Trip: Adventures in the Pond
There are [12] stories from my trip: Adventures in the Pond
INDIA | Wednesday, 15 Aug 2012 | Views [785]
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 >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 31 May 2012 | Views [612]
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 [955]
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 [940]
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 [861]
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 [726]
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 [4038]
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 [982] | 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 >
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 31 Oct 2011 | Views [463]
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 [4339]
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 >