By Captain Oats, on 10th July, 2009
Maybe not the WORST, we haven’t been to them all – that would be retarded/unfeasible but this one is pretty shit, as well as being indisputable PROOF that monopolies are EVIL, as it’s the only hostel in Harbin – Northern China. So the ‘good’ news is that if you’re planning to go there on [...]
By Captain Oats, on 24th March, 2009
One cat, one bloody cat – ‘City of Cats’… yeah, city of one cat… But I’m not bitter.
That cat wasn’t even a good cat, as cats go it was pretty shit. As was the cat ‘monument’ located on a roundabout in the middle of town.
Looks like these anatomically incorrect cats were lifted from the Blackpool illuminations [...]
By Captain Oats, on 11th March, 2009
I attended the TNT Travel show here in London this weekend; by all accounts a pretty drab and predictable event with booth after booth of crappy keyrings and email spam schemes poorly disguised as ‘competitions’. However, there was one ray of ill humoured sunshine when an enthusiastic Welshman thrust a gem of a free guidebook into [...]
By Captain Oats, on 11th February, 2009
I was settling down for an afternoons drinking in an unremarkable bar on the sweaty tourist hellworld of Khao San Road, Bangkok, when I met the most travel-beaten individual I encountered during my long trip.
This shell of a man hobbled towards me, accompanied by my friend who had met him weeks earlier [...]
By Captain Oats, on 31st December, 2008
Looking through my travel photos I realised I had a quite a few examples of amusing ‘Chinglish’, (that’s poorly translated, grammatically incorrect signage or product packaging which oft-times has humourous connotations). Now, we are not mocking here at Gonzo Tourism; the end result of us trying to write a sign in Mandarin would probably [...]
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