I spent almost 2 years living in Australia yet never met up with Simon – promise he will be the first person I contact if I make it to Perth sometime. Cheers to Millwall Neil Macey, Simon Panossian, Zizis, Marc Beard, Justin, Ricky, Caitlin and all the other guys who we won’t remember…BECAUSE WE WERE TOO DRUNK in New York City!Īs my travels progressed since then I later lived with Neil in Australia (Parramatta) caught up with Zisis in London for a beer once and also travelled round Taiwan and Korea with Neil.

Thanks to all who attended this manic night – no videos exist of it, but the photos serve their purpose.

I woke up in New York City…I don’t remember getting home. I woke up in New York City without remembering how I got home… That plan remained and I knew he would be there. Neil and I had no way to contact each other in those days, we didn’t use Facebook much and certainly had no mobile phones, but my previous message to him was to meet in Mr. On that walk some kid hands me a flier for a $10 All You Can Drink Night!! Are you kidding? This was a gift from the Gods.

So I left the hostel for the afternoon and went for a walk looking for inspiration. I didn’t want my mate Neil to come all the way to NYC for a drink and me, who was backpacking there at the time have nothing planned. However my best mate just happened to be working outside New York City at the time and was very busy, but he could spare a night to come and visit me. Nothing major in terms of spending – cheap and cheerful and have a few quiet beers. I was on a backpacking world tour at the time and New York was one of the first cities on my hitlist that time so I made my way round all the sights the first few days and settled in – I had 8 days in the city as I wanted to do it properly. Backpacking it in New York City with Cassiano my Brazilian travel buddy.

Aces and eights casino nights