Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. — Albert Eintein

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travel diary — day 350

day 346 — it snowed like mad the whole day. after break­fast i walked around town tak­ing phở­to­graphs of the snow. it was a lot of fun because people were happy to let me take their pic­ture — even though it was snow­ing and freez­ing cold. i returned to chow­khang gompa and took some phởtos […]

travel diary — day 345

day 341 — i got star­ted early for my flight to leh. at 5am i got a taxi to the air­port but had to stop along the way when the taxi shred­ded a tyre. retreads are very com­mon in india and the qual­ity is, in a word, shit. 10 minutes later we were going again […]

travel diary — day 335

day 331 — aus­tralia day — i woke up, had break­fast and packed. the hostel had no water at all … so no shower … and i was covered in bed bug bites … again! i stored my bag and headed into town. i checked out a few cam­era stores, checked email and returned to […]

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 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 315

day 311 — today was a fairly easy day. i had break­fast and drank a cof­fee at an out­door café. i checked email and walked around town. i spent a few hours online in the after­noon, had din­ner and slept.
day 312 — my morn­ing routine had settled into break­fast and cof­fee. the small café had a […]

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 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 […]

hey, there’s google … everybody wave!

today i received my google wave invite. my account is act­ive and i’m cur­rently enjoy­ing look­ing at the wave inter­face. wave is the next leap for­ward in online con­nectiv­ity. it has the abil­ity to mashup email, mes­saging, images, video, maps, etc into one huge con­ver­sa­tion.
whilst wave is still being developed some of the fea­tures aren’t […]

travel diary — day 200

day 196 — i spent the morn­ing online, catch­ing up with email and chess games. then in the after­noon i went out with paula to the souvenir shop. i bought a few gifts for friends, includ­ing a couple of chess sets. when i returned to the hotel i real­ised that one chess set was missing […]

travel diary — day 155

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 […]

travel diary — day 150

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 […]

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