaming for a much-needed rest so Ol hesitantly relented—even negative walls won’t peel him off rock!—and agreed to come along to the city of water. After a 3-hour trip from Arco, we offloaded at the only train station in Venice along with the heavy herd of [...]
Arco, Italy, was (our satnav brain assured us) best approached by firstly coaxing the Taj up the remaining rise of the Alps which, with cabin heaters on to control engine temperature, we did. Luckily the road was wide enough at times for us to let past the Mercedes convertibles and Audi station wagons banking up [...]
Posted in Switzerland on Oct 6th, 2008
All the clichés regarding Switzerland are not exaggerated (yes, cow bells, clocks and pocketknives) and it is totally neat, clean, and crimeless. Apparently there’s a law against flushing the toilet after 10 pm (and men are not allowed to stand up while peeing); perhaps an urban myth, but all the same it wouldn’t shock me [...]