Posts Tagged ‘hostel’
In rants, travel on
7 March 2010 tagged application, approval code, australia day, australian embassy, bakery, bed bugs, book, breakfast, bureaucracy, camera stores, chess, computer, connaught place, conversation, cult, delay, delhi, email, foreign ministry, france, hippy, hostel, hotel, india, iran guide book, iranian embassy, iranian food, letter of introduction, lonely planet, main bazaar, mumbai, music, natural born killers, new delhi, official, operating system, pakistan embassy, phone, prayer, religious, restaurant, salvation army hostel, shower, singing, spain, train, ubuntu, upgrade, visa, water with no comments
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 […]
In rants, travel on
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 […]
In australia, travel on
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 australia, photography stuff, travel on
25 October 2009 tagged australia, beer, brighton house, brisbane, bus, car, ceremony, circular quay, craig, expensive, george street, harbour bridge, hostel, internet, inyoung, ipswich, meat pie, megan, opera house, photography, rugby league, sydney, sydney harbour, train, wedding with no comments
day 216 — we washed craig’s car and did some shopping. we visited megan and while we chatted i rearranged her massive cd collection. it was fun because we kept giving her shit about her choices in music.
in the afternoon we drove to the cake shop to pick up the cakes for the wedding, followed by […]
In rants, travel on
9 October 2009 tagged beer, beijing, black market, china, city, czech restaurant, group, horse riding, hostel, hotel, immigration, interpol, ipod, korea, lunch, meals, mongolia, movie, northface, passport, pickpocket, poker, police, police report, policewoman, railway, shopping, spanish, taxi, terelj national park, theft, tour, tourists, train, trans-mongolian, travel, trek, ulaan bataar, wifi, wolverine with no comments
day 186 — i got an early start today. i got a cab to the train station and began the trip to ulaan bataar. i shared a compartment with two guys (nick and van) and we chatted a lot to pass the time. the first two meals on the train were free, which was cool, […]
In buddhism, rants, travel on
7 October 2009 tagged airport, bananas, beer, bracelet, cafe, chengdu, china, coffee, computer, diary, dinner, employees, flight, friends, grafitti, group, guide, headphones, hostel, hotel, ipod, japanese, lhasa, lunch, mall, meat, military, monasteries, night, online, photography, photos, pictures, police, potala palace, rain, rickshaw, tattoo, temples, tibet, town, train, travel, wifi, xian with no comments
day 176 — i spent the morning at the hotel an said goodbye to hokuto (he was flying back to chengdu). i had two more days in lhasa by myself, but the guide had to go to the airport with hokuto, so i just spent the afternoon wandering around town. i wanted to take some […]
In buddhism, rants, travel on
5 October 2009 tagged argument, beer, breeding, buddha, buddhist, carving, chengdu, chess, china, chinese, crowds, dormitory, feet, giant buddha, girls, group, hostel, hotel, japanese, pandas, permit, photos, room, staff, stairs, statue, tibet, travel, traveler, visa with no comments
day 166 — i spent much of the day trying to sort out permits and tour options for tibet. the hostel had lots of information and quite a few people were using chengdu as their jumping point for entry into tibet. i didn’t have much luck finding anyone straight away. i emailed some of the […]
In blog stuff, rants, travel on
4 October 2009 tagged argument, bananas, beer, blog, border, breakfast, buffalos, bus, carriage, chengdu, china, computer, conductor, dormitory, girl, hanoi, hiking, homestay, hostel, hotel, immigration, internet cafe, ipod, kids, kinetic, linux, lunch, minibus, money, muddy, nanning, pancakes, photography, photos, pictures, prostitute, rain, research, restaurant, rice paddies, sapa, sleeper, star wars, taxi, tibet, ticket, torch, track, train, train station, travel, tv, ubuntu, vietnam, villages, visa, waterfall with no comments
day 161 — we woke up to a massive pancake breakfast that our hungry group couldn’t finish. the pancakes were piled high and we devoured them with bananas, honey and various jams. a little girl was playing on the fence across from our homestay, and when i spotted her, i ran across the road with […]
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27 January 2009 tagged airport, america, aussie, australia, bath, beer, belgium, blanket, british, bullet train, business class, castle, check in, cieon hilton, cold, couchsurfing, couple, flight, girl, guy, hostel, hotel, japan, japanese, kami suwa, korea, korean, manager, matsumoto, monkey, monorail, mt fuji, nagano, noodles, observation, onsen, photos, rappongi hills, restaurant, seoul, shinkansen, shopping, sky view, snow, tea, ticket, tokyo, tokyo tower, train, upgrade, vegemite with 1 comment
last night i got back from my 3 night, 4 day trip to japan. friday afternoon i headed to the airport and i was worried that i would miss my flight. the bus was caught in traffic. i arrived and headed to check-in when two guys jumped in front of me. i don’t know if […]