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Posts Tagged ‘hostel’

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 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 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 220

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 […]

travel diary — day 190

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, […]

travel diary — day 180

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 […]

travel diary — day 170

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 […]

travel diary — day 165

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 […]

awesome japan trip

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 […]