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Prince Charming

Holy Schmoly Batman!

About Me

At the end of last year I randomly decided i wanted a new job, and 2 flights, a very long train ride, 5 interviews, and 3 signatures later, I find myself living in the netherlands.
Well, whats there to say, I live in an appartment in Utrecht, international global telecoms product stuff, when im not slaving away at my desk or or keeping the corporate coffers flowing, im out on my bike sampling the local countryside, munching on cheese and stroopwafels, and enjoying the local wheat beers.
I try to spend as much time out of the UK as possible mainly to avoid political persecution from the fascists. I spend a fair bit of time on Vacation, recently India, and at the end of this year hopefully south east Asia.
A few things I'll be bitterly dissapointed if I dont do by the time I'm too old to remember what they are all about: (In no particular order)
    The Paris to Dakar Rally, or if im still broke the Plymouth to Dakar Challenge Arrive in Newfoundland Canada from the UK without getting on an aeroplane Cycle around the americas, starting in Newfoundland, cycling accross canada, stopping off in hudson bay, and heading north into Alaska, before desccending down the west coast into the states, then into Mexico. Crossing from Baja to the mainland at La Paz, then making my way down through central america, Columbia, Bolivia, Peru, Chile and finishing by taking a dive off the end of Tierra Del Fuego Visiting both polar ice caps before they melt. Start a successful business

I have a music deficiancy complex, if I go more than 4 hours without listening to music I get very grumpy and start freaking out. I also have to listen to at least one of the following every week else I start to go insane.
    The Buzzcocks - Have you ever? The Undertones - Teenage Kicks(RIP John Peel) Joy Division - Love will tear us apart Iggy and the stooges - Be my dog
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Newsflash!!!

Well, I survived India, just, and now I've arrived in the Netherlands, I'm homeless, but employed. Utrecht is lovely, but europe is freezing cold!
You are a
Social Liberal
(75% permissive)

and an...
Economic Liberal
(26% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Strong Democrat
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My Interests

Cars, Cycling, Hiking, getting out of the UK, adventure, politics

I'd like to meet:

I like meeting all sorts of people, i generally make friends with people who enjoy travel, are quite open minded, crave adventure and arent scared to do something stupidly spontanious. Right now I want to meet some fun people in and around Utrecht to find out what there is to do in this town.

Music:

Now we're talking, my taste is pretty varied but a quick scan of my collection reveals: Paul Oakenfold, Dirty Vegas, Cheryl Crow, Tortoise, Yeah Y eah Yeahs, Dr Dre, Snoop, New Order/Joy Division, Modest Mouse, Mercury Rev, The Beatles, The Killers, Beastie Boys, Kaiser Chiefs, The Clash, The Cure,
White Stripes, Arctic Monkeys, PJ Harvey, Prodigy, Beastie Boys

Movies:

Run Lola Run, Thesis, City Of God, Usual Suspects, The Untouchables, Being John Malkovich, The Thomas Crown Affair, American Beauty, The Shawshank Redemption, Lost in Translation, most De Niro films, Full Metal Jacket, Trainspotting, Dustin Hoffman is the daddy, Pulp Fiction and most Tarintino films, Most stuff with Samuel L Jackson but not 51st state. Old Boy (Sick but good.) Layer Cake, The Long Good Friday (Most crime films), memento, Rear Window, Dr Strangelove

Television:

The League of Gentleman, Fawlty Towers, Father Ted, Bodies, Chewin' The Fat, Still Game, I don't watch much TV, just the occasional series. The Hustle

Books:

The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet, The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho, On The Road - Jack Keroac, The Old Patagonian Express - Paul Thereux, The Acid House - Irvine Welsh, Down and out in Paris and London - George Orwell,

Heroes:

Nelson Mandela, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, George Orwell, Bob Dylan, Stanley Kubrick, John Peel

My Blog

Google has spoken

So, a buddy of mine is thinking about taking a job in sweden. Personally I think thats a great idea, but I want sure of how I could put my arguments, so I turned to google, specifically images.google....
Posted by Prince Charming on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:55:00 PST

Built like a cannon, goes like a bullit.

Today has been fun, I'm in Goa, specifically the northern town of arambol which consists of a bunch of hippies, a small town, some beach huts, and an amazingly pretty coastline.   I hired a royal...
Posted by Prince Charming on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:10:00 PST

Jaguar Drivers

Those of you who know me well will know by now that I'm not very fond of Jag drivers, especially not old, G+T drinking, golf playing, non-indicating, go-slow coffin dodgers that driver around in their...
Posted by Prince Charming on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:49:00 PST

Yiiiiiippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

Nyeeeheheheeh! Guess who's off to amsterdam!!!!! So, I've been up for 36 hours now, I've been in transit since midnight last night, i've spent the day selling myself, and now, im reaping the rewar...
Posted by Prince Charming on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:45:00 PST

Expensive bike ride

So, decided to go for a bike ride with Alan and Loles this morning, got about as far as the train station, and there was this almighty crunch, the shifter had caught in the spokes and my bike was a ma...
Posted by Prince Charming on Mon, 26 Sep 2005 05:07:00 PST

Post Nostalgic Stress Disorder

So i've been scratching my head thinking about stuff recently and now I can't decide what to do, I need a distraction.
Posted by Prince Charming on Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:22:00 PST

Dinner

Yippeee, I'm cooking dinner, Alan is coming over and we're going to watch Scum which is a cracking film about life in a borstal starring Ray Winston (He's the daddy.) Contemplating watching Sexy Be...
Posted by Prince Charming on Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:44:00 PST

Adios Guillermo

Been out partying to say good bye to Guillermo, I dont really know Guillermo very well, but the lucky bar steward is off to work in tokyo. His party rocked though, and the food was good. I'm now exha...
Posted by Prince Charming on Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:40:00 PST

There She Blows

Right, so yesterday I finally got around to sorting out moneypain. .. Its a total bodge of a repair, but now she runs nice and cool, so hopefully I will make it to cambridge this week and not end up ...
Posted by Prince Charming on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Grumble

So today has been such an anticlimax, not only did my cunning plan to get fit by cycling until i drop get rained out, its now all nice and sunny out of sheer mockery, Damn you weather! Not a good...
Posted by Prince Charming on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST