MONGOLIA | Sunday, 9 Sep 2007 | Views [418]
The train trip from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar was certainly something to remember. It's hard to believe the changes in scenery that can happen in over 24 hours. Rolling out of Beijing it was endless apartment block, construction sites and pollution everywhere.... Read more >
CHINA | Saturday, 8 Sep 2007 | Views [427]
Mongolia here I come!!!!!! So my time in China has thankfully almost come to an end. This time tomorrow morning I'll be on the train watching the great wall go past the windows and the horrible grey pollution [china mist] that covers all of china will ... Read more >
CHINA | Thursday, 30 Aug 2007 | Views [553]
what a week it has been. it has felt like the longest and most trying week of my life. Needing to get from beijing to shanghai to get a new russian visa because the dates on my old visa wouldnt cover my new plans, i soon found out that all trains ... Read more >
CHINA | Sunday, 26 Aug 2007 | Views [1000]
I was really looking forward to coming back to china for a week again. I was wondering what it would be like after 10 years, but it seems either my memories of what it was like are wrong, or Beijing has gone downhill since then. Already I'm just wanting ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Monday, 20 Aug 2007 | Views [675] | Comments [1]
Another day, another country. more importantly, another currency with way too many zeros to count. I just cashed a $100 US travellers cheque and got back just under 1.6 MILLION dong. i could barely close my wallet. I now have a new favourite game -... Read more >
CAMBODIA | Thursday, 16 Aug 2007 | Views [885]
well i have just bought some dodgy fireworks for only $3 for our birthday beach party tonight, so who knows if i will survive the night. it's been pretty busy since my last post when we were in siem reap. that night we had another birthday in the ... Read more >
CAMBODIA | Sunday, 12 Aug 2007 | Views [803]
i'm not sure exactly how to describe cambodia. before coming here i knew very little about this country except at Angkor Wat was one of the 7 wonders of the world and that they had just ended years of civil war and there are still massive numbers of ... Read more >
THAILAND | Wednesday, 8 Aug 2007 | Views [1051]
well once again I find myself for some reason in the grimy hole that is Bangkok. For the third and final time I have to endure the relentless offers of tuk tuks, taxi, suit and god knows what else, dodging manic traffic and choking on the pollution.... Read more >
LAOS | Friday, 3 Aug 2007 | Views [877]
Well I have just arrived in the souther Lao town of Pakse after a pretty hard 36 hour journey from Luang Prabang. The overnight bus from there to Vientiene was quite uncomfortable, despite being a "VIP". we witnessed a home-made Lao film that ... Read more >
LAOS | Monday, 30 Jul 2007 | Views [596]
we caught the bus from Vientiene to Vang Vieng on wednesday afternoon. when we went to get on the bus, we found that the aisle was full of sacks containing mysteriously sqishy objects and the back couple of rows were filled with boxes, bikes, plastic ... Read more >
LAOS | Saturday, 28 Jul 2007 | Views [437]
we caught the bus from Vientiene to Vang Vieng on wednesday afternoon. when we went to get on the bus, we found that the aisle was full of sacks containing mysteriously sqishy objects and the back couple of rows were filled with boxes, bikes, plastic ... Read more >
LAOS | Saturday, 28 Jul 2007 | Views [540]
i have just returned from a day of riding around laos on a motorbike. this country is absolutley amazing and i'm in love with it already. cant reccomend it highly enough, but i'll get back to that later. I met a couple of cool people from england ... Read more >
THAILAND | Sunday, 22 Jul 2007 | Views [422]
now back in bangkok temporalily, before heading north-east to laos on monday. I think that i'm a little bit glad to be leaving Thailand for a while, its just about worn me out. Since my last post, I went south to Ko Chang, with some of the guys from ... Read more >
THAILAND | Monday, 16 Jul 2007 | Views [534]
well makhampom is sadly over. It was such an amazing experience and i cant really believe that i have just done everything i have done in the past two weeks. i have learnt so much not just about theatre and community development but about myself and ... Read more >
THAILAND | Friday, 13 Jul 2007 | Views [339]
it's been a pretty busy week. since we got back from the hill tribes we have been working on devising a production that we will perform to the two hill tribe villages we stayed in, the local village and to a couple hundred kids on childrens day. ... Read more >
THAILAND | Tuesday, 10 Jul 2007 | Views [759]
on saturday morning, we headed off early to our respective hill tribes. I was headed to the PangDeng village, only about 10min away from Makhampom. The village is a Dalla-ann community, who migrated to Thailand in the 1970's after begging the king ... Read more >
THAILAND | Friday, 6 Jul 2007 | Views [2084]
I thought that I posted a blog the other day, but it doesnt seem to be on here. i'll just have to write it all again. what a big few days it has been. it now feels like i have been here for months, even though it was only been one week. since that ... Read more >
THAILAND | Sunday, 1 Jul 2007 | Views [2059]
Sawatdee Khrap! so we have a workshop in the morning, then we break for lunch at 12 and dont do anything else until 4pm cause it's too dam hot! loving it though, we can sleep, go swimming, ride our bikes into town for a massage and generally just ... Read more >
THAILAND | Saturday, 30 Jun 2007 | Views [303]
i have arrived at makhampom in ciang dao. it is absolutley amazing here and we are going to be doing some really great things with local kids and hill tribes. we have our own bike that we can ride around the village and we sleep in a room looking ... Read more >
THAILAND | Thursday, 28 Jun 2007 | Views [502]
We got out of Bangkok today and saw some real Thailand. I'm a bit over Bangkok, it’s all just a bit too much. We caught a train to a town a few hours away that was full of monkies everywhere. It was pretty funny. Then it started to rain and we all got ... Read more >
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