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2016 – In review

I really don’t know where to begin with my review of 2016. To a lot of people this year has been terrible, what with all the deaths of famous people they don’t personally know and political events that probably wont significantly change anything. For me this year has been a watershed moment where I proved to myself what I was capable of, lost some friends to death and one of my most meaningful relationships to time. I traveled to more countries in the last half of they year then I have in the last 10 years of my life and…

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Ozora

Of all the stops on my festival Odyssey Ozora was the one I was least looking forward to. 8 days of militant psy-trance – a genre that I have never been a fan of and that I was going to have to tolerate entirely alone. I very nearly considered bailing on the whole thing. It was the first festival since my 2 and a half-week break and in that time I was taking great pleasure in wondering around foreign cities aimlessly, making new friends in hostels and trying and failing to chat up a series of Parisian women. All this…

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Poland to Portugal

I did a good job at not letting the panic set in, although when I think back it was probably the fatigue of next to no sleep and the comedown and hangover of the night before that had depleted my desires to give a fuck. I sent out a few texts to people back at the house about my lost bank card. All I really needed was the security digits on the back and I’d be set to top up my now empty Travelex card, failing that I also had Al on the line, who gave me his card details…

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