Month: June 2020

Camionetta de Pollos – Chicken Buses

ByDavid Roberts June 30, 2020 1 Comment
Typed on Gionny’s increasingly irritating Olivetti Lettera 22 Travelling for us riff raff I think it’s safe to assume that the majority of our readers have at some stage, while travelling, taken a bus. Of course this doesn’t apply if you’re one of those rich bastards who are travelling everywhere first class and taking limos from the airport to a 5 star hotel. Actually, that’s a...

My fear of flying – Leave the skies to the birds

ByGionny June 23, 2020 1 Comment
My fear of flying on a man-made bird has never prevented me from travelling the world, but it has always been with me, keeping me on my toes each time I fasten a seatbelt in an aircraft seat.  Let’s face it, often what we (humans) carefully engineer, can catastrophically fail and become a statistic… Call me a Wussbag, but there must be a reason why they serve booze on board airliners....

People, otherwise known as wimps, pimps and banjo players.

ByDavid Roberts June 16, 2020 0 Comments
Typed on Gianni’s goddam bloody Olivetti Lettera 22 How DO you judge people? While travelling through the minefield of life we are blessed to meet some truly amazingly wonderful folk. We are also cursed to meet some dishonest, disloyal and disrespectful people not to mention encountering hostile, hypocritical and humourless riffraff. In summary, lowlife assholes. As colourfully portrayed in...

Tips for Seamless and effortless travel

ByDavid Roberts June 9, 2020 0 Comments
Typed on Gionny’s bloody Olivetti Lettera 22 Be it Europe, Africa or the Americas travel is fun. Fun interspersed with really annoying challenges, quirks and irritations. None more so than when crossing frontiers. One of those foibles is meeting mini dictators who have the power to decide your future. I refer to border guards. After years of studying this phenomenon I think I have finally...