Be The Jam

I have had about five hours sleep since Friday morning, have walked numerous miles, danced a fair bit, worked for about 32 hours on my feet and not been home. I stopped drinking coffee a long time ago but over the past couple of days I seem to have drunk  quite a few. This is probably not a very healthy was to cary about the business of living but I think it is probably sensible to start getting my body and mind used to prolonged periods of discomfort and lack of sleep. Then again it might not be the most sensible thing to do at the moment as I really need to be on the ball when speaking to potential backers. 

Yadda yadda.

More interestingly, what with this site also being a travel guide, a couple of friends of mine are currently en route to Transnistria.

WHERE?

From what I understand Transnistria is a break-away Modovian republic / Soviet style communist state / gun running and people smuggling capital of Europe. Quite why they have gone I don't know. If anything goes wrong I rather suspect that they will be in an awful lot of trouble as there are only two countries in the world that recognise Transnistria as a country, there are no diplomatic relations with the UK. They have been advised by some military types to treat the boarder guards as they would a rabid dog, quite how offering bribes fits into this picture I don't know. If they get back I'll be trying to persuade them to write about their adventures for this site. If they don't get back I'm going to have Rob's flat until his release.

I just received this email from them. 

"Am currently driving across Romania with a guy whose usual job is getting Romanians through customs at Dover and finding them illegal jobs. The Daily Mail would love him and he's being very helpful to us, if a little Borat-esque.  Just had a near miss with a horse and cart but fortunately it only scraped the paint work and left a little blood.

Crazy place. Border awaits."