Posts Tagged ‘beer’
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8 March 2010 tagged acute mountain sickness, altitude, ams, apple pie, bakery, beer, beggar, cable, coffee, connaught place, delhi, diamox, dinner, flights, house boat, hp service centre, india, internet, kashmir, killing time, ladakh, leh, liverpool game, non-genuine, pakistan, pakistan embassy, pakistan visa, passport, phone, photo, power surge, rooftop bar, srinigar, tickets, underwear, washing with no comments
day 336 — basically, i’m killing time until i get my pakistan visa. i can’t leave delhi without it. so i have been spending my days as lazily as possible, trying not to spend too much money.
i bought some underwear and spent much of the day online. i had dinner at a rooftop bar which was […]
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3 March 2010 tagged anjuna, anjuna beach, anjuna markets, atm, baksheesh, band, bed bugs, beer, bom jesus, breakfast, bribe, chapel, chapora fort, chess set, church, cigars, coast road, corruption, delhi, diary, elsa, email, fine, france, goa, helmet, hotel, india, licence, live music, movie, mumbai, old goa, panaji, patron saint, police, salvation army hostel, scooter, spain, st christopher, st francis of asissi, sunset, taxi stand, tibetan food, ticket, tourists, train, tshirt, vagator, village, wednesday with no comments
day 326 — i arrived in goa in the morning and headed to the taxi stand to arrange transport to anjuna (the town in goa where i’d decided to stay). at the stand i met a french girl called elsa who’d been on the bunk directly beneath me. we hadn’t spoken on the train, but […]
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2 March 2010 tagged 1984, bazaar, bed bugs, beer, breakfast, cafe, caves, christian, commission, complaint, dinner, dormitory, elephant island, entrance fee, ferry, france, goa, grottos, guns, hotel, india, kolkata, laundry, lonely planet, lookout point, manager, mattress, mumbai, ngo, salvation army hostel, scam, shave, sleeping bag, station, street market, taxi, ticket, train, wifi, windows with no comments
day 321 — it was cold on the train and i had difficulty sleeping. without a sleeping bag i had nothing to cover me or protect me from the cold wind that came in through the gap in the windows. the morning was better and i sat in the sun reading my book and looking […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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3 February 2010 tagged aids, bangkok, beer, blog, breakfast, brunei, christmas, christmas day, clown fish, coral reef, course, dinner, felafel, ferry, flight, guide book, hiv, hospital, hostel, hotel, island, khaosan road, kota kinabalu, kuala lumpur, malaysia, mark zusak, money, moray eel, online, palau labuan, pizza, rash, scuba diving, sea turtle, soi cowboy, sukhumvit, taxi, test, thailand, the book thief, travel, turtle with no comments
day 300 — christmas day — i woke up early and got the first ferry back to kota kinabalu. i arrived at my hotel and spent the afternoon online updating my blog. it’s christmas day! what other excuse do i need to be lazy?
day 301 — i spent the day finishing my blog, playing online chess […]
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25 December 2009 tagged air asia, alcohol, australia, bandar seri begawan, bangar, bangkok, beer, boat, borneo, breakfast, brunei, bsb, canal, carlsberg, chicken, cigar, city, dominican republic, duty free, email, ferry, flights, guesthouse, island, japan, kimchi jiggae, korea, korean restaurant, kota kinabalu, malaysia, mall, martini, memorial, mosque, museum, muslim, palau labuan, photos, prayer, river, satay, soldiers, sunset, surrender, travel, travel agent, visa, worldwar, ww2, wwii with no comments
day 296 — in the morning i walked into town again. i checked a couple of travel agents and realised my plan (to fly to bangkok via brunei) was going to be too expensive. i gave up and walked back across town. on the way i found a korean restaurant and decided to grab some […]
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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 […]
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25 December 2009 tagged 85mm, american psycho, atm, banana pancake, beer, book, breakfast, bret eaton elis, bukit lawang, burma, burmese refugee, bus, camera, chinatown, christina, dinner, email, embassy official, f1.8, ferry, flight, food, georgetown, hindu temple, hotel, indian visa, indonesia, labyrinth, lake, lens, linux, lunch, mail, malaysia, mcdonalds, medan, minibus, money, myanmar, myanmar embassy, nikon, orangutan rehabilitation centre, parapat, passport, petronas twin towers, photographs, post office, rain, reggae bar, street cafe, taxi, terminal, the beach, ticket, tourist, travel, tshirt, tuk tu, united nations refugee status, visa, waiter, wifi with no comments
day 286 — being on the lake made me feel lazy (well, lazier than usual) and i decided to stay and do some reading. i sold my copy of ‘the beach’ (which was actually very, very good) and snagged a copy of ‘american psycho’ by bret eaton elis. i’ve read it before, but it was […]
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25 December 2009 tagged angry, animals, beer, book, breakfast, bukittingi, bus, chess, company, cop, email, fight, hotel, indonesia, lake, laundry, markets, mosquito net, padang, parapat, passengers, police, police station, sleep, sumatra, taxi, tourist haven, tuk tuk, wifi, zoo with no comments
day 281 — today i spent the entire day on the bus. it was a long, boring trip. i managed to get some sleep a few times and i wore ear plugs for most of the trip (to drown out the indo-pop that they insisted on playing at full volume). i talked to the bus […]
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16 December 2009 tagged bali, beer, bus station, cafe, cats, coffee, crowd, dancing, dinner, dirty, drunk, ferry, garbage, girlfriend, hotel, indonesia, jakarta, jl jaksa, karaoke bar, kids, korea, monument, mustang sally, noodles, photography, photography club, rain, rubbish, scavenging, sick, singing, slum, spc, street market, sumatra, taxi, tom, traffic, yulia with no comments
day 276 — i spent the day at the hotel and café. i had started feeling a little sick again so i didn’t want to go too far. i messed around online all day.
day 277 — i felt much better today, but i was reluctant to stray too far from the hotel. i stayed in the […]
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16 December 2009 tagged beer, beheaded, blanket, borobodur, breakfast, buddhism, buddhist, chess, coffee, couchsurfing, drunk, fighting, gay, hindu, indonesia, jakarta, java, jogjakarta, lookout point, massage, mosquitoes, noodles, phone card, pool, prambanan, queers, redevelopment, sick, statue, stomachache, swim, temple, tour, train, train ticket, travel, tuk tuk, wifi, yulia with no comments
day 271 — the trip to borobodur required a 4am start. there were only three of us on the tour and when the car picked me up we headed straight off. after an hour we arrived at the ‘lookout point’ which was where we were supposed to watch the sunrise. we walked up a steep […]
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16 December 2009 tagged active volcano, bali, beer, bemo, borobodur, bromo, buddhist, buffet breakfast, camera, cemero lawang, competition, dancing, dinner, drinking, expats, ferry, fight, finals, gilimanuk, hindu, homestay, hotels, indonesia, indonesian tourists, island, java, jogjakarta, laundry, lookout point, lunch, medewi, party, photography, photos, police station, polish, prambanan, presentation, probolinggo, scuffling, singing, sulphur, sunburned, sunrise, sunset, surabaya, surfing, temple, travel, travel stories, travelers, trishaw, volcanoes, walk with no comments
day 266 — the previous day i’d seen some signs advertising the ‘medewi surf comp’ which was a local event organised by a few expats. the whole idea was to promote surfing and improve the medewi community. after breakfast, i found the organisers and offered to phởtograph the day for them. they jumped at the […]
In australia, travel on
16 December 2009 tagged air north, australia, bali, beach, beer, bemo, blackout, cafe, chess, chicken satay, coffee, darwin, delay, denpasar, dorms, drinking, flight, homestay, hotel, immigration, jetstar, kakadu trek, kennis, kuta, lonely planet, medewi, minibus, negara, nightmare, passengers, photography, room mate, singapore, sleep, surf town, surfers, swim, taxi, tickets, travel, wifi, yelling, yha, yobos with no comments
day 261 — today was my last day in australia. i packed and checked out of my room. i had a coffee in town and met kennis for lunch. she’d just returned from a kakadu trek, which she said was fantastic. we had chinese for lunch and spent the afternoon together. we chatted until my […]
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16 December 2009 tagged australia, bali, beer, book, breakfast, coffee, couchsurfing, darwin, didgeridoo, drunk, email, girl, guitar, hippies, hong kong, indonesian embassy, internet, kennis, lessons, marijuana, murray, noodle, pot, remembrance day, shopping, sleep, store, ticket, tourists, travel, walkter, yha with no comments
day 256 — remembrance day — i had breakfast and coffee with a black fella called murray, did some washing and read my book. then i got the bus into town to sort out some travel arrangements. i was going to buy a ticket to bali, but was told that i needed an outbound flight […]