Posts Tagged ‘bus’
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 computers & internet, travel on
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 […]
In travel on
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 […]
In australia, travel on
16 December 2009 tagged aboriginals, alice springs, atlas shrugged, australia, beer, bonfire, breakfast, bus, camel station, camp, caves, chinese, coffee, couchsurf, darwin, didgeridoo store, drunk, economics, fire, football, germans, grottos, guide, hangover, hippies, hot, indigenous, katherine, katherine gorge, king's canyon, linux, marijuana, mattress, monolith, movie, noodle, olgas, pot, rock, shower, silhouette, stars, sunrise, sunset, swags, the ghan, theatre, tour bus, tourists, train station, travel, tripod, uluru, uluru climb, walking, water, water bottle bag with no comments
day 251 — today was hot, so i spent a lazy day in alice springs. i had an early coffee and talked to the owner of a didgeridoo store. the owner was a didj player and i got some advice from him. afterwards i got online, catching up on some chess games and had dinner. […]
In australia, photography stuff, travel on
30 October 2009 tagged abc, australia, beer, belaying, breakfast, bridge, brisbane, brisbane river, brisbane wheel, bus, cliff, climbing, climbing club, coffee, cremorne theatre, floodlights, football, goma, kangaroo point, london eye, lyric theatre, mall, night, oman, photography, playhouse, queen street, queensland, queensland museum, radio, restaurant, soccer, socceroos, southbank, state library, storey bridge with no comments
day 226 — after breakfast i took the bus into the city and found myself in the queen street mall. it’s such a long time since i’ve been there, and i was surprised how little the mall had changed. i wandered around for a while looking at the shop windows and contemplating a beer at […]
In australia, travel on
26 October 2009 tagged australia, beer, blue poles, boxes, breakfast, bus, canberra, circular quay, coffee, darling harbour, exhibition, federal mint, ferry, fish and chips, gallery, harbour bridge, hostel, jackson pollock, john howard, kirabili, koala, luna park, mall, map, matilda, meat pie, national library, nick cave, norman hotel, opera house, parliament house, rain, steak, sydney, the lodge, tickets, train, yha with no comments
day 221 — when i checked into the hostel (the day before) i got a sydney city map which also had some coupons attached. one of the coupons was for ‘breakfast with the koalas’ at sydney’s wildlife centre. it sounded good, but required getting up early.
i walked down to darling harbour and was disappointed to find […]
In australia, photography stuff, travel on
25 October 2009 tagged australia, beer, brighton house, brisbane, bus, car, ceremony, circular quay, craig, expensive, george street, harbour bridge, hostel, internet, inyoung, ipswich, meat pie, megan, opera house, photography, rugby league, sydney, sydney harbour, train, wedding with no comments
day 216 — we washed craig’s car and did some shopping. we visited megan and while we chatted i rearranged her massive cd collection. it was fun because we kept giving her shit about her choices in music.
in the afternoon we drove to the cake shop to pick up the cakes for the wedding, followed by […]
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 blog stuff, rants, travel on
4 October 2009 tagged argument, bananas, beer, blog, border, breakfast, buffalos, bus, carriage, chengdu, china, computer, conductor, dormitory, girl, hanoi, hiking, homestay, hostel, hotel, immigration, internet cafe, ipod, kids, kinetic, linux, lunch, minibus, money, muddy, nanning, pancakes, photography, photos, pictures, prostitute, rain, research, restaurant, rice paddies, sapa, sleeper, star wars, taxi, tibet, ticket, torch, track, train, train station, travel, tv, ubuntu, vietnam, villages, visa, waterfall with no comments
day 161 — we woke up to a massive pancake breakfast that our hungry group couldn’t finish. the pancakes were piled high and we devoured them with bananas, honey and various jams. a little girl was playing on the fence across from our homestay, and when i spotted her, i ran across the road with […]
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 travel on
13 August 2009 tagged america, beers, bombs, breakfast, bus, chess, concubine, email, foreigners, hanoi, hotel, hut, jars, laos, lunch, money, old quarter, people, phonsovan, photos, plain of jars, rice paddies, russian tank, shower, site, taxi, temples, tour, unexploded, uxo, valium, vientiane, vietnam, whiskey, whiskey factory with no comments
day 146 — today i did the full day plain of jars tour. the tour started in the morning with a look at site one. there are three sites in total. site one also consisted of a lecture regarding the rules for wandering around the plain of jars. normally, i’m not one for listening to […]
In buddhism, korea, money, travel on
6 August 2009 tagged alms, bars, beer, border, breakfast ticket vang vieng, british girls, buddha, buffet, bus, cafe, chess, chess set, coffee, dawn, debit card, drugs, email, food, foreigners, friends, hanoi, headache, ipod, kimchi, kimchi jiggae, korea, korean food, koreans, laos, luang prabang, minibus, monks, morning, night markets, phonsovan, photograph, photography, riverfront, stalls, statue, temple, travel, vendors, vientiane, vietnam with no comments
day 141 — i woke up with a headache caused by sleeping for so long. i was feeling weary from the long bus trip and the previous night’s sleep. i walked along the riverfront and got some breakfast, after which i booked a ticket to vang vieng. i met the british girls after lunch. they […]
In humorous, money, rants, travel on
26 July 2009 tagged angry, bank, beer, boots, border, bribery, britain, bus, camera, candle, carlsberg, cash, cleaning, coffee, corruption, credit card, diary, dollars, dong, donut, electricity, exchange, girls, hanoi, hooker, hotel, immigration, ipod, ireland, lake, laos, loan, motorcycle, pint, rain, room, sandwich, shoes, taxi, vientiane, vietnam, visa, woman, yelling with no comments
days 124 — 137 can be found on my vietnam motorcycle diary page.
day 137 — i woke up late and moved to a cheaper room. hanoi was hot, but i still got out and walked around town. i ended up down at the lake which is basically the centre of town. i wandered around there […]
In travel on
28 June 2009 tagged 104 street, administrator, angkor wat, annika, bar, bbc, beer, bicycle, blog, book, book store, border, breakfast, bus, cambodia, casinos, chess, classrooms, club, detention centre, driver, elephant bar, embassy, eva, fcc building, foreigners, gardens, girlfriends, half yard glass, ho chi minh city, hostels, hostesses, hotel, immigration, kfc, khmer rouge, kids, killing fields, lonely planet, mattress, mekong delta, michael jackson, minsk, money, motorcycle, multi-entry, news, one zero four, palace, passport, phnom penh, photos, pontoon, potato and gravy, prisoners, rugby, s21, school, shallow graves, sharkys, shoestring asia, siem reap, singing, taxi, teacher, torture, tourists, tuk tuk, victims, vietnam, visa, wallabies, wifi with 2 comments
day 116 — i met the german girls (eva and annika) for breakfast. they were catching the early bus to phnom penh. i said goodbye and we made arrangements to meet in phnom penh later that night, since i was catching the bus at 1pm.
i rented a bicycle and rode out to angkor wat again. the […]