I am the lizard king. I can do most anything. — Jim Morrison

Posts Tagged ‘beer’

travel diary — day 340

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 […]

travel diary — day 330

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 […]

travel diary — day 325

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 […]

travel diary — day 320

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 […]

travel diary — day 310

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 […]

travel diary — day 305

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 […]

travel diary — day 299

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 […]

travel diary — day 295

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 […]

travel diary — day 290

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 […]

travel diary — day 285

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 […]

travel diary — day 280

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 […]

travel diary — day 275

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 […]

travel diary — day 270

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 […]

travel diary — day 265

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 […]

travel diary — day 260

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 […]

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