Posts Tagged ‘matilda’
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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 […]
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13 August 2009 tagged airport, australia, australian, beer, black hmong, boat, bracelet, breakfast, brits, buffet breakfast, cat ba island, cat cat waterfall, cataract, catholic, catholic church, chess, china, chinese, clothes, coffee, computer, costume, craig, crucifix, cruise, dinner, drink, duckpack, editing, engine, eye, facebook, foreigners, format, girl, guide, halong bay, handicrafts, hanoi, hike, hiking, hmong, homestay, hotel, illiterate, junk, kayak, korea, limestone caves, mall, market, matilda, mobile phone, monkey island, mosquito net, motorbikes, mountain vilage, nanning, netbook, operating system, pool table, portraits, privacy, red hmong, rice paddies, sapa, shower, software, souvenirs, storage, sunset, swimming, ticket, tourists, track, train, vietnam, village, weather, wifi, windows, women, xp with 1 comment
day 156 — today was the last day on the island, and i had to leave early. after breakfast we checked out and were met by a boat which would take us to halong bay. we crossed cat ba island and ended up on a chinese style ‘junk’ which would be home for the final […]
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16 March 2009 tagged agra, agra fort, baby taj, bagh, baptism of fire, begging, bombs, british, burning ghat, chai, cliche, coffee, cultural tour, curry, danish, darjeeling limited, dead bodies, defense, diary, donation, door, email, experiences, farm, food, foreigners, francis, ganges river, gateway, german, ghat, guide, hotel, incredible india, independence, india, italian, janpath market, kevin, kiwi, laughing, laundry, liverpool, locker, lonely planet, lucknow, marijuana, matilda, moon garden, mumbai, mutineers, naive, neil, nirvana, overpriced, pack, rant, relax, residency, right of passage, ring, ripoffs, rooftop, rort, ruins, sahara ganj, scammed, shopping, shops, siege, sikandar, taj mahal, tickets, tour, toys, train station, varanasi, walls, water with no comments
day 6 — my ‘tour of agra’ turned out to be another overpriced rort. while i did go to the taj mahal, baby taj and the agra fort, the guide wanted to do a “cultural tour” which would have certainly involved going to all of his friend’s shops. we went to the moon garden, previously […]