SOUTH KOREA | Wednesday, 9 Mar 2011 | Views [668]
So I think we have had 3 weeks of Korean strangeness so far. The orientation was interesting and frantic from the minute we arrived at the airport in Incheon we were rushed through the EPIK program intake thing, and bundled out of the terminal building ... Read more >
NEPAL | Friday, 2 Jul 2010 | Views [740]
we have been away from kathmandu for what seems like a month, im not really sure how long its been, maybe a week... our course finished on friday, and we had a thousand course graduation dinner of nepali food with rice wine, and for some reason, sangria.... Read more >
NEPAL | Saturday, 19 Jun 2010 | Views [395]
this city is getting a little dull. we have been here now for just over 3 weeks, and the constant noise, pollution, and lack of open spaces is beginning to do my head in. our course has 1 week left, but it looks to be a busy one. starting tomorrow (sunday!!!!?) ... Read more >
NEPAL | Monday, 7 Jun 2010 | Views [373]
after leaving singapore airport, nepal really seems like another world. five or so abandoned and nasty looking aircraft litter the right side of the runway, one of them overturned. there is something about an aircraft with its wheels in the air that is ... Read more >
MALAYSIA | Tuesday, 2 Jun 2009 | Views [385]
so we have been stumbling around in the 1pm heat going from place to place trying to find an internet cafe that isnt closed. and this one has air con and warcraft 3 for some reason that i cant really fathom. we are in a place called taman negara ... Read more >
THAILAND | Monday, 18 May 2009 | Views [381]
hello!. i havent written anything for quite a while because we have been in chailand on an eyeland , and the internet has been prohibitively expensive to use. so a rapidfire update of our travels since penang
which i think was the last place ... Read more >
MALAYSIA | Friday, 8 May 2009 | Views [414]
well we just completed a savage burn around our current home island,
palau langkawi on our rented motorbikes. the aim was an expedition out
to a huge cable car gondola thing that we didnt go on yesterday because
it disappeared into a cloud bank, ... Read more >
MALAYSIA | Wednesday, 6 May 2009 | Views [924] | Comments [1]
Lissa: We left our Penang guesthouse at 7.30am (far too early for backpackers) and arrived at the Port just in time for the morning monsoon to come belting down. We huddled under a leaky marquee with 50 other tourists while the boat company sorted ... Read more >
MALAYSIA | Friday, 1 May 2009 | Views [1216]
well we have spent 4 or 5 or 6 pretty sweet days exploring around palau pangkor (thats pretty close to the correct spelling). they have no Internet except for in the chinamans guesthouse, and we didnt want to give him any more money than a severe example ... Read more >
MALAYSIA | Monday, 27 Apr 2009 | Views [426]
im sitting in the lounge at fathers guesthouse in the cameron
highlands, drinking my way through 2 liters of oran jus and
eavesdropping the conversation across from me where the girl is just
telling someone about how she accidentally took magic mushrooms ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 24 Apr 2009 | Views [444] | Comments [1]
well after much dilly dallying around about the place we have
arrived in Kuala Lumpur. melbourne was cool, but somehow anticlimatic
because it felt like we returning home rather than leaving on an
expedition. we spent a few days cruising the old favourite ... Read more >
