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shiiit, wish i'd discovered this sooner. im been housed up squatting in london for the past few months but been here so long im ready for a change. i have a good bit of experience building and doing permaculture type stuff, might well come down and visit you once i quit my job in a few weeks

That was amazing, thank you so much for the intelligence. You've helped me so much. Since my last message things have changed and it looks like i might not be moving to brighton for a few more months :( but i will still be going down to visit nearly every weekend as some of my best mates live...

http://www.freshmess.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Jofama-Retro-Man.jpg This is kinda like the one i got cept mine is all black rather than black and white. basically same as a biker jacket just made of sheepskin instead of leather. i must admit i punked mine up a little bit with some patches...

can't go wrong with a well-fitting sheepskin flying jacket, like the kind spitfire pilots wore in WW2. I got myself a really really nice black one from a market for £35, and I have never once been cold as long as i've had that jacket. And I hiked all through the narly weather of the Scottish...

This isn't really a coat, but a 100% wool RAF pullover is ridiculously warm for how small and light it is. Good for working in the freezing cold, stays warm when wet and isn't too bulky at all so you can wear a big jacket over it

Yes actually your collaboration would be much appreciated! The couple of friends I have in Brighton are kinda trustafarians. They work in computers or go to uni and pay rent in houseshares and actually buy their food from shops. Are there any cool housing co-ops/social centers or something I...

not paying taxes would be a good step forward :cool:

I read in the paper that the people down in the commercial part of the building were allowed to stay? Thats cool ur hometown is Brighton, im probably going to move there next week with a mate. Either that or Bristol. I'm just so burned out from London

yes its only for residential buildings, yes its all complete bullshit, yes people are going to be kicked out onto the streets, and yes they are going to start enforcing from day one. The police have already said to some friends' squats that they will evict them this morning. Protest at 1pm...

cool lets go dude! i got family there as well

Yeah I would really like to go to Scandinavia. I got friends and family in Norway and a friend or 2 in Sweden. Maybe wwoofing or something? Also plan on going to Germany at some point

when you get back to london, we should meet up because i was planning on getting back out to travel around europe and could do with a travel buddy

Thats cool yeah Bristol is rad I got a lot of friends up there. Ash Victim that sounds so cool, your busking adventure idea sounds great and I would love to be your partner on that but I think the horrible truth is that you need a female partner. 2 boys hitching in England fucking sucks. Me...

It seems us English people love to complain about where we live and never leave or do anything about it. I was getting fucking sick of London so I hit the road 2 months ago and things have just kept getting better. Travelled all over Europe for free but it was really fuckin hard as you cant...

Ever find yourself in a situation where someone wants to buy you a coffee from some yuppie place like starbucks and it's kinda rude to say no? Or they give you a gift card or whatever. Whatever you want, order an espresso. Then ask for a large cup full of ice. Then walk over to the place with...

whats so cool about liepzig?

mulberries are the shit. I've heard that if you eat them when they're not yet ripe, they can make you hallucinate. I remember late last summer i saw 2 wood pigeons fall out of a mulberry tree and stumble around because they'd gotten drunk eating the rotten berries, and their feathers were all...

This is some bARTWORK I made for my band.

such a simple solution man! The Turks and the Arabs have this shit down. all you need is a small metal pot, and its great because you can use it for other shit besides coffee, which is essential when you're living off your backpack. Just get the coffee ground as fine as possible, you want that...

I will be in Portugal at the beginning of August for Boom festival. Afterwards, I have no plans so was thinking it might be quite cool to check out the Basque region with all these legendary abandoned villages I keep hearing about

England for sure. Don't ever hitch in England :eek: Scotland's cool for hitching though.

ah, ok. Yeah intermodals are those big corrugated metal shipping containers. Try clinging onto the back of one of those at 75 mph lol!

Let me know any progress you make freight hopping in europe. not sure bout the continent but here in the British Isles it looks like a nightmare to me. All I see are intermodals mostly :( ..there must be some way.

good god i just discovered the bit where he sticks the tv remote up his bum bum. he doesn't even take off his boxers.

wow i just watched that video for the first time. What a beautiful piece of film work this young man has created. I am quite disturbed by it. Reminds me a lot of my ex lol

haha thats so cool thanks for the info! Let me know if you go to boom, im working there this year. There is very little fencing at boom, just get a little inflatable boat, or put ur pack in a bin bag and swim (if you're quite fit), across the lake. at dawn or dusk would be best. Yeah in...

I've been wondering, is it easy to faredodge on french trains? its not easy at all in England

Cool, Dingle is gorgeous. I saw 7 rainbows in a day there. Zoe are you going to Boom festival by any chance? I have tickets so I'm tempted to hitch down from London and maybe hang out at ZAD for a little while before Boom starts. Maybe on the way back too.

Yes! Boom is not a punk festival at all but there are a lot of punks/diy-types/like minded people there. I went 2 summers ago and this year they've given me a free ticket, food, and transport to give a lecture there this year about cooperative houses. Last time I went I had the time of my...

Here in the UK my uncle has a few guns (he is a farmer), and my dad's friend here in London has a couple of really fancy shotguns and loads of ammo (he likes to skeet shoot). And the UK is said to have the strictest gun laws. You can have guns here but it's mainly just for farmers and target...

So many people confused about what is the right way. I say rather than speculating about pagan inspired rituals and doing acid, give a damn, -do the actual research about where you come from. You are only the current chapter in a very long book. For me, I look back to the way my ancestors did...

reminds me of the ending of Easy Rider

I'm sure there's a good chance you're not a douche bag, man. Sometimes it's just really difficult to make friends when you're in a completely foreign land on your own and especially if you don't speak the language. My advice would be to look for the people who are probably rejected by society...

That sounds rad. How you getting there from Ireland? I would be so up for heading down there seeing as the olympics are coming to London SOON and I need to get the fuck out of here before its completely overrun with vile yuppie tourists. Also I love forest defense and I need to brush up on my...

and now for the only joke I have ever heard about America: what's the difference between America and milk? Give milk long enough and it develops a culture

How did the Greeks separate the men from the boys? With a crow bar

I wish crusty travellers would take more inspiration from the gypsies. Proper Romani gypsies are completely obsessed with hygeine. They have strict rules and rituals they undergo in order to stay clean and enforce their personal hygeine. This is the whole origin of why Europeans think gypsies...

learn to use a saddle stitch, its genius. all it takes is thread and not 1, but 2 needles

nah i actually never used to hang out there until the later of my eugene days. fishin with dodds. i do like to biddy the old huts now and again.

Fuck yes! I love it when that happens. lol like they think they're gonna scare the shit out of you that you wouldn't dare run away. Great story

There's also some epic surf spots right there too, if you don't mind hiking through a mile of old growth forest carrying a surfboard.

Landpirate: im so thrilled to hear that im not completely alone on this island. yeah i have a lot of friends at uni in brighton although i think they'll be back in london soon as they're done with exams but anyway yeah im still sorting out my summer plans. There's a 50:50 chance that after Boom...

Ok, so when you find a festival you want to go to, go on the website and look for the "contact us" link, and then there is usually a link for "stewards", click that and it will take you to a third party website, for example Oxfam, or "greenstewards". For boomtown, it will take you to oxfam and...

thats pretty rare. Christians actually doing something "christian"

I heard about that girl. She tried to jump on a box car that was already moving pretty fast. I would never jump a moving box car. some people do.

ok. i guess i don't really see it as "burden". i think if guys are sexist then they should have a burden but i dont think i should inherently have to tread on eggshells and be an overly-PC liberal swine. I dont owe anyone shit, and they don't owe me anything either. I will live my life and say...

boat! i never thought of that! genius!

I used the brain and egg method on a deer i hit with my car a few years ago, it worked beautifully. It's amazing how you get such a far superior leather by brain tanning than you do using the modern commerical methods (which are also terrible for the environment)

dude seriously check out Boom festival this summer, its in the middle of the desert on the Spanish border, 10 days. Its kinda like a really fuckin well organized rainbow gathering that you have to pay for. but prices are reasonable and you can always try n find work there or sneak in

yep i'd definitely say the uk is a police state but the one good thing is it's really not "got its shit together" in the sense that the usa is, like how USA cops have a real military sort of vibe to them. Like at protests in the UK its common for police to get outnumbered, and during the riots...