Boxwars Birthday Bash 15/12/07

Paris December 2007

more to come soon.

things time stuff... and places

Well, Nicky got a new job today, at a wicked bar near our place.

She is off to Ireland soonish for a Visa run, at the moment we are organising a train journey from Edinburgh to India... yay.

New and Improved Video

India September 2007

Edinburgh Critical Mass

sunset

IMG_1685, originally uploaded by Will Cowan.

a wicked sunset in arambol

I N D I A

yay,

well all good news so far, although I've spent the last few days a bit weak with a case of acute gravy bum. We had a great few days in Mumbai a nice full on introduction to India, hot stinky sweaty, busy busy busy. Both me and Nicky took a day to soak it up and tune into the rhythm of it all.

our only dodgy day was our last day in Mumbai, getting ready to be extras on a big Bollywood movie we hurriedly packed our bags and left our guesthouse, we were booked on the night train that night down to Goa so had to leave the set early. The movie is called "Love Story 2050" sounds classy huh? It turns out its a pretty big budget film. It's got Miss India playing the main part and they are filming some scenes in Australia as well.

It turns out the stress caused by my dodgy street food upset stomach, that as well as a little bit of firm persuasion that we HAVE to leave early to get back to get our train was slightly compounded by the fact we realised in our rush we had left our passports underneath our mattress in Mumbai.

It all turned out perfectly well, in the end.... if any one ever stays in Mumbai, go to Hotel Volga, just a couple of doors up from Leopold's Bar. ( the drug dealers out the front will help you find it.)

Well today we have started our Motorbike journey up the coast of Goa, more updates and some more photos to come soon.

Will.

Update

well, The Festival has begun. Me and Nicky are now living over the other side of town. It's over here still only a short ride to work. You can check out a short tour of our place here all is well, its cosy and lovely.

Mum has come and gone, she had about a month in UK, a few days up here in the Forrest Rd house, then a bit of a jaunt around england, I met her down there to scatter Johnbol's (her dad, my grandad) ashes. It was a nice little trip, it does feel strange that in the less than two years I've been here I have scattered both of my grandfathers ashes.

Any ways, I've been getting into Critical Mass, it's a great fun last friday of the month bike ride. It's a sorta protest fun ride, me and my friend Spanish Al are doing a website for it now aswell http://www.EdinburghCriticalMass.com

cheerio

Boxwars Billboard

a series of photos that i took for the boxwars crew.

Colin (our car) is up on eBay )-:

			Bids	Price	Postage to eh12qp, GBR	PayPal	Time Left
			-	£0.99 £499.99	See description		9d 23h 05m

Not a heap of news from Edinburgh recently, Jules and Dave are being sorely missed, Alex is back and its starting to get warm.

Beltane was a great fun night, loads of fun & games. Week after next it's my birthday and we are heading to Knockengorroch again. wiiiiicked.

Mongol Rally Update

Here's an update on the Mongol Rally 2007 sign up and some very important news about the final chance to grab a team place.
Please read this email carefully if you would like to apply for one of the remaining 50 places.
The servers have done a sterling job after the initial burnout, and this is the current situation:

Wednesday's sign up: Server meltdown, no places taken
Friday's sign up: 100 places were taken in 22 seconds
Monday's sign up: 50 places were taken in 8 seconds.

So we've released 150 places and they were snapped up in a matter of seconds, completely outstripping our expectations... by a long way.

We expected the sign up to have been slightly quieter on Monday, having already released 100 places, but demand was still impressively
high. After the first two sign ups, it's clear that because so many people are after a place the system, although technically working on a
first come first served basis, does make it frustrating for those with a slower internet connection. The large number of people has turned it
into a bit of a lottery for some.

and the result??

Hi Guys,

The demand for the last 50 places was amazingly high. Overall this
year, demand has totally outstripped the 200 available.

I'm sorry to have to send you such a rubbish email, but unfortunately
the team you submitted to the ballot at iwantaplace@mongolrally.com has
not been assigned one of the remaining 50 places.

The last batch of places were randomly selected and the 200 slots have
now been filled.

so, shit thats it, no rally, no Mongolia, its all a bit shit really.

Photo of the Month

Courtney, originally uploaded by Will Cowan.

a lovely snap of Courtney (and stew) in the crowd of Hogmany. (best views full screen)

In other photo news, thanks to Demian one of my Boxwars photos is gonna be published in frOnt Magazine, (a Brit men's mag along the theme of FHM), Demian has also looking to write a story of the catacombs of Paris, cool underground ones, and wants me to go shoot photos with him. Should be very cool, we hear back soon, and will do the story in April.

WooHoo!

Merry Crimbo and have a great Hogmanay

All the usual silly season cheer,

I hope every one's enjoying their festivities.

Our Xmas was a blast, beer and CocoPops for breakfast, and a few prezzies. We headed down to Kim and Gez's house for Champagne and more prezzies, then back up here for roast goose party games and general debauchery.

I gave Nicky a new Mountain Bike, with the intention of taking it on the Mongol Rally and doing a wee bike jaunt around South East Asia. Wooooohooo

Will & Nicky