Al Priest’s Blog

Yay! Oktoberfest. We went out on the first night to an Oktoberfest-style beer house in the centre of town. Needless to say that we got way too drunk trying to teach E and the Americans sat next to us how to flip bar mats, and then play “shove ‘apenny”.
The British were clearly leagues ahead of [...]

Boring. Go somewhere else.
However, their cake shops are good. They have some old buildings too, and a really big “castle” with grounds we explored.
Don’t bother with walking up the spire of the cathedral, having ascended the 350ish steps, we found that it was covered in scaffolding and we couldn’t see out. (Of course, some might [...]

Zagreb is a great place – a neat, tidy, friendly city with loads of outdoor bars and pubs. Lots of trees, little pollution and the sun made this a great break from the smoggy Belgrade, and cold Sofia.
Arriving at the station there were no ‘Information? I give you information – very cheap. Where you go?’ [...]

What a journey. 11 hours on a train. The customs and border patrols into Serbia, although apparently unarmed, were still sufficiently scary looking to drive the fear of god into the women clothes traffickers.
Still, the scenery en route was pretty spectacular in places with big cavernous gorges cutting through high mountains. It’s obvious that Serbia [...]

After a 5 hour train trip to Thessaloniki from Athens, punctuated with various games from our travel compendium, we found a bar on the waterfront and had our first beer of the day. As our connecting train to Sofia (Bulgaria) wasn’t for another 5 hours, one beer quickly became several more. In summary, Thessaloniki was [...]

3am start. I didn’t know that time existed. Odd to be sharing the first train of the morning with the partygoers heading home.
Arrived in Athens refreshed for having a Batchelors Cup-a-soup en route. Very hot, 30c. Put the regulation sandals, shorts and shades on – i’m officially a tourist.
Visited the Acropolis very dusty, very hot [...]

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A nice story about a game show whose random number generator, wasn’t quite random.

The Google / Amazon / etc search box in Firefox is very useful, but a little bit bigger (or at least a customisable width) would make it so much nicer. Today I came across an extension which provides a ‘grab’ handle to let you resize the search box to suit your needs.