Trip: So many missed flight opportunities
There are [39] stories from my trip: So many missed flight opportunities
THAILAND | Tuesday, 31 Mar 2015 | Views [908]
A holiday isn't really over until you are back on home soil, but Bangkok is as close to home as it gets, geographically and sentimentally. It is very familiar territory and a great place to unwind and transition back into the Broome heat of my real home ... Read more >
Tags: bangkok, friends, home, tattoo
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | Friday, 27 Mar 2015 | Views [728]
Abu Dhabi.......Perhaps that is all I should say. It is almost all I can say, because my memory and camera were rendered redundant the entire time. 'Abu Dhabi' was something that was said a lot, as a justification for whatever crazy shit was going on ... Read more >
Tags: abu dhabi, alcohol, ex-pats, friends, music, shisha
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | Friday, 27 Mar 2015 | Photo Gallery
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IRELAND | Thursday, 26 Mar 2015 | Views [792]
The next morning I woke up feeling so dastardly that Laura said I was looking very Irish, ie. Green. Half a slice of toast made me go white for awhile and had I doused myself in fake tan like all the pikie women in Ireland did, I'd be a flesh version ... Read more >
Tags: cliffs of mohar, friends, glendalough, ireland, road trip
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 25 Mar 2015 | Views [811]
Let me tell you about the luck of the Irish. They are incredibly lucky to live in such a beautiful country. They are lucky that they are all incredibly friendly people. They are lucky their famously cold weather played nice for the entire time or I could ... Read more >
Tags: doolin, friends, ireland, pubs galway, road trip
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 25 Mar 2015 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 21 Mar 2015 | Views [885]
Scotland has so thoroughly pampered my senses that writing about it soon after leaving, I feel like I should be relaxing with a cigarette and praying the neighbours were asleep. 'Touch' is probably the only sensation that hasn't been lured into loving ... Read more >
Tags: edinburgh, highlands, music, scotland, tours, whisky
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 17 Mar 2015 | Views [927]
Some cities grow on you. London crept into my favour like its cold that crept into my bones. Some cities are just instantly spellbinding. Istanbul was breath-taking from the first moment I started heading in the wrong direction from the bus stop. Edinburgh ... Read more >
Tags: arthurs seat, carlton hill, castle, dorm, edinburgh, royal mile
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 15 Mar 2015 | Views [847] | Comments [1]
Edinburgh was always meant to be a milestone. I thought it was going to be the site of my 40 th birthday party extravaganza but an inexplicable (Word of the week) desire to freeze the nuggets saw me here two months too early. So instead, this journal ... Read more >
Tags: edinburgh
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 14 Mar 2015 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 12 Mar 2015 | Views [936]
Ask any Australian about Jersey and the only thing they can think of is the cows. The small island is part of the UK, but just off the edge of France with French road names, is full of Polish people and with Parishes (or countys) like St. Johns, St. ... Read more >
Tags: castle, chip butty, cow, dolmars, friends, jersey, sunsets
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 10 Mar 2015 | Views [903]
Three days to see London? Really? That is just flipping the bird to the city of double-decker buses, that lady that graces all our currency, Artic weather, millions of rude pedestrians but overly polite drivers, amazing architecture and my heritage. ... Read more >
Tags: beach, brighton, camden, cricket, england, london, lords
SPAIN | Tuesday, 10 Mar 2015 | Views [747]
Unfortunately this is not the first time I have had to start a journal with a warning, and if you are a long term reader, either previous warnings were heeded and you live in ignorant bliss, or warnings were ignored and you're ok with the stupid things ... Read more >
Tags: illicit
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 10 Mar 2015 | Photo Gallery
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SPAIN | Thursday, 5 Mar 2015 | Views [742]
Mesmerised by the Sagrada Familiar and up to my third eye in Gaudis incredible vision, I decided to double down on the crazy and see where it lead. Describing my visit to Park Quell was actually intended to be a part of the previous journal, but after ... Read more >
Tags: barcelona, bike, brewdog, gaudi, olympics, spain, tinder, walking
SPAIN | Monday, 2 Mar 2015 | Views [776] | Comments [1]
I'm speechless. As I was born with the gift of the gab though, there was only the briefest of pauses after that first sentence. I visited Gaudi's still uncompleted masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia, and I feel I need not go into another church again, ... Read more >
Tags: barcelona, church, gaudi, sagrada familia, spain
SPAIN | Wednesday, 25 Feb 2015 | Views [1026] | Comments [1]
Something itched under my armpit. Before I knew it, there was a strange sensation of moisture on my skin. It was sweat, something my body had forgotten how to do. It's not like I had returned to Broome where sweating is as normal, and as necessary as ... Read more >
Tags: barcelona, beer, churches, heat, markets, parades, spain
SPAIN | Wednesday, 25 Feb 2015 | Photo Gallery
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NETHERLANDS | Tuesday, 24 Feb 2015 | Views [1139]
Amsterdam is a Utopian wonderland for your average teenage stoner. Drugs are either legal or tolerated. Bikes are the main form of transportation so it's easy to go get munchies without being busted DWI. Dutch potato chips enjoy world renown. Prostitution ... Read more >
Tags: amsterdam, churches, health, netherlands, weed
NETHERLANDS | Tuesday, 24 Feb 2015 | Photo Gallery
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FRANCE | Sunday, 22 Feb 2015 | Views [836]
Disney and the Doors in one day.
Paris hadn't even been a part of my original plan. Europe is full of so many amazing cities that Paris was just going to be one of those ones that got over-looked, largely because I suspected it would be full of French ... Read more >
Tags: art, boilly, canova, france, louvre, notre dame, paris, the doors
FRANCE | Wednesday, 18 Feb 2015 | Views [894]
To be in Paris, the city of Love, on Valentines Day is the sort of smaltz that Hallmark wish they could encapsulate in some consumable way. I imagine a significant amount of romancing happens on your average day for the city to have such an appelation, ... Read more >
Tags: classical music, crepes, eiffel tower, france, friends, paris
FRANCE | Wednesday, 18 Feb 2015 | Photo Gallery
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TURKEY | Wednesday, 18 Feb 2015 | Views [862]
Every day in Instabul feels being lost in a fairy tale. Fairy tales don't come cheap it seems, and ticking off all the sights could have bought me another backpacks worth of goods from the Grand Bazaar. And getting lost can be just as costly, as I found ... Read more >
Tags: ayasophia, basicilia cistern, dervish, istanbul, topkapi palace, turkey
TURKEY | Tuesday, 17 Feb 2015 | Views [848] | Comments [1]
Judging Istabul by Istiklal street is like going to the Taj Mahal and judging it by the garden out the front. I may have been a bit too premature with my praise for Istanbul, literally, but after a couple of days in Sultanahment, I don't think my approbation ... Read more >
Tags: istanbul, lost, mosque, shopping
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