Posts Tagged ‘airport’
In chess, travel on
17 May 2010 tagged airport, bascarsija, beer, book, bosnia, breakfast, burek, bus station, catholic cathedral, cemetary, chess, chess set, christina, church, coffee, europe, guard of honour, hotel, ice cream, kosovo, latin bridge, luggage, martyr's cemetary, montenegro, mosque, motorbike, mountain road, museum, ouzo, park, parks, photo, pigeon square, podgorica, pristina, raki, sarajevo, siege, sleep, ticket, train, tram, travel, tunnel, zagreb with no comments
day 426 – we slept in and then walked to town for breakfast. we found a nice little outdoor cafe and bought some food. the guy at the next table, who already seemed drunk, bought us some raki (local ouzo) and beer … at 10.30am. after a few of those, we were tired and a [...]
In travel on
4 May 2010 tagged airport, al fatih mosque, argument, australia, baby, baby chickens, bahrain, bazaar, birthday, boarding, bombs, breakfast, bus, bus driver, canada, castle, chick peas, chicks, cold shower, couple, crying, darius, diary, dinar, dollar, dormitory, drugs, felafel, fight, food, football, france, grotto, homosexual, illegal immigrants, immigration, incredibly homosexual hotel employee, iran, iraq, koran, lahore, magnifying glass, manama, market, mirror, mohammad, money, muslims, national museum, officer, pakistan, persepolis, photos, pouch, prophet, pussy, qu'ran, qu'ran museum, rice, ruins, saddam hussein, samosas, sandra, security, shiite, shiraz, shoes, souk, spain, sunni, taxi, tea, tomb, tour, travel, upgrade, verses, visa, yadz with no comments
day 366 – i had an early start, checked out and headed to the airport. the idiot security officer poked holes in my shoes (checking for bombs or drugs or some shit) which pissed me off. in total i had to take off my shoes three times and the security people were arseholes. in the [...]
In buddhism, travel on
11 March 2010 tagged airport, armoured personnel carrier, army, baksheesh, book, canal, caretaker, chowkhang gompa, coffee, computer, dal lake, email, fish temple, flight, floating store, french wife, gompa, hill, hindu, horse, hotel, houseboat, india, indian, indian archaeological society, internet cafe, islam, island, kashmir, kashmir valley, ladakh, leh, marijuana, military, mohammad, monastery, money, mosque, mountain, movie, muslim, pahalgan, paulo cohelo, people, photo, photography, photos, picture, riding, runway, school, sledding, snacks, snow, soldiers, srinigar, stars, strike, temple, the zahir, tibetan restaurant, victoria, view, weather with no comments
day 346 – it snowed like mad the whole day. after breakfast i walked around town taking photographs of the snow. it was a lot of fun because people were happy to let me take their picture – even though it was snowing and freezing cold. i returned to chowkhang gompa and took some photos [...]
In buddhism, travel on
11 March 2010 tagged acute mountain sickness, airport, altitude, ams, beanie, book, buddhism, buddhist, ceremony, chess, children, chowkhang gompa, cold, dalai lama, email, flight, goa, gompa, heater, hemis gompa, ice hockey, india, internet cafe, jacket, kashmir, kids, korean monastery, ladakh, lama, leh, leh palace, market, monastery, namgyal tsemo gompa, palace, paolo cohelo, photograph, prayer, retread, shay gompa, skating, skating rink, snow, soma gompa, stok gompa, taxi, tea, temple, the zahir, thiksay gompa, thukpa, tibetan market, tour, tyre with no comments
day 341 – i got started early for my flight to leh. at 5am i got a taxi to the airport but had to stop along the way when the taxi shredded a tyre. retreads are very common in india and the quality is, in a word, shit. 10 minutes later we were going again [...]
In australia, buddhism, travel on
28 February 2010 tagged 1984, airport, apple, around the world in 80 days, australia, beef masala, beer, bookshop, breakfast, buddhist, burma, business class, cold shower, corn, dharma, dinner, dorm, email, flight, fudge, gaya, george orwell, hotel, hotel maria, india, jules verne, kimchi bokeumbab, kolkata, korea, koreans, loud speaker, market, money, mosque, mumbai, myanmar, package, sleeping bag, street stall, taxi, the bastard of istanbul, train, vip, yangon with no comments
day 316 – i had breakfast and talked to dave for a while, then started my new book ‘the bastard of istanbul’. the book annoyed me (focusing on how much armenians hate turks and visa versa) and i refused to read more. i’m sure the book has a happy ending and they all grow to [...]
In buddhism, travel on
3 February 2010 tagged airport, amapura, bangkok, battery pack, beer, blanket, boat, breakfast, bridge, burma, bus, bus ticket, camera, coffee, cold, customs, dhl, dinner, drunk, flight, hammock, horse cart, hotel, ice cream book, india, indian embassy, koreans, longyes, mandalay, market, monks, myanmar, new years day, new years eve, noodles, passport photos, razors, shampoo, soap, sunglasses, sunset, taxi, temple, thailand, tshirt, u myo aung, ubein bridge, visa, yangon with no comments
day 306 – new years eve – the day began with breakfast and chess online, after which i checked out and headed to the airport. i flew to burma and met some other tourists (two koreans and a swiss guy) and we all agreed to share a taxi to town. i had a few errands [...]
In buddhism, photography stuff, travel on
25 December 2009 tagged airport, beer, beggar, boardwalk, book, breafkast, buddhism, buddhist, burmese, bus, canada, chatting, chess, christina, coffee, dinner, drunk, email, event, flea market, flight, foreigners, fourfourtwo, guesthouse, hangover, internet, junk, kl central, korea, kota kinabalu, kuala lumpur, lonely planet, long bar, long island ice tea, lunch, magazines, malaysia, margarita, market, mcdonalds, muffin, photography, photography book store, photos, portrait, post, raffle's hotel, razamataz, sabah, singapore, sreet market, starbucks, steve mccurry, street cafe, temple, ticket, tourist, train, travel, travel agents, waiter, wifi with no comments
day 291 – i got another early start and headed to kl central station. i bought a flight to kota kinabalu and a return train ticket to singapore. it was a busy morning, so i raced back to my hotel and checked out. i stored my bag and returned to the train station to make [...]
In australia, computers & internet, korea, photography stuff, travel on
30 October 2009 tagged a league, airport, australia, barbeque, bbq, beer, breakfast, brisbane, brisbane roar, cd reader, computer, craig, cruise ship, football, frame, garden city, inyoung, linux, macadamia, netbook, nuts, photo, shopping, soccer, suncorp stadium, ubuntu, wedding, windows with no comments
day 231 – i went to garden city to do some shopping. whilst messing about with my dual boot, i accidentally deleted the grub boot files, meaning that i couldn’t run either windows or ubuntu. my netbook doesn’t have a cd reader, so i thought i’d have to buy one to fix my computer. we [...]
In australia, korea, movies, travel on
24 October 2009 tagged aaron, airport, beer, brisbane, bus, canada, christina, cinema, co-workers, coffee, colleagues, craig, customs, family, flight, immigration, incheon, ipswich, kepco, kimchi jiggae, korea, lunch, motorbike, movie, one week, packing, photography, pizza, plane, quarantine, restaurant, seoul, seoul photo club, sleep, sydney, tom, transfer, travel, wedding, wine with no comments
day 211 – after a sleep-in, i went out to a korean restaurant for lunch. i just can’t get enough kimchi jiggae during my stay in korea. after that, christina and i went to see the movie ‘one week’ at the cinema. it’s a really good movie actually. it was a bit weird at the [...]
In computers & internet, rants, travel on
23 October 2009 tagged airport, bank, bar, beer, bookmark, chess, chopsticks, christina, coex, computer, czech restaurant, dinner, email, flight, hp, korea, mongolia, security, seoul, souvenir, technomart, travel, ulaan bataar with no comments
day 196 – i spent the morning online, catching up with email and chess games. then in the afternoon i went out with paula to the souvenir shop. i bought a few gifts for friends, including a couple of chess sets. when i returned to the hotel i realised that one chess set was missing [...]
In buddhism, rants, travel on
7 October 2009 tagged airport, bananas, beer, bracelet, cafe, chengdu, china, coffee, computer, diary, dinner, employees, flight, friends, grafitti, group, guide, headphones, hostel, hotel, ipod, japanese, lhasa, lunch, mall, meat, military, monasteries, night, online, photography, photos, pictures, police, potala palace, rain, rickshaw, tattoo, temples, tibet, town, train, travel, wifi, xian with no comments
day 176 – i spent the morning at the hotel an said goodbye to hokuto (he was flying back to chengdu). i had two more days in lhasa by myself, but the guide had to go to the airport with hokuto, so i just spent the afternoon wandering around town. i wanted to take some [...]
In travel on
13 August 2009 tagged airport, australia, australian, beer, black hmong, boat, bracelet, breakfast, brits, buffet breakfast, cat ba island, cat cat waterfall, cataract, catholic, catholic church, chess, china, chinese, clothes, coffee, computer, costume, craig, crucifix, cruise, dinner, drink, duckpack, editing, engine, eye, facebook, foreigners, format, girl, guide, halong bay, handicrafts, hanoi, hike, hiking, hmong, homestay, hotel, illiterate, junk, kayak, korea, limestone caves, mall, market, matilda, mobile phone, monkey island, mosquito net, motorbikes, mountain vilage, nanning, netbook, operating system, pool table, portraits, privacy, red hmong, rice paddies, sapa, shower, software, souvenirs, storage, sunset, swimming, ticket, tourists, track, train, vietnam, village, weather, wifi, windows, women, xp with 1 comment
day 156 – today was the last day on the island, and i had to leave early. after breakfast we checked out and were met by a boat which would take us to halong bay. we crossed cat ba island and ended up on a chinese style ‘junk’ which would be home for the final [...]
In travel on
13 August 2009 tagged airport, bag, beach, bike, boris, breakfast, bungalows, bus, cat ba island, chess set, commission, dinner, drinking, email, guests, hai phang, halong bay, hanoi, harbour, hire car, hotel, kayak, laos, minsk, money, monkey island, shells, skimming stones, snorkelling, sunset, swimming, travel agency, vietnam with no comments
day 151 – i changed to another hotel and spent the day wandering the streets of hanoi. i bought a small storage bag (for stuff to take home) and found the travel agency that was responsible for arranging my trip to halong bay. i checked the itinerary and booked a car to take me to [...]
In australia, humorous, travel on
10 June 2009 tagged airport, apple, australia, australian consulate, australian embassy, backpack, balls, bangkok, beer, book, bookstore, boom, burma, camera, camera bag, candles, chiang mai, equipment, flirting, girl, gstring, himalaya, hotel, istudio, kata, khao san road, lapdance, lowepro, lunch, mandalay, mbm, naked, nepal, nude, passport, pat pong, photography, photos, ping pong bat, ping pong show, ploy, red light district, rudyard kipling, ryan, shinya, shopping, skytrain, sleep, steven galloway, straw, strip club, survey, taxi, thai, thailand, the cellist of sarajevo, theatre restaurant, tip, topless, trek, trick, tshirt, vagina, whistle with 1 comment
the travel diary for days 61 to 88 can be found under himalaya trek. day 89 – i enjoyed a rare sleep in and watched some tv in my hotel room. i checked out and waited for ryan and boom in the restaurant attached to the hotel. due to a mixup, i didn’t realise that [...]
In buddhism, humorous, travel on
5 June 2009 tagged airport, anniversary, australian embassy, ayutthaya, bangkok, beer, british council, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, burma, day trip, elephants, feet, fight, flight, flight attendant, foreigner, hammock, happy ending, hotels, hotodg, indian, jobs, khao san road, king, massage, music, myanmar, naked, pagodas, passport, piercing, rubber plug, seat, siam, statues, taxi, teachers, temples, thailand, throne, towel, travel agent, underwear, wifi, yangon with 2 comments
day 59 – today was going to be a busy day and i got started early. i walked down to the australian embassy first, to ask about passport renewal. they told me that it’s a 10 day process and $220. i obviously don’t have that kind of time, so i went back to british council. [...]