Alan Jeeves Blog

This was my best holiday of my life, me and avi went to Cape Town – her home town and travelled along the Garden Route to Plettenberg bay.

Below is our experiences at each location.

Cape Town – Village Lodge

Our first stop was at Village Lodge in Cape Town central. Nice area but due to it raining all the time while we stayed here we didnt venture out much. Finding the place was a bit of a challenge – just look out for the restaurant’s name: Soho.

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We’re planning to enter the annual Cape Town Big Walk  this year which is on Sunday 8th November 2009 – i had to email the orgainser to confirm this date as the website hasn’t been updated with any details of this years event. They replied ultra quick howvere – so thanks!

Post a comment if you are planning on participating!

Another road trip took us to New Forest – Lymington. Along with the ride was Ruth and Avril – my girlfriend!

Lymington was lovely, we went to the Otter and Owl Sanctuary.

And stayed at a nice Bed & breakfast named Fernbrake, the host made us feel comfortable and happy and would recommend it highly, it was located on a side track so was very quiet. See: http://www.fernbrake.co.uk/

We ate sunday lunch at the Hobler Inn pub, all our dinners was yummy and i ate two deserts! See: http://www.alcatraz.co.uk/indexSite.html

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Had a lovely weekend with my girlfriend in Bath.

Fudge Factory sell nice fudge

3 page photo album – nav buttons top left

Went to Las Vegas and New York with my brother for two weeks ending with Sacha’s stag weekend in New York.

Had lots of fun, and bumped into a couple of people from Mitcham! Can’t believe it, certainly made the evening.

Stayed at ~Circus Circus in Las Vegas – nic e and large room (with two double beds!) but the place was unsurprisingly full of families which was annoying.

Vegas is sureal – see photos here

New York was cool, similar to london but much bigger – in many ways! See photos here.

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If you’re not a Flash programmer this may not entertain you – so move onto something funny, if you are please read on…

If you have a two movie clips – one laid over the other, flash is ‘clever’ and knows the user can’t see the one underneath and therefore deactivates mouse handlers – onPress, onRollover etc when the mouse moves over the MC overlaying it.

Another test (s3 inside s2) shows all handlers of a MC within another MC will never be called if the containing MC has any handlers set.

Check out this movie showing what i mean

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Went to the British Museum the other day with mum to see China’s Terracotta Army.

The exhibition was pretty crowed and small was wasn’t that enjoyable but was good. But the other stuff in the museum made up for it, was there for over 5 hours and was very knackered by the time i got home!

See: British Museum – China’s Terracotta Army

Went to Wales for the first sunny bank holiday of the year, with work colleagues Silvia and Andrew. We are all currently single so we called it a Singles Road Trip!

Had great fun, saw some dinosaurs, caves and farm animals – all at one place! It was called Dan-yr-Ogof.

Went up some mountains to look through the valley and at Black Mountain.

Also went to Caldicot Castle – though Silvia was not impressed with.

See lots of photos here at my Picasa Album

The first night we were at Oxwich Bay. I made the best fire here, … Continue Reading

Went to Barcelona for a long weekend break (12/01/07 – 16/01/07) to celebrate Sarah reaching 30!

It was really amazing and inspirational – the Gaudi’s buildings were like nothing I’ve seen!

Check him and them out on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Guell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Familia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Batll%C3%B3

Check out my first Flickr album here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87809769@N00/sets/72157594484604506/show/

Wasn’t that impressed with Flickr so created a Picasa album too: here

I have now got the travelling bug and hope to travel the world in the near future!

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Just got back from camping near Bodiam castle.

Had a lovely time, really sunny all weekend, Sarah, Sacha, Del, Niki and little Lily went. Was a squeeze in sacha’s car but was worth it.

First time i spent any decent amount of time with Del and Niki, but got on with them very well.

Found out we went a week after their annual festival called Hope Festival, which apparently was not officially on but went ahead any how and attracted 2000 people! Note for next year – festival time is beginning of June!

Got pissed off not remembering to take warm clothing for the … Continue Reading