THAILAND | Thursday, 30 Aug 2012 | Views [557]
Waiting at Sydney Airport, July 11, 2012, with far too much time on our
hands, I start to panic that this trip should have been booked by a travel
agent who knew what to do. My second trip internationally, first to a country
with a first language ... Read more >
INDIA | Wednesday, 15 Aug 2012 | Views [780]
India is one country which has always been on my list of countries
‘not to visit’.
Reason due to hearing
about the horror stories of extreme food poisoning, the poverty, beggars,
pollution, crowds and the 1001 parasites which infest your ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 3 Aug 2012 | Views [646]
Chinas weather was so much better than the weather in Hong Kong. It
was still really hot, but it was dry and if we were lucky, some days it would
be really windy and cool as well.
The next couple of days where packed with ... Read more >
Tags: forbiddencity, summerpalace, templeofheaven, thegreatwall, tiananmensquare
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 3 Aug 2012 | Views [774]
One of the best birthday presents I’ve ever received, has to be my
best friends present this year: A trip to Hong Kong and China! It all seemed so
unreal, it wasn’t until we landed in Hong Kong that it actually hit me: I was
in a new ... Read more >
Tags: bigbuddha, disneyland, hongkong, itsasmallworld, laser-lightshow, thepeaktram
HONG KONG | Friday, 3 Aug 2012 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 31 May 2012 | Views [610]
There is nothing quite like
arriving in a city on the other side of the world, by yourself. Much to the embarrassment
my mother was putting me through at the airport, I was eventually allowed to
board a plane and leave on my ... Read more >
THAILAND | Tuesday, 29 May 2012 | Views [954]
After getting back into Bangkok from Laos I had a few days to kill before Lisa my mate from Ireland was arriving, so I went up to Ayuthaya, one of the former capitals and one of the greatest greatest cities in Siam. I was there in 1997 and remembered ... Read more >
Tags: buddist, holiday, shopping
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 23 Mar 2012 | Views [937]
I love the tropics.
That hot stinking humidity that envelops every pore on your
body. That wafting scent of thickness that only South East Asia can produce
with muggy resolve.
It was an ordinary night, so ordinary that it was abnormal. That
strange ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 12 Mar 2012 | Views [855]
Now now, before you drift off into your repressed memory of
how you woke up one morning nursing a hangover and regretting that old adage no-one’s ugly after 2am..., the topic at
hand is NOT lady-boys.
As we’ve all geared up
and stand there ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 12 Jan 2012 | Views [723]
OK…so a journal you say for this Dec KPI
business!!! Hmmm!!! A little odd I thought at first. While I do see the whole
point about people getting to know you a bit better I was still a
little…well....reserved about the whole process.... Read more >
VIETNAM | Tuesday, 10 Jan 2012 | Photo Gallery
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VIETNAM | Tuesday, 10 Jan 2012 | Views [4036]
I spent three months backpacking through South East Asia
earlier this year, spending three weeks in Vietnam. We moved from south to
north, jumping on nightbus and tuk tuk and taxi and motorbike, making my way
through all the usual backpacker ... Read more >
PHILIPPINES | Monday, 19 Dec 2011 | Views [978] | Video
When the all-girl Korean band Wondergirls released there
soon-to-be pop classic Nobody in
2009, somehow I doubt they’d envisage it would become a pole dancing anthem.
Just like marvelling at the Borobudur Temples in Java, watching
the ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 30 Nov 2011 | Photo Gallery
Maui
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USA | Monday, 28 Nov 2011 | Views [1713]
We
arrived in LA for our stop over after a long flight, we were lucky that our
hotel would let us check in as we arrived early morning, despite the general
rule about getting adjusted to the time difference, we fell asleep.
... Read more >
Tags: driving, usa
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 31 Oct 2011 | Views [461]
In the words of INXS... achtung baby! This
month's Germany themed staff cultural presentation centred around
Oktoberfest, jam-packed with beer wenches, great food, chicken dance
competition and even a WWII themed treasure hunt. Special thanks ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 28 Oct 2011 | Photo Gallery
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AUSTRALIA | Friday, 28 Oct 2011 | Views [4335]
At World Nomads HQ, the Pond is lucky enough to be located on Level 6 - it's sunny and spacious and probably most important of all we love to celebrate. We celebrate Fridays, we celebrate staff meetings (usually with some form of ethnic food and dress, ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 28 Oct 2011 | Views [474]
Part 2 Hawaii
10 hours on a plane – no on demand entertainment and no food
for free or for vegetarians! But we got there – Honoloulu...ahhhhhhhhhhh. New
York was great, but we were ready to relax!
I love Hawaiian airports, they are an ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 28 Oct 2011 | Views [625]
Part 1 New York, New York!
After 32 hours of very unpleasant air travel I arrived in
New York. I’d been subject to overbooked flights, nearby passengers who got
drunk and sick (gross), a side trip to Boston where we sat on the tarmac for ... Read more >