Places I've rocked

This is the 'Global' part of Global Metal Blog.
For all my fellow travelers out there (metalheads or not): If you've ever thought about going to any of these places, or if you need some inspiration for where to travel next, this section contains my impressions from the places I've visited, including any metal bars, record stores, etc.

Yeah, you may wanna turn up your device lights and sound for this one. This time, we're chilling by the beach after sunset on a Greek island that virtually just got deserted overnight, and it's getting darker and darker due to that whole thing with the sun setting and all.

Finally, Kathleen comes to visit me in Tbilisi, and we start to turn the last horrendous six weeks' shitshow around. Here, we're celebrating our penultimate night in a place I started out liking but that I've ended up hating due to this last month and a half of horrible experiences.

Yes, here we finally are in Hamburg. Not for long, though, because as I'm saying, I'm moving on down south pretty soon. (Actually, southeast, but stay tuned for an update on that.) And sorry about those cars in the background. We tried to stop them.

Here I am by Castle Schönbrunn in warm, wealthy, wonderful Vienna. I'm actually on my way to Bratislava, but as it turns out, Bratislava's kinda hard to access directly. So I pitstopped in Vienna for a coupla nights. And, the enduring July heat and humidity notwithstanding, this place is breathtaking.

Yes: The sumbitch FINALLY got himself some new sunglasses. You can all breathe normally again. And possibly do other shit normally. Like, shit normally. I dunno.

Yeah, remember that secret country from our last video? We went to Malaysia to celebrate my birthday. However, amongst other observations, here's why that didn't exactly turn out as planned. (And this is where my comments about recovering from food poisoning on that last video should start making sense).

Yes, just so you're prepared, my old sunglasses had to go and fall apart like a childhood dream during a college exam period. I only have these with me, and everything's kinda... not that cheap in Cambodia so far, so we'll have to stick these ones out together for a while.

Seeing as how the entire region of Southeast Asia has this raging collective hard-on for Buddha, they built a park with a whole lot of Buddha statues – supposedly because they thought they had enough temples. Anyway, here's what it looks like with yours truly in there:

Hanoi sucks!

2023-11-15

While my lovely assistant is out exploring Hanoi on our last day here, yours truly is stuck in bed with a bad case of stomach bug. And while I'm bummed out about missing the walking tour I was supposed to attend, I'm taking the opportunity to explain why Hanoi is still my least favorite part of Vietnam so far:

Here we are in wonderful Tbilisi, Georgia. Our last night, however, didn't turn out exactly as we planned.

Having recently embarked on a deliberate tour of Caucasia, my lovely assistant and I, at the time of writing, are currently in hella hot Yerevan, Armenia.

Just spent short of 2 weeks in Belgrade, Serbia. And it turned out Alestorm were playing there on the final night. Yeah, really good idea when you gotta take a flight the next day! But of course, no way around it for a metal pirate like yours truly.