Comments for Backpack Storybook http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com A travel journal Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:13:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Weekend in Brussels by Return to Brussels, again « Backpack Storybook http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/weekend-in-brussels/#comment-154 Return to Brussels, again « Backpack Storybook Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:13:46 +0000 http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/?p=262#comment-154 [...] Belgium – For a city Idon’t have much time for, I seem to be here an awful [...] [...] Belgium – For a city Idon’t have much time for, I seem to be here an awful [...]

]]> Comment on Return to Brussels by Return to Brussels, again « Backpack Storybook http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/return-to-brussels/#comment-153 Return to Brussels, again « Backpack Storybook Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:11:55 +0000 http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/?p=725#comment-153 [...] Brussels, Belgium – For a city Idon’t have much time for, I seem to be here an awful lot. [...] [...] Brussels, Belgium – For a city Idon’t have much time for, I seem to be here an awful lot. [...]

]]> Comment on Line-ups photo album by Max Blight http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/line-ups-photo-album/#comment-152 Max Blight Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:18:41 +0000 http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/?p=881#comment-152 Good read on your recent R&R Rhys in doing something you like of course ! Did I detect darkish sand on the beaches, which reminds us of 13 days in Bali, having just returned ! Unfortunately for an oldie surfer, the waves were a little dumperish which churned up the volcanic sand & few waves that one could trust! For me anyway! However it was a great R&R for us, your Mum & others that went or were there with us ! Having made this same trip for near on 30 years now, the only things that has changed is the bigger influx of Aussies now including the usual very untidy yobbos which can spoil the place, but that's life anywhere overseas for the uneducated, but have returned in one piece, even after each of us having a fall here and there, with those roads & so called footpaths & high curbs that attack us ancient people! But we keep on going back, with a flight that only takes 3 & 1/2 hours anyway, before having our first frosty Bintang Beer & a surf if it pleases you? The summer is almost in here Rhys with a couple of days @ 32 & 34o already, so, look out local waves here soon ! Keep it neat... The grandies, Max & Barb...(Mandurah( via Perth.....West Oz, down under! Good read on your recent R&R Rhys in doing something you like of course ! Did I detect darkish sand on the beaches, which reminds us of 13 days in Bali, having just returned ! Unfortunately for an oldie surfer, the waves were a little dumperish which churned up the volcanic sand & few waves that one could trust! For me anyway!

However it was a great R&R for us, your Mum & others that went or were there with us ! Having made this same trip for near on 30 years now, the only things that has changed is the bigger influx of Aussies now including the usual very untidy yobbos which can spoil the place, but that’s life anywhere overseas for the uneducated, but have returned in one piece, even after each of us having a fall here and there, with those roads & so called footpaths & high curbs that attack us ancient people! But we keep on going back, with a flight that only takes 3 & 1/2 hours anyway, before having our first frosty Bintang Beer & a surf if it pleases you?
The summer is almost in here Rhys with a couple of days @ 32 & 34o already, so, look out local waves here soon ! Keep it neat…
The grandies, Max & Barb…(Mandurah( via Perth…..West Oz, down under!

]]> Comment on Line-ups photo album by bk http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/line-ups-photo-album/#comment-151 bk Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:22:25 +0000 http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/?p=881#comment-151 nice one, rhys! does me good to see those warm water beachies while i'm working in amid chilly wind in semi-darkness at 6pm trying to get the yacht moving. and surfing in boardies, in europe, in late october? tres cool... nice one, rhys!

does me good to see those warm water beachies while i’m working in amid chilly wind in semi-darkness at 6pm trying to get the yacht moving.

and surfing in boardies, in europe, in late october?

tres cool…

]]> Comment on French beachbreaks by Max Blight http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/french-beachbreaks/#comment-149 Max Blight Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:34:03 +0000 http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/?p=802#comment-149 Good to see you hanging 5 once again Rhys! I suppose you do miss the Oz big waves & white sandy beaches here? However make the best where ever you can find it aye? Fancy having waves in France? Wonders will never cease! Cheers, ex wave catcher ....Yah "Pop" still in West Oz! Good to see you hanging 5 once again Rhys!

I suppose you do miss the Oz big waves & white sandy beaches here?

However make the best where ever you can find it aye?
Fancy having waves in France? Wonders will never cease!

Cheers, ex wave catcher ….Yah “Pop” still in West Oz!

]]> Comment on Quiksilver Pro by Max Blight http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/quiksilver-pro/#comment-148 Max Blight Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:13:07 +0000 http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/?p=798#comment-148 Great to know you have broken the non surfing boredom, working in London for a while Rhys & fancy discovering waves.....if you call them that on the coast of France? Wonders will never cease aye! I thought Oz was the only place worthy of running a surfing comp with appropriate waves? Then again I am an old brigade surfer before travelling by plane overseas to find surf became popular also! One can always learn aye ? Keep up the exploring until you get back down under again, there is still plenty of big ones out the back here Mate ! Regards old surfer "Pop B" Great to know you have broken the non surfing boredom, working in London for a while Rhys & fancy discovering waves…..if you call them that on the coast of France? Wonders will never cease aye!
I thought Oz was the only place worthy of running a surfing comp with appropriate waves? Then again I am an old brigade surfer before travelling by plane overseas to find surf became popular also! One can always learn aye ? Keep up the exploring until you get back down under again, there is still plenty of big ones out the back here Mate ! Regards old surfer “Pop B”

]]> Comment on By the seaside by Max Blight http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/by-the-seaside/#comment-145 Max Blight Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:04:11 +0000 http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/?p=783#comment-145 Rhys, your visit to Cornwall was very interesting, but did you catch a wave down there? As you may know my early ancestors came from there, don't know if they were tin miners or not, but first settled in Ballarat a gold rush mining town in Victoria, Oz in the mid 1800's.then turned to West Aust at the turn of the century and with a name like "Blight," everybody here knew where they cam from aye "Blighty of course!" Barb & I visited Cornwall in 1977 & actually stayed right at the very most southern tip overlooking the ocean & the only room available was in an attic, where we watched passing ships at night only spitting distance away from shore, quite eerie & were told later that the top room we had slept in was haunted? We actually lived to tell the tale & then traveled north to Newcastle where we visited my wife's father's place of birth a Geordie..........so, she must also be one of those Northerners? Although she was born in a better place, Perth West Australia, likewise myself, where there is at least good surf and pure white sand at our beaches, as you know ! Cheers & have fun........From your kin, "The Old Blighters," down under. Max & Barb Blight Rhys, your visit to Cornwall was very interesting, but did you catch a wave down there? As you may know my early ancestors came from there, don’t know if they were tin miners or not, but first settled in Ballarat a gold rush mining town in Victoria, Oz in the mid 1800’s.then turned to West Aust at the turn of the century and with a name like “Blight,” everybody here knew where they cam from aye “Blighty of course!”

Barb & I visited Cornwall in 1977 & actually stayed right at the very most southern tip overlooking the ocean & the only room available was in an attic, where we watched passing ships at night only spitting distance away from shore, quite eerie & were told later that the top room we had slept in was haunted?

We actually lived to tell the tale & then traveled north to Newcastle where we visited my wife’s father’s place of birth a Geordie……….so, she must also be one of those Northerners? Although she was born in a better place, Perth West Australia, likewise myself, where there is at least good surf and pure white sand at our beaches, as you know ! Cheers & have fun……..From your kin, “The Old Blighters,” down under. Max & Barb Blight

]]> Comment on By the seaside by Leanne http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/by-the-seaside/#comment-143 Leanne Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:26:24 +0000 http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/?p=783#comment-143 A northern invasion in Cornwall? I'm told they've all moved to the northern suburbs of Perth? A northern invasion in Cornwall? I’m told they’ve all moved to the northern suburbs of Perth?

]]> Comment on By the seaside by Meesha http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/by-the-seaside/#comment-142 Meesha Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:56:06 +0000 http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/?p=783#comment-142 Classic! Classic!

]]> Comment on Notes from Spain (Part Four) by By the seaside « Backpack Storybook http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/notes-from-spain-part-four/#comment-141 By the seaside « Backpack Storybook Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:05:34 +0000 http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/?p=769#comment-141 [...] recently my answer was no. Instead I’ve surfed Moroc, Portugal and Spain. It hasn’t done much for my carbon footprint, but its certainly helped my wave [...] [...] recently my answer was no. Instead I’ve surfed Moroc, Portugal and Spain. It hasn’t done much for my carbon footprint, but its certainly helped my wave [...]

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