Return of the 2006, ‘Round The World’ Scrapbook!

The original Scrapbook I used for my 2006 around-the-world trip was basically built from scratch using flash and PHP. It served me well and wasn’t bad considering it was made by me, but it definitely wasn’t perfect.

I have now finally finished manually porting the pages over to this blog in all their glory. OK so its basically a way for me to relive the past, but if you want to be reminded of what you missed out on, you can see all my posts in the RTW category.

Tag links also now work, so you can click on the more specific tags at the bottom of each post for anything tagged with that link, opposed to categories on the right-hand side. Eg, clicking on GABBS will return all the posts where Gabby is mentioned or PHIL will bring up our time in Edinburgh and Greece for example

Some people also don’t notice the “Continue Reading..” links on post, (now made more obvious) if you click it or the post’s Title it will take you to the full post with the rest of the story, photos etc.

My Pad in Prague »« East meets West @ Greenwich

RTW: p51 – Love Parade 2006!

Starting as a protest (basically some guys following a car with a couple of subs), Love Parade grew to be the world’s largest outdoor dance festival.
With the authorities refusing to class it as a protest anymore, Love Parade organizers could not afford the clean up bill, as previously it was paid by the Government (condition of protest) and so it was canceled for 2 years. Continue Reading…

RTW: p52 – Potsdam »« RTW: p50 – Berlin 2 & The Generator Hostel

RTW: p48 – BERLIN

BERLIN!

I joined up with Shana and her crew from Sydney for the finals in Berlin! The 3rd place play off were essentially the grand final for the Germans. They absolutely crowded the FAN MILE on Straße des 17. Juni, and after the win partied well into the night. The final itself was a mixture of all the teams fans rejoining to party, and well as much as I hated Italy at the time, better they win than France hey

We also did some sight seeing, including these Peace Bears, decorated by every country n the UN. (Australia’s pathetic entry was done by Ken Done and and looked like the work of a 2 year old with some fingerpaint).

And with that, The World cup is Finished! Here comes 2010!

RTW: p49 – Amsterdam(age) »« RTW: p47 – WC 2006 – Australia’s Exit

RTW: p47 – WC 2006 – Australia’s Exit

Bullshit.

We all know thats the only way to describe Australia’s exit from the World cup, as World Champs, of diving, drama, crying, and general pussies Italy, took a dive with 30″ to spare, giving Totti a free chance to take the game after 90″ came up with 0-0. Australia deserved so much better. If to lose, then to a team that deserved it by playing better and scoring within game play, not by diving. Thats it. No more on that topic.

RTW: p48 – BERLIN »« RTW: p46c – WC 2006 – Australia V Croatia