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Carbon fibre stuff is awesome. Not only does it look cool, but it’s an incredibly light and strong material. Which is why it is used on race cars and jet fighters.

One Crazy Ride is a independent documentary film, chronicling a motorcycle expedition on uncharted roads across the Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh, situated in North-east India. A film on friendship, camaraderie and the “never say die” attitude of five motorcyclists in the face of unforgiving terrain. It’s a follow up to their award winning film [...]

Google earth is amazing. Honestly, why bother travelling anymore? Especially when you can find crazy weird stuff like this. Oh and it’s worth updgrading to the latest version of Google Earth – the 3D is pretty impressive. They’ve even mapped out some major cities in 3D. Go to GoogleSightSeeing for more fun stuff. More videos [...]

Photo Tinkatonka While doing research for an upcoming Berlin escapade I stumbled across Ostel – a GDR themed Hostel in the heart of East Berlin. An apartment building that screams classic inspirational Eastern bloc architecture has been refurbished to recreate a communist workers holiday experience for the pampered capitalist youth who decides to indulge in [...]

SouthCentral (PART 3 of 4) from ABOVE on Vimeo. Those of you who’ve been paying attention would remember our last post on Above (catch up here). Well the South Central Tour continues and so do the pieces. Check out his latest vid above, complete with funky bossa nova/samba/Latin sounding tunes. Some pretty cool tidbits, look [...]

With the tagline “Ideas to live by” this self styled “Cultural enterprise” offers an interesting range of services including: evening and weekend courses, holidays to unexpected locations, stigma-free psychotherapy, secular sermons, conversation meals, a floating faculty of experts and a new kind of literary consultancy service called bibliotherapy. The school operates out of what looks [...]

AirBed&Breakfast is a new site that gets all Web2.0 on the Hostel and Hotel trade. Basically its a paid version of couch-surfing – people offer a spare room/mattress on the floor/kennel all over the world for a nominal or astronomical fee, depending on their commitment to capitalism. Essentially the idea is to provide a viable [...]

I’ve been on a bit of web tools frenzy as of late, I don’t know why but people keep sending me online tools designed to organise your life. It could have something to do with my shambolic excuse for a memory or the fact I pretty much live my life completely online, though given how [...]

Not quite as uplifting.

European hotel chain Suitehotel are running the suitejump competition on their blog. They’re encouraging customers to take a photo of themselves jumping on the bed. The best entries will receive an unspecified reward (i’m guessing something like a free hotel room???). Fits in nicely with the trend of sharing jumping photos via social media. If [...]

Japan is a travel destination, that I pretty much visit yearly. Yes it really is the wonderful magical land of joy and splendour everyone has told you about. There is a common myth that Japan is an very expensive destination, and well compared to the rest of Asia it kinda is, but compared to other [...]