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407 days ago
well ive been back for nearly a year now, 10 months actually. time sure does fly. Anyways only 2 months now till my next trip, only a short one for just over 3 weeks to japan snowboarding, good crew of 13 going. Anyways will have to update this with more detail....soon like
690 days ago
Well i didnt know if the day would ever come again but surprise surprise im back in Australia!! I made the decision to scoot off back to Cairns and suprise everyone for xmas and new years and needless to say the surprise definately shocked a few people. It came to the stage where i had to return for various reasons, i wasnt allowed back into the uk because of the whole detention fiasco, had no drivers license, work visa applications where proving difficult, and insurance claims to process and I was kinda getting tired of moving and carting my crap to a new place every couple of days. So here I am, but what next? well i wish i knew as well, with the current mining boom over here it would be pretty crazy not to try and get my little piece of that seeing as though even with the exchange rate i get save more money here than i could working in england and getting the pound, so im going to look a few jobs and see if anything looks good, if nothing pans out then sort out all the UK crap and ...
717 days ago
8 million people and 9 million motorcycles, Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) is out of control. Funnily enough one of the main tourist things to do in Saigon is to just cross the road. 100’s of motorcycles speeding down the road you just have to take a brave step out, look straight ahead and keep walking without stopping or flinching and hope you don’t get mowed down. Once you’ve mastered crossing the road you can check out the rest of the place, as usual lots of markets and people trying to sell you useless crap really cheap so we head of to the Ho Chi Minh War Museum. Its like a toy shop for anyone interested in planes, tanks, helicopters, guns and other type stuffs along with a lot of graphic and painful pictures detailing life in Vietnam during the war and the consequences caused from the war. A lot of the photographers during this time died but by taking the pictures ensured people would never forget the horrific images, forests totally flattened, napalm and agent orange chemical ...
737 days ago
Bangkok was like a Canadian reunion, before heading to Cambodia it was shock after shock, first day back and I get a message on facebook, im in Bangkok as well, be at your place in 10. Mr John Murphy the Irish langer, the last person in the world I expected to see and fresh from Melbourne cup arrived for a few days stop on his way back to Ireland. For those of you that don’t know John was the first person I met when I started travelling and lived together for 2months in Vancouver, he’d met my brother in Australia and now we would have our final stand in Bangkok. In true Murphy style we hit the pub, checked out the bars, Kao Sahn Rd and spent time just catching up. Next night out sitting in the street having a drink and someone is standing there with there givin me the finger??? Nate, another one of the first people I met in Vancouver and who also did the snow season in Whistler with me, this is getting way random. My mate Brad arrives next day so we went for a beer and bought some ...
758 days ago
Hello my friend, want tuk tuk where you go, give you good price, want ping pong show?? Maybe I take you to place for Thai massage, very nice with happy special ending very much you like - you guessed it I’ve just arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, got the bus from the airport to Kao Sahn Rd and this is what I was greeted with. After finding a place to stay I head for the world famous Kao Sahn Rd to see what all the fuss was about, just like in the movies with people all over the place, foods stalls, tables full of cooked bugs and insects, neon lights, men dressed as ladies, $2 sucky sucky, every second person trying to sell you a custom made suit that is the best in Thailand, the whole shebang. Got me a Thai Green curry and I must say it was a fine piece of cuisine at that, followed by a stroll around to check out all the different bars, all in all a quiet night, definitely what I needed after that last night with everyone in London for the rugby and other shenanigans. However to ...
