Name: Nina
Sent: 9.16 PM - 6/25 2001
For all those who still insist on making comments about Ramon’s English spelling or grammar. Please enroll yourselves into a university and graduate as English Teachers. That way, you can release the great desire of yours to correct people’s spelling or grammar. You will have a whole classroom of students to correct, which should keep you pretty busy. If you have already majored in English. Then enjoy the following spelling and grammar jokes. Chill out. Don’t take everything so seriously.
Name: Chris
Country: England
Sent: 9.16 PM - 6/25 2001
Hi Ramon, I think your spelling is amazingly good considering English is not your first language and also because you're usually typing your reports in the middle of the night, after a busy day, while the rest of us are fast asleep. Anyway I think it's funny (especially when you said I was a LAD with a great laugh) I do hope you meant to say LADY!
Looking forward to your next report - Chris.
P.S.- My sister isn't my twin, she's years younger than me (as she keeps on reminding me). Bye for now.
Name: Ramon Stoppelenburg
Country: Heuston Station, Dublin, Ireland
Sent: 2.27 PM - 6/25 2001
Tim Stoppelenburg is a cousin of mine. My brother is called Etienne.
Name: Coralie
Country: England
Sent: 1.28 PM - 6/25 2001
Hi Ramon
Please feel free to still avail yourself of a stay at our home where we will always have a wonderful surprise for you ! ..its nice to see your brother tim and dad follow you as well!god Bless and safe journeys
love
Coralie
Name: lianne
Country: zwolle, netherlands
Sent: 12.14 PM - 6/25 2001
We all want to be big big stars, but we got different reasons for that ;0)
Name: dennis kaatman
Country: het vliegende paard
Sent: 12.00 PM - 6/25 2001
he ramon
hou je het nog een beetje uit zo zonder ons. Het is hier af en toe wel opvallend rustig, er is niemand die af en toe eens lekker zeurt. maar goed, ik vind het knap dat je het nog steeds vol houdt. De planning was volgens mij dat je met een maand weer terug zou komen, maar schijnbaar bevalt het je zo goed dat je nog wel even weg blijft. ik wens je veel succes en plezier toe
Dennis
Name: Marcelo
Country: Italia!
Sent: 10.22 AM - 6/25 2001
Gretchen just wishes everybody would be as perfect as she is. Well eat this: Nobody is perfect! Stupid £$%&*!
Name: Gretchen Liles
Country: Here is a tip!
Sent: 10.20 AM - 6/25 2001
...correct your spelling errors on your site!
Name: Tim Stoppelenburg
Country: The Netherlands
Sent: 8.25 AM - 6/25 2001
Hi Ramon,
My father and I follow you every day. It is very cool
what you are doing. Good luck and take care of yourself.
Tim
Name: noorie
Country: pakistan
Sent: 8.15 AM - 6/25 2001
hi iam waiting for ur new reports.
hurry up plz.
Sent: 11.56 PM - 6/24 2001
Hi Ramon, Give me a call about getting a photographer to you. All the best,
Jim in Dublin.
Name: Rosa
Country: Ireland rules!
Sent: 8.08 PM - 6/24 2001
I agree with Marcelo from IT and Marloes from NL, there should be a fanclub website! Ludo, Mister Ramon's Mapmaker, do you have some webspace left?
Name: Ramon Stoppelenburg
Country: Ireland
Sent: 7.05 PM - 6/24 2001
Coralie, please know I don't have any hard feelings to you. The whole thing at the Birmingham Airport was just a big miscommunication thing, but I learned from it and -like Andy says- enjoyed 'the adventure'. It's just Murphy's Law I guess...
Ramon.
Name: Andy Bullock
Country: UK
Sent: 6.30 PM - 6/24 2001
Coralie, I would not feel too guilty, I phoned Ramon the 'Birmingham Airport' evening to see that everything was OK and he said yes, but if he really didn't want to be there, he could have said, 'well, actually no', and we would have gladly picked him up again to stay-for-another-day, but he didn't. Anyway, I think he quite enjoyed his adventure so don't be too hard on yourself. One thing i would say is that you missed out on a great experience not having him stay with you! Bye for now,
Andy
Name: Alan MacDonald
Country: Ireland
Sent: 2.22 PM - 6/24 2001
Sympathy for Coralie....
Ramon is hopefully staying with me tomorrow, but I can't contact him on his mobile :( So I know how you felt. Its giving a big bad beepbeepbeep, number unobtainable.
Ramon: Check your email! I've sent you tons of contact and location information on how to reach me. Sorry my mobile was off, but I was asleep. Soundly.
regards, and hoping to see you soon :)
Alan
Name: CORALIE
Country: ENGLAND
Sent: 6.57 PM - 6/23 2001
Ramon to say Im Mortified, it doesn't even enter the equasion. I feel so gutted at you having to stay at the airport. If there is ANY way I can make up for this mix up. I beg you. I had a lot of lovely things arranged. I have tried to ring your mobile but it keeps saying this number is unavailable.
SO everyone: I was (in part) to blame for the horrendous night at the Birmingham airport! If you come back here RAMON....I will PAY for you to be transported to our house. However. I do hope you forgive.
love. Coralie
ps got you a great pressies from Holiday ...
Name: Ramon Stoppelenburg
Country: Ireland - today!
Sent: 6.13 PM - 6/23 2001
YEAH! ANSWERING QUESTIONS-time!
Carl: So what about your job back home? Did your boss let you have a few months of? (With pay)?
Answer: As you can read elsewhere on this website, I am a journalism student and a part time deejay. So I have all freedom of the world.
Brendon: how do you fly around the countrys?
A: I try only to fly over oceans, countries on the same continent will be reached by hitchhiking only. And if I fly, I don't pay for it. Brussels - London was sponsored, also my boats from the UK to Ireland.
Chris: Don't you miss your own bed?
A: No, not really. It's just a bed.
Eline: How are you sure that people that invited you are still available in 2 years?
A: I can never be sure, but I have emailaddresses and telephone numbers. If the person doesn't live there, I won't go.
So far!
Regards,
Ramon.
Name: Eleni
Country: Greece
Sent: 4.10 PM - 6/23 2001
How are you sure that people that invited you are still available in 2 years? People move, marry, divorce....
You better ask invitations for the next 2 , 3 countries, not the whole world!
Name: manx gals
Country: isle of man
Sent: 3.07 PM - 6/23 2001
when were you on the isle of man and when did you leave? did you enjoy your stay here?
BIG UP 2 THE ISLE OF MAN AND RAMON, KEEP IT UP FELLA!
Name: L.S.O.M.
Country: Malaysia.
Sent: 4.44 AM - 6/23 2001
Ramon,
Forget David Letterman, you are a celebrity yourself (even better)! Please do welcome questions.This is going to be a great internet corner - I bet it!
Take care.
Name: Brendon
Country: New Zealand
Sent: 1.40 AM - 6/23 2001
how do you fly around the countrys? with a limited budget, like do you try to get free tickets or suthing?
Name: Carl
Country: Isle of Man
Sent: 10.35 PM - 6/22 2001
So what about your job back home?
Did your boss let you have a few months of?
(With pay)?
Try to get to Cyprus !!
Good luck and Keep it up :-)
Name: Steevy
Country: France
Sent: 9.34 PM - 6/22 2001
It was a joke !
;-)
Your project is brilliant,
idea of genius !
Name: Steevy
Country: France
Sent: 9.31 PM - 6/22 2001
You seems to stay a very long time in UK ?
If you stay one month in each country you will take three or more years to do your travel !
Name: Anneloes
Country: Netherlands
Sent: 10.48 AM - 6/22 2001
Yeah, Marcelo from Italy is right! There should be a Ramon Stoppelenburg Fan club (This project will become sooo big)! Who wants to start it up, I have no idea how it works. Anneloes.
Name: Chris and Andy
Country: UK
Sent: 7.25 AM - 6/22 2001
We loved having you stay with us in Liverpool, you were great company and you'd be welcome back anytime.
A message for Elliot in Manchester - THANK YOU so much for the lovely gift, I really appreciate the work that must have gone into making such a tiny, delicate picture.
Name: Brian
Country: South Africa
Sent: 6.37 AM - 6/22 2001
Hi Ramon
I just read the suggestion from Zym. That's brilliant! How would that be set up? Worldwide? Man, what a brilliant idea! Shall I try to get a radio station or two to promote it here? It will be hard, because of their rules, but I can try.
Spot you in Durban.
Brian
Name: Jen
Country: Leicester, UK
Sent: 9.50 PM - 6/21 2001
well u seem to be having fun! if my house wasnt so full, i'd invite u round to stay! i'd love to do something like wot ur doing. it wud b a good experience! enjoy!
Name: Tigrrr
Country: Malaysia
Sent: 5.15 PM - 6/21 2001
Just to tell you that my internet bills have gone up because of your interesting reports! Perhaps I need to have a sponsor for letmereadramonsreportsforaday.com! Good work, Ramon!
T
Name: Cheryl
Country: England, cambrideshire!
Sent: 3.31 PM - 6/21 2001
Hi, Just o wish u all the luck in the world, i wish i had the courrage to do something like your doing! well done! and have fun!
Name: Ramon Stoppelenburg
Country: Isle of Man (yes, it's a country!)
Sent: 2.14 PM - 6/21 2001
Hi Karen,
I really don't know when I'll hit the USA, it may even be in a couple of years from now... About the publishers; do you know any good ones?
Regards, Ramon.
Name: Karen
Country: Texas - USA
Sent: 2.06 PM - 6/21 2001
I haven't really been keeping up - any work on if you'll make it to the states? Hope so! I'm also reading some of your old reports, the photos really make it so much more alive. I think any publisher would jump all over this. Keep up the great work!
Name: Wendy Jervis
Country: United Kingdom
Sent: 1.44 PM - 6/21 2001
This is a message for Andy Bullock - I would be very interested to know the significance of the Mug. We had to leave in huge rush that morning as we were getting late for a business meeting. Email me at wendy@theigloo.co.uk! :)
To keep you reassured the mug is safe in the cupboard.
Huggggggggs!
Name: noorie
Country: pakistan
Sent: 10.45 AM - 6/21 2001
dear ramon,
i read ur project daily.
plz dont get dissappointed with small losses and carry on with ur magnificent work.
i so want to invite u but i dont think i can manage it.
however
loves
noorie from pakistan
Name: Marcelo
Country: Italia!!!!
Sent: 1.15 AM - 6/21 2001
Hey Ramon,
Do you already have a fan club? And if so, where can I join?
Keep up your great 'work', I really enjoy it everyday!
Marcelo
Name: Helena
Country: UK
Sent: 10.15 PM - 6/20 2001
Hi Ramon,
Nice to know everyone is treating you well. You're doing great! Zane keeps asking where is Ramon today? And Iman says "He's in Southammpptonnn!" LOL
It is true, you touch many peoples lives in different ways.
And to those who come to this message board with rude comments: "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say nothing at all!"
All the best Ramon!
Helena, Iman and Zane
Name: Ramon Stoppelenburg
Country: Liverpool, UK today
Sent: 10.03 PM - 6/20 2001
Hi Olu from London. Good question: how do I get laid? Well, imagine yourself traveling around and visit another place day by day. Different people everyday. It just doesn't really come to my mind anymore. It will be something for later.
Ramon.
Name: olu
Country: London, UK
Sent: 6.59 PM - 6/20 2001
If you stay at all these places for one night, how do you get laid? Where do you take the ladies (or gentleman?). Do you get frustrated?
Name: Andy Bullock
Country: Heath Hayes, UK
Sent: 6.28 PM - 6/20 2001
Hi Ramon, how are you? I just read the latest report from June 17 (B'ham airport - Sheffield) and I just wanted to agree with you about Billy Elliott. We watched it about 1 week before you stayed with us and it is excellent. We were going to get a DVD to watch when you stayed with us, but as you arrived a bit later than expected, we didn't really have time. Hope you are enjoying your travels and I hope the technical problems are sorted soon as I like to keep updated! I hope that Colin and Wendy liked the mug and know the significance?! (Or if Colin or Wendy reads this - I hope you liked it!)
Regards,
Andy
Name: Nina
Country: Panama
Sent: 6.24 PM - 6/20 2001
I disagree with Raphael that most people are the same all over the world. There are different cultures and beauty in every country. I think it is so nice that Ramon is traveling and sharing all this with everyone. Every person and every place is different in his or her own way. People are basically the same because they eat, sleep, talk, go to work, etc. But what I am seeing in Ramon’s reports are the diversities of these common everyday habits. Plus, the pictures and views of towns, monuments, houses and landscape are all so different. France looks different than England and so on. I had no idea what black pudding was. I thought it was a chocolate flavored pudding. This is one of the new things (little, as it may seem to others) I learned among the many other things I have learned by reading Ramon’s reports. Different cultures, habits, people, landscape and experiences are what makes this journey of Ramon’s so exciting. I’m not bored at all! I’m sure Ramon isn’t either.
Name: Raphael
Country: UK
Sent: 6.08 PM - 6/20 2001
Ramon -
Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions about boredom. One lifetime is not really enough to discover everything about this World.
May you never stop being curious.
R
Name: Brian
Country: South Africa
Sent: 12.07 PM - 6/20 2001
Hi Ramon
Pity about your administration system error. That's only a computer. You, on the other hand, are a person, and a strong one. Keep on moving, even if you have to save your reports for uploading later. We shall wait patiently for your system to be up and running again.
I am looking forward to meeting you, and can hardly wait for your arrival in sunny South Africa.
Bye now
Brian
Name: raphael
Country: England, UK
Sent: 10.13 AM - 6/20 2001
Hello Ramon
Just wondering - are you getting a bit bored with the
"adventure"? Isn't it the truth that most people, most places are the same all over the World? Isn't it all just another mattress on the floor and a television?
A Zen Master would say that you have a kind of disturbance within yourself if you feel the need to constantly travel when the real answers lie within you.
Please note that this message is in no way to discourage or upset you. I respect your journey.
Name: Sharlini
Country: Malaysia
Sent: 5.22 PM - 6/19 2001
Ramon, you're doing a great job! HS spoke for all of us, I'm sure. As for people like Corrector, remember this: "If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others." ~François, Duc de la Rochefoucauld.
All the best in your journeys,
Sharlini
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Name: Edwin
Country: Netherlands / Tilburg
Sent: 4.58 PM - 6/19 2001
Hello Ramon,
I just found out about this project and you as the "force" within it.
This must be a big thing for you.. When I read the messageboard, I was suprised about what you do with people. The man from Poland (page 2), Alex Pajitrov (85 years old) brought tears in my eyes.
People love you and what you do, because you are doing what a lot of people would like to do...
I think this is a good thing, not just for you but for all people who can relate...
Stay in touch with the man you are.
p.s. Please do not critsize me... My intention is only to communicate.
Edwin
Name: Melinda
Country: USA
Sent: 4.04 PM - 6/19 2001
Hi Ramon,
It's a little wierd writing you. I've been following your steps since you began, and feel I know you, but you haven't any idea who I am. Anyhow, I check in every couple of days and read about your travels and I just read your June 14th/15th log, you were picked up by a modern day witch and you said something that intrests me and I wanted to respond.
You said that this witch could not prove to you anymore then other religions could. I don't have a religion but I do have a belief (a relationship)with Jesus Christ and I wanted to tell you that when or if you came to Minnesota my husband and I could prove to you the power of this belief.
Until then I look forward to reading about other places you've stayed. Also if you need a place to stay in Scotland I may have a name for you they live outside of Glasgow.
Melinda
"A merry heart doeth will like medicine." Proverbs
Country: wendy@theigloo.co.uk
Sent: 3.57 PM - 6/19 2001
Hi Ramon,
Colin and I hope it didn't take you too long to get a ride this morning. Our business meeting went well and one of the people at the meeting heard our interview on Radio Sheffield. They played a lot of the interview not just the one line or so that I heard this morning.
Thank you for a remarkable and memorable two days. Even though we agreed to disagree on the future of Europe ;-)
Just to let you guys know, Ramon is a very friendly and unique person and I promise that you will find it a pleasure to play host for a day or two.
We will keep in touch and eagerly await your future reports to be published.
Best wishes
Wendy and Colin
XXX
Name: rachel
Country: UK
Sent: 9.44 AM - 6/19 2001
Dear Ramon
I am honoured that you have made it this far to my country - the UK. I can only dream about the amazing adventure you have undertaken. In only 6 weeks, you have probably experienced more people, more places, more highs and lows than most of us can manage in a year - maybe a lifetime.
Live the dream!
Rachel xx
Name: LSOM
Country: Malaysia
Sent: 8.59 AM - 6/19 2001
Dear Ramon,
Thanks for making me realised that INTERNET equals to
COMMUNICATION. Take care of your health and travel healthily.
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