I seem to have lost a few days somewhere. I arrived in Athens on the morning of the 28th or 29th, made it to my hostel, and then suddenly came down with a fever which knocked me down for about 18 hours. I was more than a little worried, having spent a small amount of [...]
The people I meet have a lot of say on how much fun I’m having. Yesterday, I was a little miserable – rained in, soaking wet, cold, trapped on Rhodes and having just been charged €10 for an hour’s internet access, I was ready to call it a night. Fortunately I was befriended by the [...]
Bangkok spreads out below me. The view from above is prettier, if somewhat worse labelled, than the Nancy Chandler version. Drops of lights pump through her wide arteries. Bangkok is still in party mode, and I think you can tell, even from a few thousand feet.
I float above the floating lights below.
City of Angels [...]
I no longer have a mobile phone. The phone in my hotel room is dead. The staff won’t let me use the phone at reception, but they do ask the hotel next door. They won’t let me use theirs, either. I can’t buy Skype credit due to some bug/quirk/feature of their online billing system. These [...]
This is my second evening in the quite lovely city of Hué (or Huê in the local script, which I haven’t quite got the hang of). The train from Hanoi was a forgettable experience (12 hours on the top of three bunks, mostly in the dark, but not uncomfortable), but I made friends with Roy [...]
It doesn’t take much to remind us that we, the invincible backpackers, are actually quite fragile. My friend Dafne is in the Chiang Mai private hospital with some kind of fever, tonight, after what sounds like an awfully uncomfortable night in Pai. She still has a high fever, and is absolutely exhausted after a few [...]
Today started brilliantly. The full monty to ease my savage hangover (the horrors, as Jo would say, and my first bacon in a week), then back to Hofp Coffee, where I intended to check my mail but instead spent three hours talking to the beautiful, erudite, and all round pretty awesome girl, Mercedes, [...]
Just spent the last three days strolling through the jungle. Had a fantastic time, in general, and got to know my Hua Lumphong friends a little better. Anja, Jo, Dafne and I were together for pretty much all of the time. We were joined for the first day of the trek by the lovely Chris [...]
I spent this morning at the Chilli Club cooking academy with my new friends Dafne (Basque) and Anja (German). We started with a trip to a local market to buy ingredients, before starting on some serious cooking. Between us, we cooked red, green and yellow curries, stir fried vegetables, pork and pad thai, sticky rice, [...]
Oh, these days of bacon.
I’m in Brisbane. I think this is home. Two days ago I flew from Townsville; tonight I fly to Bangkok.
It’s funny how my bacon consumption increases by about 3700% when I’m having a good time. Sunday morning, breakfast with the night’s survivors – a Les Miserables last supper, if you will. [...]