Trip: So many missed flight opportunities
There are [39] stories from my trip: So many missed flight opportunities
TURKEY | Friday, 13 Feb 2015 | Views [662]
A lot has changed in 100 years. That was my overwhelming thought as I traveled towards Gallipoli through the snowy Istanbul streets. I traveled in the comfort of a heated van, two other tourists sleeping peacefully around me and my belly full of enough ... Read more >
Tags: anzac, gallipoli, memorial, war
TURKEY | Thursday, 12 Feb 2015 | Views [819] | Comments [1]
I must have looked like a Google street view car for the two days I spent walking up and down all the little alleyways that lead off Istiklal Street. Everything I saw seemed photo worthy. And not just click, click, click now-delete, delete, delete later.... Read more >
Tags: cold, food, istanbul, scam, turkey, wind, women
TURKEY | Tuesday, 10 Feb 2015 | Views [737] | Comments [2]
In seven trips overseas, I have not been able to venture further afield than Asia. I'll let the reader decide whether or not they think the reasons behind that were financial, or geographical in motivation. Whatever they were, it is a new world that ... Read more >
Tags: cold, flights, istanbul, lost, sweets, travel, turkey
TURKEY | Tuesday, 10 Feb 2015 | Photo Gallery
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THAILAND | Sunday, 8 Feb 2015 | Views [962]
If this holiday goes as quickly as what the last five days did, I will be home a week ago. Sure, most of what Julia and I did in Bangkok revolved around the consumption of alcohol, but as soon as we divided up the vast tracks of land that constituted ... Read more >
Tags: bangkok, eating, fish, khao san road, scorpian, selfies, tattoo
THAILAND | Saturday, 7 Feb 2015 | Views [792]
My luck is varying so much on this trip that I think the monsoonal weather is buffeting my karmic scales, and they're dolling out justice and reward like Lady Luck is trying to get herself fired. Nothing is quite going as expected so I'm keeping my plans ... Read more >
Tags: luck, missed flights, river cruise, sickness
INDONESIA | Wednesday, 4 Feb 2015 | Views [765]
After somehow managing to spend about $5 for the entire day visiting the Monas, easily overlooking the fact that Claire fetched beer and paid for it while I cooked dinner, my last day was going to be about getting rid of the remaining Rupiah I had. Even ... Read more >
Tags: dining out, food, jakarta, travel
INDONESIA | Sunday, 1 Feb 2015 | Views [661]
After my close encounter of the non-consensual kind in the last journal, I wasn't feeling as suspicious of Indonesians as what most people would. So far, I would rate them pretty highly in the friendly stakes with the other Asian countries I have visited.... Read more >
Tags: city, jakarta, language, locals, monuments, transport
INDONESIA | Friday, 30 Jan 2015 | Views [625]
For a place that sells non-alcoholic Guinness, Jakarta isn't too bad a city. Zero ABV stout is a grave insult to all I hold dear but if a place didn't have quirks, even offensive ones, there would be no reason to leave home at all. Being the size it ... Read more >
Tags: bogor, ex-pats, gardens, jakarta, rain, tinder, trains
INDONESIA | Friday, 30 Jan 2015 | Photo Gallery
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INDONESIA | Monday, 26 Jan 2015 | Views [703]
PART 1: On the plane. Who ever gets an emergency exit row all to themselves? I've got more space on this plane than I had in my Bangkok hotel room. And this is a tiger flight, infamous for turning coach into a daisy-chain with 3 inches of padding separating ... Read more >
Tags: airports, drugs, friends, language, lost, planes, taxi
THAILAND | Thursday, 22 Jan 2015 | Views [687] | Comments [2]
It's day three in Bangkok and I must confess that this journal is happening largely due to my love of writing more than anything else. I haven't done anything worthy of a journal in itself, but there is always plenty to write about in a place like Bangkok.... Read more >
Tags: beer, driving, friends, roads, travelers
THAILAND | Monday, 19 Jan 2015 | Views [808]
Khao San Road is hedonisms alternative to a float tank. Instead of sensory deprivation, this place is sensory saturation. There are so many distractions here that any well-conceived plans I may have had for this journal are well and truly drowned in ... Read more >
Tags: bangkok, food, money, people
THAILAND | Monday, 19 Jan 2015 | Photo Gallery
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