(Dangerous )Tales from the UTE (pick up truck) near death experiences,dangerous travel ,bicycle, cycle touring ,hitchhiking,sailing,illegal border crossing,drugs,guns, corruption, comedy,humour,philosophy,
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Two blokes from Yorkshire ,England 1995 . Cycle into a 40degree New Delhi day ,east toward Kathmandu,Nepal and South East Asia ,Illegal border crossings, near death by :thugs ,knife bandits ,car ,cyclones and crocodile. After bicycles stolen , hitching ,walking and sailing . Busting guts on a sheep station .No BS , No hype ,just how things really happened.And hopefully inspiring to potential travellers stuck in a rut doing the same same and turning to drink and worse at the weekends to compensate. Although dark and dangerous in places ,it’s told with Comedic ,philosophical undertones.
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7.Grapes 🍇 Heading North (Final Episode) (00:37:34)
Dicky and me return to Fuengirola but the place ain’t the same for us anymore . Dicky is pining for Maria so badly that we jump on a train to her home town.Money is running low and we start to feel th...
6.Grapes 🍇 Shaving in Car Wing Mirrors (00:32:54)
After getting my moon bag pilfered in Torromolinos ,we ride even further south toward the tip of Spain and the Atlantic Ocean .We have a couple of brush in with the boys in blue ,Dicky falls in love ....
5.Grapes 🍇 Running away (00:43:11)
Despite living like kings on the Costa Brava the call of the wild is calling .
4.Grapes 🍇 Looking for the Double Glazing Dude (00:38:57)
After the slight oversight ,being two months early for the grapes , Dicky and me roll to the coast and over the Pyrenees to Spain, in search of Dickys mate Toni in San Antoni.If want to send me a mess...
3. Grapes 🍇 Poor and hungry in France 🇫🇷 (00:35:00)
After waking up alive we jump on our steeds and ride out of Paris,rejoicing when we find the countryside again . After several more scrapes in boat and a Mercedes we hit a big blob of a mountain range...
2. Grapes 🍇 (Why don’t you go pick grapes in France 🇫🇷????) (00:35:25)
After getting knifed /falling in love /being crushed in a mangle .i limp back home to lick my wounds . Poor Dicky was in the same boat and back under his old superman duvet at his Ma’s . It was at thi...
1.Grapes 🍇 The Early Years (00:40:45)
This is another travel tale but with a much younger self and with a very good mate of mine Dicky Hanlon .It’s the summer of 1988 .. both of us 19 years of age .After getting simultaneously dumped by o...
31.Escaping Paradise 🌴 🇹🇴 (00:27:37)
Back at the Blue Oyster Bar Trying to get enough cash to leave Tonga 🇹🇴 while avoiding gold diggers and getting married .Lil Frank burns his bridge with Naomi .This is the last of the book 📕 chapte...
30.Kava, Lava,Feki & Coconuts 🌴 🇹🇴 (00:57:56)
I sail out the outer islands where I meet Lavasi who takes me across stone fish infested reef to a place I can pretend I’m Robinson Cruiso .
29.Little Franko and the Blue Oyster Bar (00:44:11)
Got a job working for a Swedish lady at the Blue Oyster Bar surrounded by many interesting characters.
28.Shipwrecks ,Sharks and Angry Pirates 🏴☠️ 🇹🇴 (00:55:10)
Limboing my way out of the kiwi plantation for a chance to sail away to Tonga with an Angry Pirate and a Cherokee Indian Surfer from Cali.
27.Aotearoa. Land of The Long White Cloud (00:53:36)
Crossed the pacific in a shinny silver bullet. Bought a bike off a bloke at the Flying Hedgehog 🦔 for 150 kiwi dollars ... Tied my backpack on the back rack and headed south .
26.Hot Ice-Cream, Coke Dealers and Bra Boys . (00:58:06)
Working two jobs… amongst drug and alcohol dependent tenants during the day and cocaine addicted customers and staff at night . Then a dude rocks up smoking bongs from dawn til dusk and drags Deano in...
25.Red Lights, Fights and DJs (00:53:26)
Finding Bri living in “The Cross (Red Light District ) thick in the clan with a gang of Scottish blokes bent on causing mayhem when ever they could .And a Jean-Claude Van Damme wanna be gets jiggy wit...
24.Gold Tops And Bronze Whalers (00:35:41)
Still in Byron hunting down Gold Tops and watching the sharks follow the surfers .
23.Byron Bay and Grimarse the cockney soul surfer . (00:53:36)
Back to Perth with a wad full of splodoonies . Searching out my old mate Bri . But he’s already heading east toward a rising sun ☀️ so I take off after him with a couple of naked blokes .
22.Glitchy Sheep and Mallee Roots 🐑 🦘 (00:46:42)
Subjected to a daily rattle ,getting verbal and actual shit thrown at me .I strive to pull my weight and get my own back on the shearer’s .Warning this podcast has some crude shearer’s humour which I’...
21.Sheep Shearer’s and Shoplifters (00:44:40)
Hitching South away from the tropical paradise. Bri and me wander different paths in the search for work.I arrive at a shearing town out in the salt lakes .
20.Larry Seven Kids & Bodan🐎 (00:46:04)
Bri and Me hitch into Broome in search of work.
19.Ant Muffy and the Funky Turtle 🐢 (01:00:40)
As we slice through the India ocean we meet up with Ant Muffy and The Funky Turtle . We sail together toward Broome.Danger is always close by .We tread with trepidation past croc slides and box jelly ...
18.Crocodiles 🐊 (00:35:29)
Sailing back out into the Kimberley and down the coast …under watchful eyes. Keywords: Red eyes in the dark,what was that noise ? Chuck a coconut !
17.Jose (00:19:11)
This is a dedication to a beautiful person Jose ….See you in the next life !
16.Escaping Darwin 🇦🇺 and the Demons (00:47:09)
Trying to survive Darwin the troppo troops and a dark demon .We roll down the hill to Dinah beach yacht club for a chance to escape. 😎 key words I wish I could fly ,Joseph Bonaparte gulf , SeaPlane B...
15.Surviving Darwin Australia 🇦🇺 (and avoiding a Darwin Award) the second close call in a week. (00:37:17)
Finally Bri and Me reach the “pot of gold” at the end of our rainbow . The pot of gold also has six meter long crocodiles,box jelly fish and big sharks ..but the streets are even more dangerous.Key wo...
14. Bali Indonesia 🇮🇩 Doppelgängers broken boards and broken minds. (00:48:29)
Could have died but ended up saving a life in this one ( with the help of a legend Balinese dude with two surf boards)Bri and me reach Kuta Bali ,the young Australians Ibiza .. gritty seedy and sporad...