The flight here is the longest of my travels and it was actually fairly painless. Got moved from my original seat cos my tv screen wasnt working and ended up with more legroom and a spare seat next to me. Even though i didnt sleep - i never can on planes- the 12 hours went by kind of quick. I finally got to see the 2nd half of tropic thunder after my whole pizza-left-in-the-oven debacle back in glasgow. Its really not as good as it should have been is it? The h...

so after the perfect start - going out drinking with tom and friends the night before and getting 4 hrs sleep (one hour more than before the last flight) i was on my way to LA. Flight was ok but AA are crap compared to ba-no food on the plane, rrrrrrrubbish! TV was quite good though, crappy US sitcoms which i obviously loved. As a bonus flight was only 5hrs when i thought 6. Got a scary Russian cab driver ,who would not stop telling me to get drunk on vodka in a...

so having made the perfect start to my travels (got hammered the night before departure-check. got 3 hours sleep-check. woke up 5mins before the taxi was due-check) i was on my way. Met Blair/Ross and Dave at Heathrow en route to new york. Having left my bags at Tom's apartment me and the boys got the subway up to Harlem (yes, Harlem) to find their hostel. I somehow managed to get myself in a bit of an argument trying to get off the subway and got some of the fam...

hello all. just a quickie to say it's my leavin night on saturday in moskito. come one come all it should be good and there's a good chance you'll get to see me cry!

hi, so i've just set up this journal (is it technically a journal?) and thought i'd start it off with a pre-travels entry or two. i'm currently sitting in my lounge pants in the flat on hopehill gardens watching liverpool v PSV with jamie. (it'll be really weird when i look back on this 6 months from now) It's exactly 4 weeks til i leave and i'm slightly worried that i havent sorted out a) any visas b) any travel insurance c) any sort of accomodation d) a credi...