Posts Tagged ‘customs’
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 australia, rants, travel on
1 January 2010 tagged africa, australia, battery pack, blackmail, burma, camera, country, customs, dhl, europe, family, ipod, life, lunar new year, mongolia, myanmar, new year, package, tiger, travel, turkey, visa, world cup with 1 comment
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 [...]
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 buddhism, rants, travel on
6 October 2009 tagged altitude, altitude sickness, apples, beer, breakfast, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, cards, celebration, chengdu, chess, china, climbing, coffee shop, crowd, customs, dalai lama, delay, dreprung monastery, event, festival, flight, foreigners, guide, headache, immigration, kimchi jiggae, korean food, lhasa, markets, military, norblingka, painkillers, painting, passport, performance, photography, photos, plane, police, potala palace, praying, rain, riot gear, security, shorton festival, sleep, steak, summer palace, tibet, travel, tree, yak with no comments
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 [...]
In life, money, rants, travel on
5 April 2009 tagged bags, bangkok, bangladesh, beggars, boat, border, breakfast, burma, bus, bus station, cereal, clinic, coffee, coins, coolie, couch surfing, couchsurfing, cricket, crowds, customs, dhaka, diahorrea, dinner, doctors, dollars, dolphins, email, ferry, fishing, flight, food poisoning, gate, hotel, immigration, india, indian border, injection, international school, internet, ipod, iv drip, jens, kassandra, khulna, mangroves, money, muslim, myanmar, official, padma river, passport, plane ticket, police, rickshaw, river, rupees, sanjida, sick, sunderban national park, sunderbans, sylwia, taka, terrorist, throwing up, travel agent, twins, visa, weapons, wifi with 3 comments
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 [...]
In blog stuff, computers & internet, life, rants on
23 April 2008 tagged andi, christmas, customs, england, gift, keyboard, natalya, rosemcgill.co.uk, uk with 1 comment
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 [...]