Trip: Oz here I come, the long way
There are [16] stories from my trip: Oz here I come, the long way
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 29 Oct 2007 | Views [597]
Hi All, Well I have made it. After 92 days on the road I arrived back into Melbourne on Saturday monring at the lovely time of 6am. It feels quite weird to be home and knowing that it is not just a holiday but I am sure I will survive. Anyway what ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
SINGAPORE | Saturday, 13 Oct 2007 | Views [477]
Well I am currently in Singapore celebrating the muslim New Year. It is very colourful and has lots of bright lights. Anyway the past week has been pretty crusiey. I have visited Penang, Kuala Lumpor and the protronas twin towers (Quite impressive for ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
MALAYSIA | Saturday, 6 Oct 2007 | Views [409] | Comments [2]
Hi All, Well I am now are qualified diver. Yes, while on Kho Tao I took the plunge and did my PADI open water dive course. At first it wasnt what I expected but once I got going and got to act as a fish, then I loved it. The worse thing was that the ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
THAILAND | Thursday, 27 Sep 2007 | Views [533]
Hi All, Well I am currently in Kanchaanaburi the sight of the bridge over the river kwai and Hell fire pass. I have visited both places and they are definately moving places to visit. It is hard to imagine how much the POWs went through building this ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
CAMBODIA | Tuesday, 18 Sep 2007 | Views [482]
Hi All, Well since I last wrote I have arrived into a new country, Cambodia. Even though it is so close to vietnam it is very different, or as the saying goes same same but different. So whats been happening in the past week, here is a quick run down:... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
VIETNAM | Saturday, 8 Sep 2007 | Views [712] | Comments [5]
Hi All, Well since I last wrote I have pretty much travelled the length of vietnam. I left Hanoi last saturday night and ran into a couple of girls I met the previous day on the trip to Ha Long Bay. It was nice to travel with people I kinda new on a ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
VIETNAM | Saturday, 1 Sep 2007 | Views [738] | Comments [2]
Hi All, Well I am currently in Hanoi, Vietnam and sweating like a pig. It is so humid here that it is unbelievable, but I am sure it will get worse before it gets better. After leaving Beijing on what was the wettest day of the trip so far I ventured ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
CHINA | Sunday, 26 Aug 2007 | Views [671] | Comments [1]
Well it is Sunday and my legs are still bloody sore from the Great Wall Walk that I undertook on thursday. Yes thats right still sore. Anyway as the story goes early thursday morning we ventured to the Jinshanling part of the great wall for a 10km ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 22 Aug 2007 | Views [650] | Comments [1]
Well it is wednesday and I have officially ended my tour of the trans-siberian railway. I completed the 7800 km odd journey over 23 days visiting 6 places along the way. You would think that I would have had enough of long train journeys. Nahh I have ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
MONGOLIA | Thursday, 16 Aug 2007 | Views [747] | Comments [1]
Hi All, Well I hope all is ok where ever you are in the world. Me fine. I am currently in Ulaanbaatar the capital of Mongolia, but a little sad as I am not feeling the love as I dont know if anyone is actually reading this blog as I have not heard from ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Thursday, 9 Aug 2007 | Views [656] | Comments [1]
Hi All, Well I am currently in Irkutsk in the middle of Siberia. We are off on the overnight train to Ule Ulde which is very close to the Mogolia border (which from what I have heard will be very interesting). The past few days have been quite relaxing.... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Saturday, 4 Aug 2007 | Views [1095] | Comments [3]
Hi All, Well I am currently in Ekaterinberg, which is 1800km from moscow. Moscow ended up lovely. Visited the park of the fallen idols, vodka museum, Convent near swan lake, Yeltsins grave and just walked and walked for hours and miles. Meet some ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Wednesday, 1 Aug 2007 | Views [354]
Hi All, Well I have arrived safely in Moscow. The 36hr train ride was not too bad from cologne. I got to share my compartment with a grandmother and her grand-daughter from Belarus. It was quite interesting as they did not speak any english and I did ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
GERMANY | Sunday, 29 Jul 2007 | Views [421] | Comments [1]
Well it is day 2 and the rain is following me. Here in cologne it has pretty much rained all day. To make matters worse all shops here in germany do not open on a sunday. I even saw a mc donalds closed.
So after a late start and a walk around I have ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
GERMANY | Saturday, 28 Jul 2007 | Views [352]
Well the day has finally arrived and I am on my way home to oz. After a very restless night sleep, I was up early to catch my ever reliable 341 bus to waterloo. No problems (I will miss london transport). Got to waterloo in plenty of time, checked ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 28 Jul 2007 | Views [386]
Well it is friday night 10pm and my room is all packed, boxes sent, bags packed. Who would have thought 4 years would have passed so quickly. After a frantic week of saying goodbye to those left here in london, doing last minute sight seeing and cleaning ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road