Pub crawl and gig with the town band in the days before Christmas, and pictures from the holiday period itself. Fun fun fun.

My first holiday from the new job, and Sheffield is the perfect destination for a long weekend break. Thank you everyone who was around and gave me a warm welcome in the bitter cold...

Chilling on the rock, trying not to become part of the scenery.

They're apples! It's madness! It's Apple Madness!

A bit of the October skeet - the Manx goings-on.

Starting a new job at Lloyds TSB, having HC guest Teppo round for a bit, and aggravating a football injury just a bit further.

I was bored.

Last day of the holiday! Killing a few hours in Liverpool with Juste and friends. Thanks to everyone I met during the last three weeks, it was great :).

Final day in Germany, relaxing in Cologne and enjoying HC company.

A short daytrip to Wiesbaden, to look around the place and look at rooms to rent. Dunno if I was impressed, but it was a fun day.

Visiting friends and having fun in the schöne Stadt am Main. I can't remember the last time I went on holiday and didn't visit Frankfurt. Somehow it always works out this way.

By now I had a flight booked from Cologne, so going to Munich was a large detour for me. Was it worth the trip? Still not sure. But at least now I've visited Bavaria.

I mainly wanted to go to Thüringen, or if not, then to Prague, maybe Frankfurt-Main or even Freiburg-Breisgau... but ended up visiting Asia in Dresden. In contrast to the rest of the holiday, I had lots of time alone here. It wasn't so bad though, because Dresden is special.

After Klöden I didn't know where I was heading off to. But after taking an opportunity that I couldn't miss, I found myself in Leipzig surrounded by HC members for a couple of days. But where next?

Klöden... an unforgettable 4-day festival of eating, drinking, dancing, camping, football, frisbee, skinny-dipping, cooking, playing music, seeing many old faces again and meeting many new ones. I'm glad it's unforgettable, because almost all photos were deleted from my phone! This is a great shame, they were fantastic photos and I was looking forward to sharing them...

Got a cheap flight to Germany, and hitchhiked to Floh's place in Traben-Trarbach. Beautiful scenery, amazing wine and a great guided tour around all the secret spots.

Three nights with Paluch and the crew at the Merchant Freaks' shack in Galway. We also did some hitchhiking along the south coast, and enjoyed the crack in Galway, Ennis, Limerick, even Lisdoonvarna. Many pints of Guinness were hurt during the making of these galleries.

A Grand Day Out at the Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire, being entertained with music of all styles and people of all shapes.

After getting a job in mid-August with the start date in mid-September, I bought a one-way ticket to Ireland and started off on another adventure, destination uncertain. Last taste of freedom this year?

There's a party down Onchan way.

BA (Hons) German with Dutch. :).

A round-up of the last six weeks of uni. Visiting Lena in Birmingham, celebrating end of exams with D-Deck, sorting out the Sheffield entry for a hitchhiking website, and saying farewell to uni life...

Us winning the Sauerkraut Cup football competition for Sheffield, HC guest Lukas coming to stay, and getting rid of Mark's door handles.

The last part of the Easter travels, and it was in Leiden! This is the second time I've visited. Apologies to Mojca, Kelly and Sam for not letting you know sooner. And thanks to HC host Paulina for a weekend I won't forget in a long time :).

Sixth time in Frankfurt since moving away... after two nights staying with HC host Maike and a night at Claudia and Markus' place, I tried to leave. But couldn't. So Suse picked me up and I spent the rest of the day having a barbecue and fluking poker wins. Life's good. Thanks once again everyone!

A great break in Hungary with HC host Edina. Got a good rest and enough time to check out the whole city (and there's a lot of it). And got another reason to go to Viljandi this year :).

Photos taken in Belgrade with Maja, Dragana and Ognjen for a few days, whilst deciding what to do with myself over the following two weeks.

BELGRADE! At last we made it, and collapsed on our beds in the Hotel Srbija for several hours. After waking up, eating and partying the night away, everyone said their goodbyes and went their seperate ways. For me, the adventure was nowhere near over...

Got quickly to Slovakia! And got dropped off on the wrong motorway, facing in the wrong direction, in the wrong part of Bratislava. With one day to go, and with few options left, we opted for last-minute Eurolines tickets and stocked up on drinks for the overnight trip to Belgrade...

Made it to Prague! Two nights of debauchery and two days of hangovers. Then more travelling, but it didn't go so well and we made it as far as a sleepy village somewhere south of Brno, on a Sunday night. Somehow we got ourselves into Brno centre, and rented one of the dirtiest hostel rooms I've ever slept in. At least it was a roof for the night, and we set off early the next morning for Slovakia...

Over the next two days our progress in the Bummit race was not so great - after finding Jennie on Hospitality Club and staying at night at her place in Cologne, we got stuck. Smelly, stressed, and sleep-deprived, eventually we made it as far as Frankfurt, where we spent the next night wandering around pathetically. After that our luck picked up - we made it swiftly to Nuremberg, and across the Czech border...

Day 2 of Bummit, and after grinding slowly to a halt near Maastricht we get cautioned by the Dutch police. Only one way out of the dilemma - to try and hitchhike trains...

Made it through France into Belgium and as far as Antwerp on the first night of the Bummit race, and found Gwen through Hospitality Club to put us up for the night, and get us acquainted with delicious Belgian beer. Next morning we woke up on her sofa, packed our bags and headed east...

On 'Bummit' - http://www.bummit.co.uk - a race with nearly 300 Sheffield Uni students to Belgrade, in any way possible with a tiny budget. Full of hope and optimism, our team of Tom, Hayley and I set off for Dover, to France and beyond...

Various pictures of the main part of our very own ball. Includes two very special guests of honour.

A gangsters and gun molls party. No idea how it got so late...

The 2nd meeting of the Sheffield Laboratory of Experimental Travel takes place on the streets of Sheffield, where eight student tourists use street maps of Paris to take a guided tour of famous "Parisian" landmarks. Starting with the Eiffel Tower (Arts Tower) we are plunged into one of Sheffield's dilapidated industrial districts, home to such French national treasures as the Notre Dame cathedral, the Louvre, and the Arc de Triomphe.

More Bummit frolics, this time a Cowboys (trip 1) vs. Indians (trip 2) merry gadabout at the Walkabout.

An Experimental Travel game. Go to your favourite pub and order your favourite drink. Ask the barperson where their favourite pub is and what they drink there. Go there and order their recommended drink, and then repeat the exercise with whoever serves you, and so on. Note: participants would be well advised not to attempt this experiment on an empty stomach, nor to repeat it ad nauseam.

I've been promising Suse that I'd visit her in Southampton for ages. Finally I made the trip down - yeah, it was in time for her farewell party but at least I made it and spent three days being treated like royalty, funfunfun. Cheers!

A small selection of pranks. We've got to pass the time somehow.