Posts Tagged ‘ferry’
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2 March 2010 tagged 1984, bazaar, bed bugs, beer, breakfast, cafe, caves, christian, commission, complaint, dinner, dormitory, elephant island, entrance fee, ferry, france, goa, grottos, guns, hotel, india, kolkata, laundry, lonely planet, lookout point, manager, mattress, mumbai, ngo, salvation army hostel, scam, shave, sleeping bag, station, street market, taxi, ticket, train, wifi, windows with no comments
day 321 — it was cold on the train and i had difficulty sleeping. without a sleeping bag i had nothing to cover me or protect me from the cold wind that came in through the gap in the windows. the morning was better and i sat in the sun reading my book and looking […]
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3 February 2010 tagged aids, bangkok, beer, blog, breakfast, brunei, christmas, christmas day, clown fish, coral reef, course, dinner, felafel, ferry, flight, guide book, hiv, hospital, hostel, hotel, island, khaosan road, kota kinabalu, kuala lumpur, malaysia, mark zusak, money, moray eel, online, palau labuan, pizza, rash, scuba diving, sea turtle, soi cowboy, sukhumvit, taxi, test, thailand, the book thief, travel, turtle with no comments
day 300 — christmas day — i woke up early and got the first ferry back to kota kinabalu. i arrived at my hotel and spent the afternoon online updating my blog. it’s christmas day! what other excuse do i need to be lazy?
day 301 — i spent the day finishing my blog, playing online chess […]
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26 December 2009 tagged 300, blog, christmas, christmas day, ferry, hotel, kota kinabalu, lunch, malaysia, martini, palau labuan, sparta, travel with no comments
day 300 — for sparta!! the 300th day of travel coincided with christmas. i got up early and checked out of my hotel on the island of palau labuan. i got the ferry to kota kinabalu. we arrived at lunchtime and i checked into my hotel.
i had lunch in town and returned to the hotel. i […]
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25 December 2009 tagged air asia, alcohol, australia, bandar seri begawan, bangar, bangkok, beer, boat, borneo, breakfast, brunei, bsb, canal, carlsberg, chicken, cigar, city, dominican republic, duty free, email, ferry, flights, guesthouse, island, japan, kimchi jiggae, korea, korean restaurant, kota kinabalu, malaysia, mall, martini, memorial, mosque, museum, muslim, palau labuan, photos, prayer, river, satay, soldiers, sunset, surrender, travel, travel agent, visa, worldwar, ww2, wwii with no comments
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 […]
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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 […]
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16 December 2009 tagged bali, beer, bus station, cafe, cats, coffee, crowd, dancing, dinner, dirty, drunk, ferry, garbage, girlfriend, hotel, indonesia, jakarta, jl jaksa, karaoke bar, kids, korea, monument, mustang sally, noodles, photography, photography club, rain, rubbish, scavenging, sick, singing, slum, spc, street market, sumatra, taxi, tom, traffic, yulia with no comments
day 276 — i spent the day at the hotel and café. i had started feeling a little sick again so i didn’t want to go too far. i messed around online all day.
day 277 — i felt much better today, but i was reluctant to stray too far from the hotel. i stayed in the […]
In buddhism, travel on
16 December 2009 tagged active volcano, bali, beer, bemo, borobodur, bromo, buddhist, buffet breakfast, camera, cemero lawang, competition, dancing, dinner, drinking, expats, ferry, fight, finals, gilimanuk, hindu, homestay, hotels, indonesia, indonesian tourists, island, java, jogjakarta, laundry, lookout point, lunch, medewi, party, photography, photos, police station, polish, prambanan, presentation, probolinggo, scuffling, singing, sulphur, sunburned, sunrise, sunset, surabaya, surfing, temple, travel, travel stories, travelers, trishaw, volcanoes, walk with no comments
day 266 — the previous day i’d seen some signs advertising the ‘medewi surf comp’ which was a local event organised by a few expats. the whole idea was to promote surfing and improve the medewi community. after breakfast, i found the organisers and offered to phởtograph the day for them. they jumped at the […]
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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 buddhism, humorous, life, rants, travel on
27 April 2009 tagged air con, angry, backpacker, bagan, barbeque, beer, blanket. hotel, boat, buddhas, buddhism, buddhist, buffet breakfast, burma, bus, bus station, charcoal, crows, ferry, food, foreigner, korea, laundry, lawn, meat, mirrors, monywa, motorcycle, myanmar, pagoda, pakokku, passport, paya, reclining buddha, rickshaw, satellite tv, shinya, standing buddha, statue, swimming pool, swimming shorts, temple, thanboddhay, tickets, tower, umbrellas, waterproof camera with no comments
day 44 — after checking out of the hotel, we got a rickshaw to the bus station. the entire place was a maze of confusion as we tried to find the bus that would take us to pakokku. we were getting different information to what the hotel told us and couldn’t work out exactly what […]
In buddhism, humorous, life, rants, travel on
27 April 2009 tagged amarapura, audiobook, aung san suu kyi, ayerawaddi, bagaya kyaung, barefot, beer, bicycle, boat, brechtian, british couple, buddha, buddhist, burma, crowd, curry, emails, ferry, government, hot, hsinbyume paya, humour, ice cream, imprisonment, inle lake, inwa, ipod, liverpool, lonely planet, mandalay, mandalay hill, mingun, mingun paya, mini petra, monastery, money, monk, monywa, moustache brothers, myanmar, nanmyin watchtower, ox cart, pagoda, palace, photography, political, political prisoners, polygamy, prison, rain, rickshaw, river, sagaing, sagaing hill, sandamani paya, satire, shinya, shwe kyet kya pagoda, souvenirs, statues, tattoos, tea, teak, temple, thai girls, tilawka guru, touts, tripitaka, troupe, truck, ubein bridge with no comments
day 41 — today was an early start, as we were catching the ferry to a small town across the ayerawaddi river. the town is mingun and has a few interesting temples. one of the temples is on the cover of the myanmar lonely planet. shinya had got no sleep and was tired from his […]
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 i […]