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Posts Tagged ‘ferry’

travel diary — day 325

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 […]

travel diary — day 305

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 […]

travel diary — day 300 — merry christmas

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 […]

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 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 280

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 […]

travel diary — day 270

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 […]

travel diary — day 225

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 […]

travel diary — day 45

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 […]

travel diary — day 43

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 […]

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 i […]