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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 [...]

Spain and the Sea | Part Two

Baron AzA — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:04:43 +0000

If you missed part one you can read it here – Spain and the Sea | Part One

…and now to the heart of the thing dear friends.

Ah yes, culture. Finding culture in a place like this is hard let me tell you. The closest we got was [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]