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The Worst Hostel in the World – Little Fir – Harbin

Captain Oats — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:49:31 +0000

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 [...]

Kuching in Sarawak, City of Cats My Arse!

Captain Oats — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:28:42 +0000

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 [...]

Mini Rough Guide to Wales Beach Attack Shame

Captain Oats — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:02:41 +0000

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 [...]

Travel Can Kill

Captain Oats — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:26:22 +0000

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 [...]

Chinglish, Amusing Signage and Products | Part One

Captain Oats — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:20:27 +0000

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 [...]

7 Reasons Christmas in Mongolia is More Traditional than You Think

Captain Oats — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:12:26 +0000

This time last year I and my comrades were heading back to Ulaan Baatar, huddled in the back of our Russian Built version of a VW camper van, which we affectionately named ‘Nastia’. This was after a week long expedition into the Gobi Desert; we were reeking of various odours, weary and very much looking [...]

Inner City Pressure… part one

Captain Oats — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:15:40 +0000

For your enjoyment I thought I’d document some of the weird, annoying and downright ridiculous shit that goes on in lovely London town, (actually a city, in case you live under a rock… or are a sub-mental). And as a homage to the fantastic Flight of the Conchords I’ve dubbed this series ‘Inner [...]

Racist Lonely Planet Pictures

Captain Oats — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:42:42 +0000

Have you ever noticed that the pictures in the Lonely Planet are sometimes a tad, well… stereotypical and offensive? Well we have, so this is the first in the series of racist Lonely Planet photos; feel free to send in your own favourites.

We begin at the beginning, that is when [...]

TFL Thinks we are all Seven Years Old…

Captain Oats — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:56:39 +0000

If you live in London you have no doubt seen them, these that is…

Ok I might have slightly modified these but you know what I’m talking about. I’m concerned that this flavour of weeble-bodied, baby talking rubbish will only serve to inflame the senses of those already [...]

Authors

Team GT — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:38:58 +0000

Sweaty Editors

Captain Oats in non-formal attire.

A gentleman explorer, probably of the highest order – Captain Oats is a man of absolutely no military standing at all who currently resides in Her Majesties London. Heed his words, for they are the words of a man who has, ‘seen too much’, or [...]