The hollowness of one’s soul cannot be filled with junk from ebay. — Rubber Chicken

Posts Tagged ‘customs’

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 [...]

happy new year

the year 2009 was the most amazing year of my life. i quit my job and spent 10 months of the year on the road. i visited 20 countries and spent new years even in myanmar. 2009 was a year of extreme highs and lows. i had a lot of fun traveling and seeing so [...]

travel diary – day 215

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 [...]

travel diary – day 175

day 171 – today it rained all day. i’d been spending a lot of money in china, so i decided to stay at the hotel. i chatted online and played chess all day. day 172 – i packed, checked out of the hotel and went with hokuto to catch our flight to lhasa. customs and [...]

travel diary day 30

day 26 – today was a crazy, confusing day. it made me realise how retarded some countries are with regards to inter-country relationships.  while i was still recovering from the previous night’s passport dramas, i woke up at 4am (the new ipod has a nifty little alarm clock) and headed to the bus station. when [...]

thanks natalya

well, i owe natalya a huge thanks … and now i feel guilty as hell too! i just received a much belated christmas gift from my friends in merry old england. natalya and andi, owners of the charity site http://www.rosemcgill.co.uk sent me a christmas pressie in the mail; a super cool bendy keyboard. it even [...]