almost broken, pritchard checking in

Friday 15/08/08

Woke again at 6.30am feeling like shit and rough as fuck. To start the day jim hickey wanted us to to do a morning of GV’S (general views) so we had to walk round a packed (when I say packed I mean packed to the point of clostraphobia) market looking at live frogs being skinned alive and still kicking 10 min after and pig’s heads along with all kinds of stuff. There’s so much variety I wouldn’t be surprised if I saw a cooked humans cock there haha. My hangover was taking it’s toll as it was 35 degrees and people everywhere, I was spinning out big time but managed to hold it together.
Next up we went to a place where if you have a cold or are not well then the combodians don’t go for your usual parecetamol they get bloody done over instead. Me and daint came out of there scared to our eye balls and inn right agony but at the same time the situation was hilarious. I’ve also just found out that my scare’s are gonna last a month, stoked.
We went filming at the port next to the river for one of the funniest things we have ever done. Daint laughed that much he was gonna be sick and steve our medic and security said he has never laughed that much since he was a little kid. I’d love to share the story with you all but im not allowed but put it this way it was fucking funny and it’ll be on the Cambodia series when it hit’s MTV. I’ll give you a clue though, it involves my cock and that’s all im giving you.
We had to drive 2 hours out of the city for our next scene so we jumped into our crew mini bus and a few miles down the road we did some filming of the 2 of us in our jeep making our way to an 11th century budhist monastery on the top of a mountain. I was so tired from lack of sleep and drinking my brains out that I needed an hours sleep before filming at the monastery so I grabbed it in the mini bus as the crew set up. When they finally woke me I realised it was a massive walk up the longest set of stairs to the top and I was knackered. It was all worth it when we got to the top though as we had a 360 deg view of Cambodia and it was just stunning. The monestry was another eye opener as it was so old and there were Buddhist monks everywhere praying and having their hair shaved off haha. Just as we sat down to film the heavens opened and it didn’t stop all night so we spent it filming in a tiny little prayer room with budha looking down on us and a load of lit candles.
We finished at 8 pm and jumped into our mini bus for our hotel. I filled myself up with my usual chicken curry loaded my blog onto dains kill city site (keep eye’s peeled as im gonna sort out my own S.W.Y.D blog out when I get home) got changed and we all headed out for our last night on the tiles. All the crew were together and we spent the night getting smashed and reminiscing over the weeks footage. As we got to the bar we’ve spent most of our time inn DV8 at 2am we found out they were shutting but as soon as they saw us they re opened. It took half hour to try and get the music going but we eventually got there and we all spent the night fighting over it “my turn, my turn, you were on last” haha the tunes were smashing out and as per usual dancing on the bar was on. 6am and the mellow tunes came out i.e cat stevens, Elton john, john lennon etc.
I think I got my head down at about 7am and got woken at 11 to go filming.

Staurday 16/08/08

We only had to film one little thing this morning so it wasn’t to bad. Jim hickey then said those magical words “it’s a wrap” and we all hung overly started shouting and handing out high fives.
In my hotel room writing this now and contemplating having my last chicken curry before we leave at 3.30pm.
Ladys and gentlemen bring on SOUTH AFRICA.
The heavens are have opened and the thunder and lightening is going off again and so I my stomach and brain. I hate flying and especially in this weather. We arrive at the airport check inn and wave our goodbyes to one of the best country’s I’ve been to. Were heading to Bangkok first and we have 6 hours to spend there before we catch our flight to S.A, it will take 3 flights to get to our destination Durban. We arrive in Bangkok and grab some food have a foot massage then check inn. We board the plane and im still hungover and feel like shit then the plane starts chundering down the runway and all I can think of is “hand on a min, is this plane going fast enough?” it’s going slow and we must be getting to the end of the runway any min. im sweating and got the look of fear on my face as the plane literally leaves the runway right at the end of the thing and it seems in trouble climbing. Thank god I wasn’t sitting next to daint or he’d be ripping me big time. I was in this mess for half hour because it took that long for the plane to get above the clouds.
Had my food and slept the whole 10 hour flight waking in time for my breaky. As we leave the plane one of the boys said to me “did you hear what happened to sam (camera man) on the plane?” the guy he was sitting next too was feeling him up in his sleep and when he woke up this dude had his hand on his cock, horrible. Sam reported it to airline staff but the dirty cunt got away.

Sunday 17/08/08

Im in johanesburg airport now checking inn for our final flight to durban then we have the day to ourselves to do whatever we want.
Arrive at durban picked our bags and net our fixer. Jumped into our mini bus for the 2 hour drive to shakaland zulu reserve and as we arrive there are 4 giraffes walking around. Daint kept saying south Africa reminds him of wales until he saw the giraffes. This reserve is fucking sick, check it out at www.shakaland.com and you’ll know what im talking about.
Our rooms are are like these huge straw beehive looking things and a zulu took my bags down to my room and as he opened the door I was very surprised as it looked very comfy. I emptied my bags, sat down and read up on some of the info package that we got i.e how to greet a zulu, say hello and thank you in their launguage etc. once I did that I had a fucking fight with the plug socket and my travel adapter. I plugged it inn and it kept dropping out so I could charge my phone, computer so it took a bit of ‘adapt over come’ on my behalf and trap it inn whilst the adapter is balancing on top of the computer and a coffee cup pushing in the plug finally I got it working.
I started reading my russel brand book and then daint popped in and we went to the camp fire for a few beers (only a few I was having as I needed a rest from the stuff as I know when we hit cape town im gonna batter it) and waited for everyone else to turn up. I started feeling a bit ill with the hot and cold’s and shivering so I ate some food and got back to my beehive for 9.30pm and instantly fell asleep.

Monday 18/08/08

I woke this morning inn a right mess and really feeling the effects of my illness so I shiveringly walked to breaky not too good. Steve gave me some paracetamol and then I had a hot shower and I slowly started coming round. When your on shoots like this there’s no time for illness as you’ve got a job to do so you just have to grin and bare it. I mean, if you couldn’t get out of bed then fare play but the production and the shoot your on could all be put in jeperdy and that’s a lot of money down the pan and what could have been a great shoot along with the great experiences were having filming our show.
I was fine anyway so happy days. We drove from shakaland to another zulu reserve where we shot a comedy scene which I cant wait to see edited down and we also did our chat with a guy called vince who would guide us to where the zulu tribes are and what kind of legal high’s they would have to offer us. It was a lovely setting, me, daint and vince sat round a fire in the darkness only with oil lamps and the fire as light with the sound of a running stream in the backround.
The parecetamols must be wearing off again as im shivering again and im refusing beer so I couldn’t wait to get back to shakaland smash some food down my neck pop another 2 mind smackers on the head and go to cloud cuckoo land.

Ttuesday 19/08/08

I woke up at 3am this morning thinking my alarm had woke me up for my call time of 7am so I jumped into the shower all ready to go for breaky then I realised it was 3am and I was sleep walking, bloody hell taxi for pritchardo. I took my clothes off snuggled my head into the very comfortable pillows provided and re awoke at the right time feeling much better.
Were leaving shakaland today and staying with the zulu’s tonight so I packed my bags had breaky, loaded the mini buses up and off we went.
Today is really sunny and you can tell it’s put everyone in a good mood as it’s been overcast and cold for the last 2 days.
Spend all day filming with the zulu’s who are a right top laugh. It’s weird cause when you meet tribes like me and daint have you have to sus them out first before you can be yourself around them as you don’t want to offend. Doing what me and him do we could quite easily do that in our first second of meeting them. Take it from me, the zulu’s were up for anything and found us quite amusing which was a great start. These dudes are the real deal and we were tio spend the next 2 days in their company along with their 5 wife’s each. Lucky bastards.
We spent another night in traditional zulu beehive huts but these one’s didn’t have tv’s in them so we went down to have food and some booze but I only managed 2 jack’s as I was still feeling really ill. Im never ill so when I am im a right grumpy tit. I feel like im wasting away and it’s starting to spin me out a bit so much so im gonna have a bupa MOT when I get home to make sure im ok. It’s most prob all the partying etc and fingers crossed not some tropical disease. I say my goodbyes and went straight to my room and was in bed by 9.30pm.

Wednesday 20/08/08

Wake up still feeling like shit but made it down to breaky for some food. Did some more filming with the zulu’s which, today was quite emotional for the 2 off us and tears were very close to being shed on camera for the first time. It was an amazing experience though and one I’ll never forget along with all the others I’ve had filming this show.
We had to do some more filming involving the 4+4 jeep and I was driving. The terrain is proper rough and bumpy but I had a lot of fun driving inn it. I don’t know what it is with me but as soon as anyone knows im driving they instantly shit themselves and start talking to me like im a 10 year old. Does anyone trust me??? Am I that bad a driver???? Are they scared for their lives???? It’s most prob a mixture of all of them to tell you the truth. I suppose im like peter pan behind a powerfull beast and inn half hours time it all comes true haha I reversed whilst the passenger door was still open and I basically ripped the door off it’s hinges hahaha. We tried to repair it to try and make it not look as bad as it was but no luck, that’s the joy of insurance even though their run by rip off merchants.
We say our goodbyes and head on our 2 hour journey to Durban. We arrive at our hotel and it’s fucking bling bling as fuck. Me, daint and steve share a 3 floor penthouse and I have the upstairs bedroom which overhangs the living area with huge windows looking over Durban. It was something else let me tell you. We shower up and sit down on our comfy sofa order some jack and coke’s while we wait to go filming at a night club. As we sit there watching the news they’ve just mentioned the lefthansa plane crash in Madrid which is shocking news. All I can think is what must have been going through those passengers minds as it happened, absolutely awful. RIP.
We drink our drinks and head downstairs for food. I only had soup as I wasn’t that hungry and I had that exited feeling in my belly as I knew we were back in a city and there was night life to be had plus steve had given me opiate bassed pain killers for my illness so I was drugged up and ready to rock. We arrive at BURN rock club which is huge and full of metal heads etc so I knew we were in for a good night.
We sat down and started filming and what happened in this club was a bit on the wrong/fun/sick side depending on how you look at it and what kind of person you are. The onlooking crowd (who were all south African sanchez fans) were well up for it and the cheering and shouting made for a good bit of footage and a great night out.
I was fucking smashed and in my mess I decided it was a good idea to have one of those huge earings where they have to take an 8m hole out of your ear to get it inn. This club has a tattoo/piercing parlour inside so the dude grabbed my ear and went to work on me and let me tell you it fucking hurt and I ended up with a huge metal horn in my ear. At the time I thought it was amazing and poised to keep it in for the rest of my life. Yeh right, I woke in the morning looked in the mirror and thought “what the fuck is that?”, it had it’s own heart beat too.
We got back to the hotel room and I was in a right mischeifus mood so I dropped my knickers and shat into jim hickeys sink then went to my room and shat off the top of my bedroom balcony which was overhanging our living area and there was shit everywhere hahahaha. I’ve got it all on video so I’ll try and get it up on my youtube site when I get home.
Went back into jim’s room and started dancing with sam with ipod tunes rocking. 3am came and thought I’d better go to bed as were up at 6am to fly to cape town.

Thursday 21/08/08

Day off and Wake at 5.30am with the hotel phone ringing my ears off and still pissed make my way down to reception and realise im the only one there so I don my ipod again and wait for everyone else.
We arrive at the airport and jump on our south African flight to cape town. We arrive 2 hours later after a really bumpy ride and disturbed sleep and find it’s cold as hell and cloudy, gutted.
Met up with a really cool guy called james who is a surfer and skateboarder which is right up mine and daints street and he’ll be looking after us on our day off. He took us to our hotel which is called FIRE & ICE and we have one of the best greetings we’ve ever had at a hotel (considering when we walk into hotels they see us and don’t want us in there, cant blame them really) with shots of booze and a nice freshly made smoothy and a sign saying ‘FIRE & ICE WELCOME DIRTY SANCHEZ TO OUR HOTEL’ great, an excuse to smash the place up and get an award for it?????????? That’ll be a first. I get into my room and it’s well posh, even the welcoming pack inn our room has the dirty sanchez movie poster on it. A big thank you too protea hotel group for treating us with respect and not animals, you ROCK.


Me, daint, jim, sam and steve jumped in the mini bus with james and he was gonna take us surfing. I wasn’t going inn as steve took that ridiculous lump of metal out of my ear and it wouldn’t stop bleeding so they got their wetsuits on whilst me and steve sat in a bar and drank jack watching them catch waves whilst there were a flock of whales jumping out of the water.
3 hours down and I realise me and steve polished off a bottle of jack haha. The boys joined us for a drink when they finished and we headed off back to the hotel to chill.
Off out to film something else tonight then hit up the town and see what’s going on. Im gonna go in search for a dance club so I can dance my pants off and sweat my ring off.
It’s daints birthday tomorrow so a big night out is coming.