USA | Sunday, 21 Dec 2008 | Views [100]
Having just spent an amazing fortnight in New York its hard to imagine going home. It is made a lot easier, mind you, by the fact that im in the departures lounge of Newark Airport about to fly to Stockholm in the middle of an American snowstorm. It ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 7 Dec 2008 | Views [118] | Comments [3]
Youll notice that, despite my promises of frequent updates and my 'staying on top of it' attitude, ive been rubbish. In keeping with that, and until i find time and a thesaurus with enough alternatives for the word "magnificent", im just going ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 9 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED STATES OUTLYING ISLANDS | Sunday, 9 Nov 2008 | Views [128]
Hawaii, within the first hour of being here, was one of my favourite destinations yet. Still a tad raw from the visceral dissapointment of Fiji, i had lowered my expectations of this, another tropical paradise, to such lows that had i been gunned down ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 1 Nov 2008 | Views [112]
Bula! Fiji is just like youd imagine Fiji to be. The beaches are white and sandy, the trees are green and full of coconuts and the rain, which we enjoyed on a daily basis, was hot and wet. Still, beacuse its Fiji, we didnt mind at all. Our time in ... Read more >
FIJI | Monday, 27 Oct 2008 | Photo Gallery
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AUSTRALIA | Friday, 24 Oct 2008 | Views [186]
We have been busy over the past week. I wrote last just before Jossan and i climbed aboard our 3 day catamaran cruise and i was dreading being trapped with 45 or so total animals on the high seas. Maybe it was my low expectations, or maybe these were ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 14 Oct 2008 | Views [131] | Comments [2]
Unbelieveably, the time to leave Sydney has come and gone and im writing this from the poolside of a Cairns hotel. Jo's sunbathing in bursts, trying to take advantage of the few rays of sun that are making it through the thick black storm clouds filling ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 27 Aug 2008 | Views [191] | Comments [4]
Dear Diary, Its been a while. Ill start with work – that being where ive spent most of my time for the last few weeks. I was working for Goldman Sachs, an investment bank in the city center the last time I updated, but that assignment ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 29 Jul 2008 | Views [164] | Comments [2]
There is, as always, little from Sydney to report. Its all work and no play for now, but in 2 months we'll be back on the road. While ive been working at my bank through the week ive been earning a little extra on the side as a tree surgeons assistant.... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 20 Jul 2008 | Views [155] | Comments [1]
Not alot to report from Sydney at the moment. The Pope came to the city and brought 200,000 pilgrims with him. The place has been a mad house with every hotel, hostel and train full to the top for the last 7 days, but they all go home tomorrow ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 8 Jul 2008 | Views [175] | Comments [3]
Success!! After practically no effort at all ive been given a job i never expected working in an investment bank in the city center. Ofcourse id rather be working outdoors and enjoying myself but the money in this role is too good to pass up so ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 3 Jul 2008 | Views [161] | Comments [2]
The last time i wrote i had just started my new job and as im writing this in my apartment at 10am, i am clearly unemployed again. I knew the job i had was only temporary and its probably just as well i got out of there when i did before the drunken ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 23 Jun 2008 | Views [163] | Comments [2]
Daily checking of the bank balance has proved to be all its taken to push me over the edge from being a backpacker whos worried about running out of money, to being a madman nervously chewing on the ends of my fingers muttering to myself about how its ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 18 Jun 2008 | Views [223] | Comments [4]
New Zealand is the most beautiful country on earth. With its endless snowcapped mountains and unspoiled countryside in every direction its easy to see why they chose to film Lord Of The Rings here for its otherworldly quality. Its actually hard ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 15 Jun 2008 | Photo Gallery
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AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 29 May 2008 | Views [228] | Comments [2]
Careful what you wish for. Having been driving for days and having not had a sniff of even a light beer, we hit the town running. Little did i know that Jos friend, Linda, has the drinking constitution of the larger half of the Irish Rugby Team, ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 26 May 2008 | Views [173]
Weve been to an Australian Football Game. This sport is what Australians live for. It was pretty good fun, 66000 cheering madnen and women in full swing. Lots of kicking, no throwing, and lots of scoring. Weve been told we have to choose a team ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 16 May 2008 | Views [163] | Comments [3]
In the last three days ive driven over three thousand kilometers. 10 hours of driving a day, three days straight with about a fifteen minute pause for lunch and an occasional two minute pause for some photo taking at one of the thousand sites of interest ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 12 May 2008 | Views [200] | Comments [1]
She runs like an absolute beauty!! Mighty White, or Pepper as Jo calls our brilliantly white car, is a real winner. The only thing that had us worried was a warning tone that comes on every half hour or so signalling that theres a fault with the airbags ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 10 May 2008 | Views [183] | Comments [1]
For a week now Jo and i have been feverishly searching for a suitable car to take us on our cross country voyage. We've looked in newspaper after newspaper, searched websites, and taken dozens of numbers off of all the backpacker notice boards weve ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 5 May 2008 | Photo Gallery
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AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 4 May 2008 | Views [309] | Comments [6]
Well, ive been getting lazy with this diary thing i can see now, and its time for a nice big update to get me back on track! We spent a few more days on the Gili Islands and enjoyed plenty of sun, too much sea, and what felt like sand absolutely everywhere ... Read more >
INDONESIA | Saturday, 19 Apr 2008 | Photo Gallery
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INDONESIA | Friday, 18 Apr 2008 | Views [404] | Comments [4]
Having opted to book our accomodation online while in Thailand we avoided the hassle of finding a decent place to stay when we arrived here in Bali, and our hotel came with the added bonus of an airport transfer to make things even easier. A great place ... Read more >
THAILAND | Saturday, 12 Apr 2008 | Views [368] | Comments [4]
From the diving mekka of Koh Tao we have headed south to more beaches and sunshine, retracing our footsteps from a couple of years ago. We went to Phuket by bus then caught a cab with a pair of 60 something Slovakians over to the beach resort of Kata ... Read more >
HONG KONG | Tuesday, 8 Apr 2008 | Photo Gallery
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THAILAND | Wednesday, 2 Apr 2008 | Views [227] | Comments [1]
Done and dusted. Our temporary licences are stapled in our dive logs and were ready to hit the rest of the world running. Todays dives were both great but the first was truly brilliant. Weve only done 14 dives but number 13 was the best yet. Odd that.... Read more >
THAILAND | Tuesday, 1 Apr 2008 | Views [213] | Comments [1]
Its been a marathon diving session but tomorrow morning we have our last 2 dives before we leave this mekka for the fin-footed and alcohol dependant. Ive totally lost track how long weve been here but ill wager its around 10 days now. When we arrived ... Read more >
THAILAND | Saturday, 29 Mar 2008 | Photo Gallery
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THAILAND | Saturday, 22 Mar 2008 | Views [215] | Comments [5]
It is especially hard to explain just how many people here on this little party island are Swedish when you consider that they, as a nation, only number 9 million. Its harder still, then, to fathom that over a whopping 60% of everyone here, who isnt ... Read more >
THAILAND | Wednesday, 19 Mar 2008 | Views [196] | Comments [3]
Thats China out of the way and now were here in Thailand. Being a bit upper class as we are, and due to everything being soo cheap, were skipping any bus action here and flying straight to our next location further down the country. Koh Samui, where ... Read more >
HONG KONG | Sunday, 16 Mar 2008 | Views [224]
We left Yangshou behind and took a sleeper bus to the border with Macau. Thanks to our formula one wanna be coach driver, and the worst road conditions in the world anywhere, we arrived with time to spare before our ferry and without a wink of sleep.... Read more >
CHINA | Monday, 10 Mar 2008 | Views [321] | Comments [6]
Well it had to happen eventually. After 11 days of perfect sunshine it started to rain and its been drizzling ever since. Not to be defeated however weve been carrying on like it were mid summer. A couple of days ago we took as ride up river on a little ... Read more >
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CHINA | Thursday, 6 Mar 2008 | Views [255] | Comments [2]
Well, we made it. 24 hours straight on a train in a totally horizontal position. Thanks to a book i was quite into i never even noticed the hours ticking by, and Jo seems to have the curious ability to be able to sleep for unnaturally long periods of ... Read more >
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CHINA | Tuesday, 4 Mar 2008 | Views [338]
So weve been in Shanghai for a good few days now and its easily the kind of place i could see myself coming back to - wether to visit or to stay. Tomorrow we board the train in the early am to a little place called Guilin, where we'll stay for about ... Read more >
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CHINA | Monday, 3 Mar 2008 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Sunday, 2 Mar 2008 | Views [358] | Comments [1]
I love it here in Shanghai. After 12 hours on a sleeper train we were here and the sun was shining. We took the subway to a hostel we found a flyer for and its a palace. Easily a 3 star hotel, maybe a four. Our room is huge and has a shower and free ... Read more >
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CHINA | Thursday, 28 Feb 2008 | Views [351]
Having landed on our feet so firmly accomodation wise, and having discovered all that the city itself had to offer, we decided that it was time at last for the Great Wall. Brilliant stuff. We opted to skip the usual hostel organised tours in the hope ... Read more >
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SWEDEN | Wednesday, 27 Feb 2008 | Views [301] | Comments [5]
There at last, and suitably impressed! If i didnt know that they were hosting the Olympics here id think that this had always been one of the most tourist orientated and cleanest places ever. I feel, however , that theyve simply organised one of the ... Read more >
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