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really
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what is it with you 2 and birds?
goodbye
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nice knowing you
once more
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we are targeted and yet escape
casualty figures in terms of cows are shamefully hushed up
try
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www.googl.co.uk
ingenious
note
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obviously i failed to link to the picture in question, and i don't care now
is it time
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to talk about 'the guestbook effect'? where is next?
yup
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"There were scenes of carnage and confusion as the blasts struck the Paharganj and Sarojini Nagar areas."
but a serious lack of cows in the picture...
ummm
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does this look familiar (look at picture)
imagine a smiley with extremely raised eyebrows
i will be so unimpressed
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if you bring bird flu home with you
Wow, do I detect
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a time of transition?
Tim Henman passes the baton (tennis racket) to Andy Murray.
Michael Palin passes the baton (dead parrot?) to Matthew Mayer.
Dead parrot! Now there's something that has a very different meaning today, to what it did when you left these shores.
Matthew
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The night train from Moscow to St Petersburg is monumentally cool... you get a packed breakfast containing (wait for it) a KitKat Chunky!
Synchronisation
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Of MP3 player and computer is a task of monumental scale. I have 14GB to transfer, have probably done about 2GB so far and am already exceptionally bored. But hey, I'll have my entire collection of music on a little white box, so who's complaining?
La belle France
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is still belle. And chaud as well, very. Is it October? Really?
Matthew
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Off to St P tomorrow night, think I will go watch the tennis. Odds on Greg Rudeski getting knocked out before I arrive? High.
Matthew
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That's a relief. Some Americans pointed out his grave (it didn't have a name)... I had a feeling he was alive too! Silly Americans.
Cowparade is in Moscow too!
while you're there
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get us a couple of t-shirts from everyone's favourite russian singer
http://shop.zemfira.ru/
i thought as much
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but wasn't going to risk looking silly
louise
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I feel I must point out that Gorbachev is not, to the best of my knowledge, dead. He visited Margaret Thatcher last week.
We are back from Florence ( where we met old friends - cow parade), Siena (v medieval) and Pisa (torre pendente).
i feel
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that chennai time should stay as a relic, as should any new time zones people might go and work in
Matthew
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1. Of course!
2. I'm not totally sure how long I spent in Mongolia (we arrived and left around midnight), probably just under 24 hours so I haven't claimed it. I definitely want to go back, Google the Nadaam Festival...
3. Have not seen Lenin yet (it requires joining a long queue in a blizzard). Saw Krushchev and Gorbachev's graves this morning.
1 thing
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I think Chennai time is becoming increasingly irrelevant.
2 things
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1: Country bagging seems to be updated far quicker for you than for us.
2: You seem to have failed to spend more than a day in Mongolia. That's a bit of a blow isn't it? Do you plan to return?
3: How's Lenin?
Matthew
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It was snowing earlier! Have bought a cheapo woolly hat, investigating prices of big furry Russian hats.
oh dear
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what is happening to crawley town fc?
theres no business
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like snow business
november in eastern europe
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what a lovely thought
Matthew
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Tiannamen Square to Red Square in 6 daYs :D
testing testing
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1 2 3
I had a dream
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That I went to visit you in China. You had (a) gone a bit strange and were (b) planning to drive home - via Delhi and a number of countries that would make a country bagger's head spin - instead of taking the trans-Mongolian. On the positive side, you had a normal head, but on the negative side there were no whaaaaaaaaaaaaaales. Why do I never dream about whaaaaaaaaaaaales?
I had a dream
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That I went to visit you in China. You had (a) gone a bit strange and were (b) planning to drive home - via Delhi and a number of countries that would make a country bagger's head spin - instead of taking the trans-Mongolian. On the positive side, you had a normal head, but on the negative side there were no whaaaaaaaaaaaaaales. Why do I never dream about whaaaaaaaaaaaales?
I had a dream
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That I went to visit you in China. You had (a) gone a bit strange and were (b) planning to drive home - via Delhi and a number of countries that would make a country bagger's head spin - instead of taking the trans-Mongolian. On the positive side, you had a normal head, but on the negative side there were no whaaaaaaaaaaaaaales. Why do I never dream about whaaaaaaaaaaaales?
jimbo
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Enjoyed going through your 365 days in Chennai.
strange but fun
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i had a dream about a giant trout eating a dead blue whale, whilst david attenborough narrated. for some reason DA had a fish's head...
if trees screamed in hungarian
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(the only language the devil respects) George Bush would cut them all down
ommmmmm
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If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
i'm very busy
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but i'll see what i can do
also
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I'm not sure the post office does deliver to weymouth. cutbacks, you know.
but then of course
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my only source of music in weymouth will be the mp3 player, and I am uncertain how I might transfer one to the other without a computer. it doesn't have a cd slot.
or
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i could send them to weymouth, i believe the post office does make the occasional delivery there
please please please
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can you send me those cds in the next week, before I go, otherwise I'll have to go without for six months - and i don't really think I'd survive that long...
Equipment Update
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The latest equipment for all you seasoned travellers. Don't let this one get away!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8706890812&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
Matthew
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Xiansheng=Mr; Hao=Happy!
I'll sort out a quality bittern for you
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Well, obviously it will be difficult to exceed the superb focus of the original, but I'll give it a go...
Birdboy?
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I'm pleased to say Weymouth is not quite on the scale of the Danube delta as a hub for migratory wildfowl. I think I might survive the experience.
So Matthew, that's WEYMOUTH, is that clear enough? I claim my Xiansheng Hao despite having no idea what it is.
Matthew
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I'm not bitterly disappointed, just bitternly disappointed.
That was worthy of Barry!
might i point out
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the minor connection between AVIAN flu and the rspB. You're going to die, birdboy
Matthew
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So what exactly are you doing? (If you answer this non-cryptically, I will look for a copy of Xiansheng Hao for you)
Matthew -
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You might gather from the previous that despite best intentions I won't be coming to Riga. It was never going to happen, but I'm sure you'll still be bitterly disappointed. Don't cry.
you're going to die
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universities are classic breeding grounds for these kind of things.
I'm going to take the fresh sea air for at least six months, so I'll be OK. I'll also miss your graduation thing, but that's hardly surprising. Just a pity I won't be in Riga for it.
tuh
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you can't trust anyone
i want a detailed guide to the politics of some nowhereville you visit
Russian Mr Men
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Please.
Matthew
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Richard - I hope you didn't want those two books you gave me back... since I swapped them for a big book about Vikings, then swapped the Viking book for 'The Life of Pi'.
If there's any book(s) you want to read, tell me so I can try to end up in London with 'War and Peace', or 'Mr Silly', or whatever...
another new gown
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the resemblance to batman continues to grow
i'm ill
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i blame freshers. My world consists largely of pain
I'm ill
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I blame india. It hurts.
so it seems
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i'm rowing again. it hurts
doctoral training centre
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the matthew likeness is remote
Remind me
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what does dtc stand for?
Buuuulgariiiiiia
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Does she look like Matthew or is it just the cheap t-shirt that gives that impression?
dtc group photo
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http://www.fantasyfacup.com/matthew/gallery/richard/dtcgroup
Matthew
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New photos up; and country-bagging updated...
clearly
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you went close enough to kashmir. I feel a little sorry for the chinese - what will happen next? My bet is that 18,000 dead in kashmir will receive a lot less news time than 1000 dead in Louisiana.
Matthew
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In my defence, I haven't been to New Orleans or Kashmir recently. So I don't necessarily cause ALL disasters!
Now back in Chengdu resting my thighs... night train to Xi'an tomorrow.
To whom it may concern
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The many excitements of my diary from India are now online, complete with a picture a day. If you haven't seen enough of our holiday already, go to http://indiadiary.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/India_diary.htm for the full story.
Matthew - I'm sure you'd be happy to have this on your website but we can sort it out when you get back.
what is it with you matthew?
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why do these major disasters always turn up after you've been through
Sore thighs
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Although we don't condescend to ride on things as small as horses.
Matthew
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Pandas were good (they stereotypically spent the whole time eating bamboo)
Now in Songpan, preparing to go on a four-day horse trek. Saddle up!
mum
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Go and see the pandas!
Come home!
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Save yourself!
Matthew
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"Shortly afterwards two bombs went off in open-air seafood restaurants on Jimbaran beach"
I ate in one of those restuarants... :S
raised eyebrows
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matthew narrowly avoids death in Asia again
no
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year below
join the (exclusive) club
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who is lydia tanner? older than us?
Matthew
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Well I finally made it to Chengdu after an epic 43 hour train journey (good practice for the Trans-Siberian). Ye's flat is pretty tiny (everyone lives in identical little Communist boxes!) so I wouldn't really have fit! Internet cafes are quite hard to find in China, so don't expect overly frequent updates. Panda hunting tomorrow!