Posts Tagged ‘electricity’
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 [...]
In buddhism, humorous, life, rants, travel on
2 May 2009 tagged air conditioning, ants, argument, audiobooks, bago, base camp, beer, book, breakfast, bridge, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, burma, burmese days, bus, buses, champions league, chinese, clouds, electricity, email, fan, gold, gold leaf, golden rock, hair, hike, journey, king, kinpun, luggage, lunch, money, monks, mosquitos, myanmar, phone, rain, relic, restaurant, rollercoaster, sacred, scared, sedan chair, shinya, ship, shrine, sleep, sunny, sunset, switchback, temples, train, train station, truck, yangon with no comments
day 54 – the ride to bago was long and shitty. travel by bus in myanmar is incredibly frustrating. most of the buses are used chinese and japanese junks. they’re old, dirty, rattly and uncomfortable. added to that is the fact that the driver and crew fill the bus with as much luggage and as [...]
In australia, buddhism, life, liverpool fc, money, rants, travel on
10 April 2009 tagged airport, atm, audiobooks, australia, baht, bangkok, bangladesh, bbc, blackout, book, border, breakfast, buffet, cab, cafe, chang mai, check in, commission, cook, couchsurfing, currency, dollars, dynamite, electricity, email, embassy, emerald buddha, exchange, exit visa, flight, forms, funny, guest, hotel, immigration, india, ingredients, ipod, jihad, kassandra, khao san road, kolkata, linen, lonely planet, mcdonalds, mr jihad, mr men, muslim, myanmar, officials, pants, passport, plane, receipt, reclining buddha, ryan, sandwich, sheraton, shoestring, shopping, south east asia, spaghetti, stamp, subway, sudoku, taka, teacher, temple, thailand, thunderstorm, titanium, tshirt, visa, wat pho, wat phra kaew, wifi, yangon with no comments
day 30 (continued) – instead of spending the evening doing totally nothing, i decided to be a good guest and cooked dinner for my generous host. i went digging around the kitchen and found enough ingredients to make a very reasonable spaghetti. there was no cummin, kidney beans or chilli powder, but i could make [...]
In photography stuff, rants, travel on
23 April 2008 tagged camera, charge, device, electricity, geek, panel, solar, travel with no comments
even though i’ll have access to power in most places, the geek in me wants to carry solar panels while i travel … for fun and emergencies. enter the portable solar power charger. this little baby is a tad pricey ($90) but able to charge most device batteries (ie camera batteries and storage device lithium [...]