Month: May 2007

 This is Henry Rollins and last night I saw him do a spoken word show here in Stockholm and he was FUCKEN AWESOME MAN. So who is Rollins and why is this aging alternative icon one of my favourite people in the world? He’s 46, American and he used to be the lead singer of… Continue reading Henry Rollins

Oh cripes, I almost fell off my chair. I TOLD YOU ALL THERE WAS A STATUE OF LENIN IN TALLINN. Ok let me take you back. Id just come back from Finland, tail between my legs and I was checking out Tallinn, I walked along the waters edge to that BFO ugly soviet monument, the… Continue reading Cultural Learnings Of… I TOLD YOU THERE WAS A LENIN STATUE IN TALLINN

Ok if you logged in 2 hours ago you would have seen a different blog post here, it was long boring and full of crap. awesome. However in the meantime i found a site listing stacks and stacks of great european blogs about all kinds of stuff, so instead in here to amuse you with… Continue reading Cultural Learnings Of… Kick Ass Blogs

Remember that whacky group of kids in Germany just before the turn of the century called The Hitler Youth? What a crazy bunch! Well being the gentle statesman he is, Putin has decided to learn from this, what a fine diplomat! Heres an article in the international edition of Newsweek which is coming out soon,… Continue reading Cultural Learnings Of… The Putin Youth

Enough with the words already, I only had my camera phone this weekend, 3 nights in Tallin, 1 in Riga, 7:10am flight back to Stockholm monday morning. Love it. The islands off Stockholm, god bless you Tallink and your wonderful party boat. The park where the bronze soldier *used* to be. Someone has left a solitary… Continue reading Baltic Days

Its another weekend in old town Tallinn, Riga was pretty busy so I decided to stay here instead. The boat over was awesome, a really good party night, made a stack of new friends, including people who live in Stockholm and Tallinn, drank a boot load of grog, danced, had a good time. I also… Continue reading Ilus Tallinna

Ive been in Stockholm for a week now and what a week, lots of stuff has happened. I got into the plane to Stockholm and came straight to work, into my nice shiny, straight from a product brochure office, the "madman" Australian had landed on deck alright! Ive spent the last week hooking a bunch… Continue reading Get Some Go Again In Stockholm

So the situation in Estonia has calmed down to a certain level, everyone was asking me "oh is it dangerous in Tallinn??". No way, the riots were just one night but thats all that has really been reported on foreign news, there have still been some simmering issues but nothing major. Walking around Tallinn, many… Continue reading Happy Communist Day!

So if you know me then you know how much I love to drive, its in my nature, one of the many attributes I get from my Father no doubt. My ideal car, within a reasonable price range of course is the BMW 5 series. Its a big car, got some German class, sticks like… Continue reading Cultural Learnings Of… Bogans in BMW

So check him out, there he is, unvieled yesterday at the Tallinn War Cemetary is our old mate the Bronze Staue. See he was never going to be REmoved, just MOVED to a more appropiate location, amongst the dead of ALL countries, Estonians, Russians, Germans, even Brits lie in this site. Watching Estonian news is… Continue reading 8 Foot Tall, Dark Skinned Russian found in Tallinn