OK so much for the writing something every day bit – our typical routine here is wake up, have breakfast, head out & slide down the side of a mountain somewhere, come back, have a nice cold Austrian lager or 3, go for dinner, come back, flake out. Rinse & repeat. As you can see,…

In order to make up for not having written anything much about last year's trip to Solden, the fact that there's a WiFi connection here in Kaprun means I can attempt to do an in situ day-by-day update on the snowboarding trip. Lucky, eh ? We've just pulled up after a fairly horrid trip over…

Right, well that's me away to the snow then ! A bunch of us are off to Kaprun, in Austria, for a week of gravity-fed snow+plank related adventures, and hopefully this year I'll get around to blogging about it. As Richie pointed out yesterday, there's a website called Metcheck which does all kinds of funky…

The blustery wind continues today, although possibly stronger today. There's some really knackered looking pigeons huddling on our window ledge up here on the 21st floor. The place where I work has a new sort of mall-thing down the bottom – all new steel & marble & glass stuff, to contrast our fairly dirty 1963-built…

I know, I know. In an effort to cure the recent blogstipation, I give you Part 1 of the fantastic tale of the trip from Shimla to Delhi to Agra. In October. Only a complete arsewit would decide, “Hmm, 5 hours from Delhi to Agra, 5 hours back – I've got 14 hours. I think…

Really bloody windy today. It was like everyone had decided to do that mime thing where they pretend to walk into the wind. Except there was actual wind. And loads more swearing. Perhaps that bit was just me though.

…but yesterday that well known organ of all that's newsworthy – The Sun – did a story on the World's Most Expensive Train Journey. Not that anyone in their right mind would ever do this trip in this manner, but still – as Lester Haines of The Register pointed out, mile-for-mile it would be cheaper…

World first – a New Year's Day that didn't include a hangover ! OK, that doesn't count the year I was working breakfast radio with Eldo at the girl guide camp, but then there wasn't exactly hard core booze-like-it's-the-last-day-of-the-year action going on there, either. The evening's festivities were provided by the highly excellent Polli (should…

The crew of the Big Brother House on their way out to guide in the New Year. Except for James, who's in Austria (schnitzels, not kangaroos) and Emma, who's in Bedford. Oh and me, who's not ready yet. Best not put dinner on for another minute or 10 Brian… Hope everyone had a good one,…

I was in one of the local supermarkets last night and spotted my first celebrity. By that, I mean it's the first time I've spotted one by myself, rather than having someone else point them out, and me look over and go “oh yeah”. Not that spotting slebs is a particularly rare event around here,…