Let't talk TRAVEL

Yup, “blag” is still common. 😀

My biggest coup was getting to DJ at Privilege in Ibiza for Xtravaganza, back in the day – we played twice there for them and took a load of clubbers from our residency in Manchester, England with us! Great times. Biggest club in the world at the time, DJ box right in the middle of the swimming pool.

As I like to run marathons to keep fit, I make it a point to run them in emblematic cities – have done Stockholm, New York, London, Berlin (as a spectator – broken ankle caused me to pull out of that one), Barcelona, Prague and, for some reason, Lanzarote! Looking to add a few more ASAP.

Apart form that a visit to Cape Town and tour of South Africa including a game reserve, plus a memorable Nevada/California road trip involving a face-to-face experience with a wild bear are personal highlights.

Would love to visit India and Japan.

Soooo much travelling, I won’t list everywhere and make you all jellies :p

Forgot – I cycled from Havana to Santiago in Cuba and did the trail to Machu Picchu in Peru a few years back… Jeez I’m getting old if I can’t remember “unforgettable” experiences like those two! :rolleyes:

Living in Tampa right now but finishing up my Spaniard citizenship. Traveled there in March to visit my family and absolutely fell in love with Madrid. I want to move there by next year and look for employment there (not as a DJ =P i’m majoring in Aviation Administration). Only thing that sucks is that employment over there is worse than here in the U.S. 🙁

I have been to France overnight Once;
I Feel that Everyone should see New York at least Once in their Lives 🙂

I usually take a big trip once every two years. But the best recent one was a month in East Africa in a low impact war zone (my second time in a war zone – I was in central Mexico during the Chiapas revolution). I was there for work in 2007 researching the Lord’s Resistance Army and their conflict with the UPDF. I lived in IDP camps in Northern Uganda. Traveled with Child Soldiers into Southern Sudan. Ghosted WFP trucks through the bush. That sort of thing. It was amazing. Some of my photos from the trip made it on to the BBC website and there’s an interview on World Vision Radio where I talk about being in the conflict zone and hanging with the child soldiers (a ceasefire had just been implemented and the adult leaders had abandoned the kids to go the peace talks in Juba). I won’t post the link here since we’re not supposed to self-promote, but I’m very proud of that trip. If anyone’s interested in East African politics you can find it easy enough.

But as far as being relevant for this blog, I was passing through Kampala on my way to the Sudan border – I flew into Entebbe – and while in the capital I went to one of the music stalls and grabbed a ton of Ugandan Hip-hop on a flash drive. Some of it was absolutely amazing. Of course it’s all piracy there, there are no real music stores, so I didn’t get any data to go along with the tracks and they’re all at a terribly low bit-rate, so though it was one of the deepest digs for music I’ve ever done, it’s all pretty useless for DJing, sadly.

The next trip is either to Azerbaijan or Cambodia!

I’d really love to travel to NYC. It just looks awesome and the longboarding scene there is supposedly huge! I’d also like to see the Vatican and Italy. Maybe a little of Turkey and the Mediterranean.