Category: Personal

Another sunny day so as planned we went to see Leeds. Leeds is a big city with a lively center (street shows and all) swarming with shoppers. We just walked around there for a few hours, ate and went back home. Yet another good day.

Tomorrow we plan to get ready for our trip to Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, which is on Saturday morning. And absolutely nothing more (so we’re practically just being lazy :)

It was a sunny and perfect day to go walk around Barnsley, where we ran some errands and just hung out. Later on we celebrated the 11th birthday of our host’s son, which was fun as well. And so the day ended. Tomorrow – Leeds.

We went to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park today. This is a national park that spans across 500 acres of parkland and outdoor sculptures galleries. It was a great way to spend the day and we came home tired and content (pictures below.)

No special plans for tomorrow except for a visit to Barnsley, the neighboring town, for some errands.

While it was pretty warm today there was no sun at all so we decided to be lazy and watch movies at home. Later we went to walk outside and played Tag with some kids in the park.

I finally got my Prodigy tickets (see picture below.) Thanks, Udi!! In case you didn’t catch the last time I wrote about it, I’m going to see The Prodigy in four different shows. And yes, this is basically “the same” show four different times although no two shows are the same when it comes to The Prodigy.

Katz will be joining me on the first show in Cardiff on April 5th, which also happens to be her birthday. I still don’t have a partner for the Birmingham show on April 9th – it may be Katz again if she wants, or Mune, the American guy from Tokyo I met early on the trip. Neil will join me to the Brighton show on April 14th and a friend of mine from Israel that lives in London will join me to the Wembley show on April 17th, just before I go back home.

It was a cool sunny day today so we went out to walk in one of the footpaths around here that goes through the fields and ends in a warm and cozy pub called The Cherry Tree on the top of a hill which overlooks the surrounding area. Again we thought we were planning something lazy but ended up walking quite a lot (probably more than 10 km.)

In one week it’s both Katz’s birthday and the first Prodigy concert we’re going to so I’m very excited. I still don’t have the tickets, but they’re on the way (with some luck I’ll get them even tomorrow.)

Here are some new pictures, finally.

After a night sleep of about 11 hours, probably my longest sleep on this trip, Katz and I decided to go to Barnsley, a nearby town, to walk around. It’s a Saturday so a lot of people were out shopping and dining and it was nice to just hang out. We went back home and then decided to go see “Monsters vs. Aliens 3D” in the IMAX in Bradford. The movie was good but it was a bit too much because the ride back was late at night, we were tired from our day and it was very cold (even snowed a little in Bradford.)

I did find a solution to my lack of an Internet connection – I bought a USB dongle that connects me to the Internet through one of the mobile phone companies. I was really feeling lost without access to the Internet and I’m happy that I have it again.

Today was a busy day and I’m very tired again. I know these last two updates weren’t too exciting but I’m really enjoying myself and the time with Katz – it’s just like the good old days :) Good night.

After the 12 hour flight I took a series of five trains I pre-booked to Kexbrough and arrived there at around 2pm. Katz was waiting for me in the train station. I haven’t seen her in about 6 months so it was wonderful to meet her. We’re both staying at her friend’s place.

Kexbrough is in the English country side so it’s very beautiful here. It’s also pretty isolated – I couldn’t find an Internet connection because all the wireless networks around are secured and there is no coverage from the big companies (I’m writing this a day late.) It’s cold here but not too bad – between 5 and 10 degrees Celsius.

Anyway, I didn’t last long – I fell asleep at around 8pm after dozing off a few times. I couldn’t do anything meaningful, being so tired and all.

As promised, I went early to the airport and spent there most of the day. So there isn’t much to tell. I feel better than yesterday and looking forward to meeting Katz, The Prodigy’s shows and generally England.

Surprisingly enough, I have a few pictures to share (which I took out of pure boredom) from Suvarnabhumi airport today. Also note that I added pictures to yesterday’s post.

Today seemed to be going very well until I realized I was scammed. I was able to get back most of my money but lost about 100 USD. I was going to describe in length how this scam works but everything is described in this page.

Feeling thoroughly stupid I really hate this place now and happy that I have just one more day. For the rest of this day I’m going to focus on repacking for the colder England weather and tomorrow I’ll go to the airport at around noon and spend most of the day there until my flight at midnight.

UPDATE: I’m uploading just a few pictures of that day, but nothing that was part of the scam because they all look crappy to me even if they’re not. So all I’m left with are pictures of my own trip to Pantip Plaza computer shopping center.

I set out from Koh Phangan to Bangkok at around 2:00pm. 6 hours and taxi, ferry, taxi, plane and taxi later I was in my hotel in Bangkok. As usual, I immediately (after connecting to the Internet and a shower) went outside for my traditional aimless walking of the streets. It was a refreshing experience to once again roam the relatively busy streets of a big city. There’s just a lot to see. However, the entire area I’m located in is very tourist-oriented so I tried to walk the emptier streets to see if I can find some local gems. I enjoyed the walk, but saw nothing special.

Tomorrow I plan to do the following: visit the very tourist-y Grand Palace. I doubt I’ll be there longer than an hour or two. I tend to skim through those places. Then I’ll try and get myself a boat trip, which is almost 2 hours. The boat trip was recommended by some friends of mine who were here not long ago. After that I’m gonna go shopping and see if I can find a new cellphone for myself and for a friend that requested one. I guess that would be almost an entire day. In the evening I’ll try to find a place to hang out.

I noticed that I haven’t posted pictures in 11 days! Wow… I must have been busy. Not! :) Today I only have pictures from the flight itself, which was amazing because it was during sunset and the skies were full of clouds.