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Travel // Jim // 1st April 2008

Well, it' nearly time to set off for the Coyote Rally jaunt. I've set up a blog for anyone interested in up-to-the-minute Al-Jazeera style reportage on how things are going - quite probably including fundamentalist politics, regime change and improvised explosive devices.

Each member of the team is preparing for the trial ahead in their own meditative, spiritual way. Nick and Ray are spending quality time with their respective ladies and I, err, well I'm writing this.

You can follow our voyage of discovery at: http://nickjimrayinarover.blogspot.com/.

oh yes I know about putting newspaper on cars

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Being in New York: Part One

Travel // Jim // 28th March 2008

barman, another martini if you please

An account of my initial assault on the island of Manhattan, a bit like the monster out of Cloverfield but with a dodgy leather jacket and a lot more gin involved.

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Coyote Rally Update

Travel // Jim // 19th March 2008

You may well be aware that we will be driving around Europe in the near future as part of the Coyote Rally. The route takes in Paris, Munich, Prague, Amsterdam and probably some of the continent's most scenic lay-bys and prison cells.

The rules state that we can't spend more than 500 notes on our car - so far we have purchased one wheel (for a fiver off a bloke in the pub) which Nick has been rolling up and down the street like some kind of tartrizined up eight year old.

The rest of the car should be following shortly - and could possibly be a bit like a burgundy mid-90's rover...

Oh yeah, we are also hoping that you will all sponsor us in aid of the Alzheimers Society - a worthy cause I'm sure you will all agree. So get yourselves over to http://www.justgiving.com/nickjimrayinarover and cut loose with the spare change.

Yes, well done Nick

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Going To New York

Travel // Jim // 5th February 2008

If you don’t want to read about me being sweaty and useless on a plane you may want to skip to the forthcoming Being In New York post. But if you fancy a laugh at my expense…

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Coyote Rally: The Prologue

Travel // Nick // 31st October 2007

And so it begins… Finally a reason to learn how to say “Help me, please help me” in at least four languages.

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paper-jam does Japan

Travel // Nick // 25th March 2007

Some of us spend our leisure time being drunkenly morose followed by sullenly hungover and trying to remember why the rug in the lounge is damp. Nick prefers to waste his time on jetting off to Japan, having cocktails with Ben Affleck and procuring a £20 quid “Peak Of Joy”. What a waster, eh?

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Travelling Woes, Hints and Tips

Travel // Nick // 30th July 2006

paper-jam’s answer to Alan Whicker give us the lowdown on getting in and out of the USA in as stress-free a manner as possible. Get the feeling he may have got stuck in a queue or two in the past.

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St Patricks's day in Boston - Part 2

Travel // Nick // 4th April 2006

Nick is now actually in Australia. Crikey. However he was kind enough to let us have his recollections of doing the Boston parade in a pink tutu. He’s not gay but he is reasonably proud.

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St Patricks's day in Boston - Part 1

Travel // Nick // 21st March 2006

Our resident jetsetter is up for the craic and enjoying a pint of the black stuff. Except instead of knocking around the Star & Garter he’s in bleedin’ Boston. Part 2 has yet to arrive, hope he is OK…

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Letter from 12,000 feet above New Zealand

Travel // Vanessa // 11th January 2004

Doesn't even look that scared. Blimey.

A fresh missive from the girl for who every day is another leap into adventure - another chance to laugh at death, danger and destruction. A bit like John Noakes or that one that did the marathon.

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