Monthly Archives: June 2012

Nina’s Travel Rule #26: When the Pirate Says Drink, Just Say Aye…

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The Booze Barge

So I’m dancing in a bikini and grass skirt combo on a booze barge, floating somewhere slightly off the coast of Honduras, which is hypothetically being captained (to a greater or, as at the moment, lesser extent) by its drunken Canadian pirate builder and distractedly being bartended by his crew of teenage Honduran hotties. I’m considering getting concerned that it looks a lot like Cap’n Perry is letting my brother drive the barge (I love you, Jballs!), which clearly can lead nowhere good, but then the Tequila Bell rings and I think “Fuck it. The pirate said ‘free tequila’, and I say ‘aye’!”

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Nina’s Travel Rule #25: When in Rome, Do… Do… Do a Roman?

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Aussie Aussie Aussie!

So I read an interesting travel tale the other day (full disclosure: Aussie Day for foreigners, also it’s a pretty good blog) and thought, dang, I haven’t yet shared my first Aussie Day disasters… With no further ado then, here’s what happens when you drink 24 beers in 12 hours, crash two house parties thrown by people you’ve never met, and otherwise demolish a foreign holiday you still can’t recall the purpose of, in the very heart of its homeland…

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