Posts made during June, 2010
Brian in Byron (say that 5 times really fast).
Monday, June 7th, 2010
The program for the 2010 Byron Bay Writer’s Festival has just been released. It’s such a great program this year (and not just because I’m in it!). Amongst those literary luminaries appearing at this year’s festival (as well as poets, historians, journalists, novelists, playwrights, bloggers, song writers and biographers) are Fatima Bhutto (granddaughter of former Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and niece of Benazir Bhutto), Bret Easton Ellis (author of cult classic American Psycho), Kathy Lette (of Puberty Blues fame), John Doyle (of Roy and H.G. fame), Tony Martin (of The D-Generation and The Late Show fame), Alex Miller (with just a couple of The Miles Franklin Literary Awards to his name), Reg Mombassa… (read more)
Five ways to shit your pants.
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
On my recent blog about my loop-de-loop flight on a Tiger Moth biplane one of my readers (thanks Adrian) said that he would have shat his pants if he’d done it. He also suggested that I do a blog about the scariest encounters in my travels. I have been scared a few times in my travels (restaurant bills in Europe scare the hell out of me for a start), but thankfully nothing too bad has happened to me – oh, beside getting a gun put to me head and almost dying in West Africa. Anyway, here is my Top 5 Scariest Encounters (in no particularly scary order):
Gun to the head – Trans Mongolian train, Russia
The train was trundling along through the middle of Siberia when I was confronted by two scarily drunk Russians on my way back from the dining car. One asked a me a question in Russian and… (read more)