Four likely lads travel the planet

Just a quick pump up:

Melon and Hengel will be having "Goodbye, Farewell and Hey Man" drinks at the Standard Hotel on Thursday the 13th from 8pm onwards. So if you want to say bye before we jet off to meet Morto in Hong Kong, come along

G'day everyone, welcome to the site. We've set this up as a user-dispensing guide on where we guys find ourselves, what we're doing and what we think about it. Occasionally we may include what we're listening to. If we don't mention anything in this regard you can assume it's "Sussudio" by Phil Collins on repeat.

Also we'll try to keep a rough tally of culture points obtained along the way. We'll self award these and no correspondence will be entered into (i.e. if we hit the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa in the same clothes we've been wearing for a week straight the 10,000 culture points still apply with no deductions. Likewise seeing the 25er (Ruud Van Nistelrooy) on his home turf in the all-orange Dutch national colours still gets us 1000 points each no matter how many times we yell out "IT'S A TWENTY FIVER!". Wait, that last sentence made little sense to me, and probably no sense to everyone else. Sorry about that.)

Regular contributors will be Matthew Hengel, Liam Callaghan and Michael Morton. Damian Kerr will no doubt jump onboard as a guest writer when we catch up with the man further down the track in Europe.

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Well without further ado here's the plan.

April - May
China
(Melon, Hengel & Morto)

April 17 Hong Kong
April 23 Quzhou (Melon's old stomping ground)
April 26 Hangzhou
May 1 Putuoshan
May 5 Shanghai
May 9 Beijing

May
Spain
(Morto & Kerr)

Madrid, Granada, Cordoba, Seville, Barcelona

Baltic States
(Melon & Hengel)

Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Russia

June - August
Peugeot Partner Road Trip
(Morto, Melon, Kerr & Hengel)

France, Belgium, Netherlands (we are seeing the 25er live in Rotterdam), Germany (during World Cup), Czech Rep, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Croatia, Italy

Beyond that is up in the air at present. Greece and Turkey are on the cards. Also a trip to Berlin to take the fish Sven down heads up in some no limit Hold 'Em is a massive drawcard and will be done on at least one occasion.

You'll next hear from us from the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong. There our no.1 goal at this stage is to eat some huge amounts of cheap yum cha. Talk to you then.

Morto