montreaux jazz festival
The tour had a rest day and seeing as we were just around the corner we popped off to montreaux. Pretty much exactly 2 years ago i was in montreaux as well and was almost certain the jazz festival was on. We had a pretty wild time at this jazz fest the last time so it seemed like a perfect place to go on the rest day. The sun was shining and the lake was calling our names. Not soon after we had found the swimming spot of 2 years ago and were sessioning it, except this time we swam across a small channel and bum rushed one of the sweetest swimming spots ever. 7metre high dive platform, 3 metre platform, 3 metre spring board, a jaws esque floating picninc bench and some excellent grass all on the edge of lake lausanne. 7 metre p and 0 ferries evacuation pencil got dropped, what a rush. After the swim we were hungry for lamachun and beer. By some kind of strange coincidence 2 years ago we missed the beastie boys play by a day, this year we missed prince by a day. Even though his tickets were 200franks a shot for the cheap seats we still made out like we would have went. The jazz festival was alos over by a day but undetered we missioned into town to see what we could see see see. we were buzzing from finding a few bottles of beer and a bottle of coke. I was also buzzing i got to visit the freddie mercury statue again. Maybe i will do it again in another 2 years time? Then as some kind of karma payment for giving a hitchiking hockey player a lift we happend upon some kind of party. There were mental krusties eating kebab and drinking 25cl beers in the hot tubs. A stage and a dj. a hill to chill on. Best of all it seemed no one was handing money over for drink or bbq. I’m guessing this was some kind of montreaux jazz fest wrap party we had stumbled across. Even though we lacked anykind of pass, our gcse french and blagging skills got us beer and meat all night. we were pretty krust so they didnt argue, we fit right in. the bottle of vittel that was a potent vodka shit mix pushed us over the edge. These swiss frogs didnt party for that long and no one could answer ou est le discotheque? We had a long walk home to sleeep in a car park on the edge of the lake. at least it was broken up by getting a spliff from an iraqi on the freddie mercury statue.
The day after the hang over was in effect but was soon cured by the healing proporties of the lake. Then came the day long diving session with french school kids. 3metre back somersault clocked and im pretty sure I dropped a half decent gainer as well. even if i did wreck my bollocks doing it. montreaux is class.
crabbin.cabin
crabbin with some crab niggers. 1.99 crab lines and seahouses harbour wall jump. beer drink in crab caravan. country music sing along. bring back the mesh over the hood. winners cap road tour 09. 3am sea swim. catamaran pirate dive. misfits drive home. the s fell off my speedos
joe22
‘Loser’ Joe Nicholson was 22. He put on a great spread in his Fenham palace and then moved on for a drink or 3 in enigma…………
sat/sun/coast/party
Friday=ride to whitley bay to ride the park. by the end of the day id clocked at least 20 mile on a bmx. olly, mexican john and wally were enjoying the sun and an empty park? it should have been empty but somehow the kids got a day off for a gas leak, lucky bastards. whitley park requires supreme mathematics to ride due to its transitional complexities. the majority of kids in the bay have a facial scar from riding the super complicated bowl or just from falling into it from the top. the bowl also usually has a spattering of blood next to the coping to fill you with confidence. however riding a park that you can see the sea from can never be bad. The riding was followed up by a weight session, some sparring, a cup of tea, blog cross over, some whey protein shakes and even some street fighter 4 on a sick tv. sf4 is amazing, play it.
Shef-Battle-Royale

the best car i ever owned. renault 19 1.4 energy, cost £25. Never broke down. Only fault was it wouldn’t stay in 5th gear if you eased off the gas. had to develop super human powers and ultra smooth driving style to use it in 5th. I wish this car was still here today. RIP. anyway it got us to sheff way back when battle royale was on. i forget the year? the flickr got raided














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