A happy-go-lucky English rambler dude goes to New Zealand for a year. Here he interfaces with some of those he left behind and details his nefarious activities. Or summat.
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Sunday, September 01, 2002
Without wanting to get too nauseating here, by way of a bit of a conclusion for my years travelling, i'd like to quote Jeff Tweedy (Lead singer of Wilco) who last night sang,
"There's so much less to this than meets the eye".
Can't remember which song it was from (I'd had several pints of Kokanee by then), or what on earth he actually meant by it, but to me, it sort of summed up how i've come to feel about travelling. Before i left it seemed like such a big, scary thing to do, but in fact it's been one of the easiest, and most rewarding things i've ever done. So hopefully people reading this, may take some kind of inspiration from the fact that, if i can manage to get my ass round the world in one piece, then literally anyone can do it.
And if you ever get in trouble on your travels, just do what i do when i'm a bit lost - put on your best English accent, look a bit hapless and more often than not someone will come along help you out. Trust me, it works!
11:15 pm
