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Danny O'Dwyer is 27 years of age and lives in the horse racing capital of the world, Newmarket. Danny joined the Boys Around the World with no backpacking experience, but in the short space of time since, has crammed in half of Europe, visiting such places as Sweden, Holland, Albania, Latvia and Bulgaria.
Danny's motto is "look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves". He took this motto literally when travelling through Eastern Europe, refusing to pay for the basic necessity of going for a piss. As far as I know, Danny has been caught out only once in this respect, having to pay a full two euros for the privilege of taking a piss in Montenegro.
Whilst Catz and I forked out unknown amounts of cash for bottled water, Danny, eager as ever to look after those pennies, bought just one bottle for the entire trip. Ignoring well documented advice, Danny continually filled up his bottle with local tap water. He became so confident that he even started filling it up from fountains. This backfired, quite literally, on a train to Budapest. Ever true to his motto, Danny bagged up his soiled briefs and despite protests from me and Catz, put them back into his backpack to wash once he returned home. |
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Danny is the self appointed camera man of the group. This has almost landed us in a spot of bother on a couple of occasions. First, in a subway in Vienna, after a few beers, Danny spotted what he described as "the thing out of dungeons and dragons" and proceeded to comment on it as it approached us. In reality, it was just a poor tramp, and Catz and I feared for our safety as Danny kept on shouting "what the hell is it" and "I don't know what the fuck it is". Check out the video of this classic boys around the world moment.
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The second occasion in which we almost found ourselves extradited back to England occurred on the Montenegrin/Albanian border where Danny tried filming the Albania border guards. Danny soon had a handgun pointing through his window, and was forcibly made to delete the footage he had taken. Much to mine and Catz' discomfort, Danny made a fuss about his personalised passport holder not being returned. Catz and I were simply glad to get through the border unscathed. |
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