Posts from ‘Planes Trains & Elephants’
Hookers, strippers and lemon chicken.
Monday, February 15th, 2010
I’ve just come back from a buck’s party weekend. It was for my friend Nick and we had hookers and strippers and then we stripped Nick naked and chained him to a lamp post. Actually (and thankfully) it was all rather tame. We drove up to Mulwala (which is over the border in New South Wales) where there was golfing and boating followed by a Chinese dinner at the Mulwala Ski Club, drinks in the ‘nightclub’ and a quiet game of Texas holdem poker back at our rather flash townhouse by the lake. No one fell over, no one threw up and Nick didn’t get stripped naked and wrapped in toilet paper then thrown into the gutter… (read more)
Karaoke World Tour – Sweden
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
In Part Four of Brian’s Karaoke World Tour we’re off to Sweden. And Finland. Well, it’s actually in the middle of the two on the overnight Stockholm to Turku ferry (this was part of my ‘Ferry’ chapter for my book Planes, Trains & Elephants). I was leading a group of Hong Kong Chinese on a Russia/Scandinavia tour for tour company Top Deck and my passengers were very, very excited because there was an all-you-can-eat buffet followed by karaoke. I both love and loathe buffets. I love them because you have so much food to choose from, and I loathe them because you have so much food to choose from… (read more)