Posts Tagged ‘passport’
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8 March 2010 tagged acute mountain sickness, altitude, ams, apple pie, bakery, beer, beggar, cable, coffee, connaught place, delhi, diamox, dinner, flights, house boat, hp service centre, india, internet, kashmir, killing time, ladakh, leh, liverpool game, non-genuine, pakistan, pakistan embassy, pakistan visa, passport, phone, photo, power surge, rooftop bar, srinigar, tickets, underwear, washing with no comments
day 336 — basically, i’m killing time until i get my pakistan visa. i can’t leave delhi without it. so i have been spending my days as lazily as possible, trying not to spend too much money.
i bought some underwear and spent much of the day online. i had dinner at a rooftop bar which was […]
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3 February 2010 tagged air india, book, burma, chess, coffee, craig, cycle rickshaw, email, hammock, hotel, indian embassy, kolkata, lonely planet, mandalay, markets, moustache brothers, myanmar, passport, tattoo, tourist, train ticket, travel, visa, yangon, yangon united fc with no comments
day 311 — today was a fairly easy day. i had breakfast and drank a coffee at an outdoor café. i checked email and walked around town. i spent a few hours online in the afternoon, had dinner and slept.
day 312 — my morning routine had settled into breakfast and coffee. the small café had a […]
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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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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, […]
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8 October 2009 tagged address, advice, aggressive, asia, bank, banpo village, bbq, beer, beijing, bicycle, china, coffee, digs, dinner, drum tower, drunk, dutch, embass, evil eye, expensive, forbidden city, hookah, india, korea, korean, matriarchal, mongolia, muslim quarter, netherlands, olympics, passport, peter, photography, photos, pizza, rain, restaurant, subway, taxi, terracotta warriors, tibet, ticket, tienanmin square, tour, tourist market, train, travel, traveler, visa, xian internet cafe with no comments
day 181 — i booked my train to beijing and a terracotta warrior tour. i walked down to the drum tower and took some phởtos. then i walked around the muslim quarter, bought some dried pineapple, took phởtos and walked back to the hotel. that evening i met a couple of dutch travelers and we […]
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6 October 2009 tagged altitude, altitude sickness, apples, beer, breakfast, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, cards, celebration, chengdu, chess, china, climbing, coffee shop, crowd, customs, dalai lama, delay, dreprung monastery, event, festival, flight, foreigners, guide, headache, immigration, kimchi jiggae, korean food, lhasa, markets, military, norblingka, painkillers, painting, passport, performance, photography, photos, plane, police, potala palace, praying, rain, riot gear, security, shorton festival, sleep, steak, summer palace, tibet, travel, tree, yak with no comments
day 171 — today it rained all day. i’d been spending a lot of money in china, so i decided to stay at the hotel. i chatted online and played chess all day.
day 172 — i packed, checked out of the hotel and went with hokuto to catch our flight to lhasa. customs and immigration were […]
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28 June 2009 tagged 104 street, administrator, angkor wat, annika, bar, bbc, beer, bicycle, blog, book, book store, border, breakfast, bus, cambodia, casinos, chess, classrooms, club, detention centre, driver, elephant bar, embassy, eva, fcc building, foreigners, gardens, girlfriends, half yard glass, ho chi minh city, hostels, hostesses, hotel, immigration, kfc, khmer rouge, kids, killing fields, lonely planet, mattress, mekong delta, michael jackson, minsk, money, motorcycle, multi-entry, news, one zero four, palace, passport, phnom penh, photos, pontoon, potato and gravy, prisoners, rugby, s21, school, shallow graves, sharkys, shoestring asia, siem reap, singing, taxi, teacher, torture, tourists, tuk tuk, victims, vietnam, visa, wallabies, wifi with 2 comments
day 116 — i met the german girls (eva and annika) for breakfast. they were catching the early bus to phnom penh. i said goodbye and we made arrangements to meet in phnom penh later that night, since i was catching the bus at 1pm.
i rented a bicycle and rode out to angkor wat again. the […]
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28 June 2009 tagged alarm, angor wat, annika, anz, atm, aung san suu kyi, australia, bangkok, bayon, beer, bicycle, birthday, book, bribe, burma, bus, cambodia, china, citizenship, crocodile, curry, dead fish, dinner, dr fish, ernesto che guvera, eva, feet, fish, free burma, german girls, guesthouse, guitar, happy pizza, hotel, immigration, karaoke, khao san road, little india, market, markus zusak, motorbike, passport, phnom penh, ploy, poipet, refugees, scam, sex slaves, siem reap, singlet, ta promh, thai border, thailand, the messenger, tibetan market, tshirt, tuk tuk, university campus, visa, weather with no comments
day 111 — today was a very lazy day. i stayed in khao san road all day reading my book. in the afternoon ploy called me and asked if i’d be interested in going out. as it turns out, today was aung san suu kyi’s birthday and there was a small gathering at one of […]
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28 June 2009 tagged australia, australian, author, bangkok, boom, bus ticket, cafe, cambodia, chess, chiang mai, editing, elements 7, embassy, giottos, hard drive, ice cream, ipod, khao san road, markus zusak, mexican restaurant, motorcycle, passport, photoshop, plate, ploy, poipet, police, rain, repairs, ryan, storage, taxi, thailand, the book thief, the mesenger, ticket, train station, tripod with no comments
day 106 — ryan and i took the bike and went into town. today was the only bad day during my stay at chiang mai. ryan and i had gone out on his bike again. we were going to buy my train ticket to bangkok and get the second hard drive for backing up my […]
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28 June 2009 tagged adobe, australia, bangkok, bbq prawns, beer, blog, boom, buffet, chess, chess.com, chiang mai, dinner, editing, embassy, freeagent, fried chicken, harddrive, hp, hyperdrive, ice cream, ipod, italian restaurant, lightroom, motorcycle, movies, netbook, passport, photos, photoshop, ryan, shopping, thailand with no comments
spending two weeks at ryan’s house was a vacation from my vacation. as a result, i didn’t do too much. most of the entries between day 96 and day 108 will be short.
day 96 — having recently bought my netbook, i spent the day adding importing and editing phởtos. i messed around with a few different […]
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10 June 2009 tagged airport, apple, australia, australian consulate, australian embassy, backpack, balls, bangkok, beer, book, bookstore, boom, burma, camera, camera bag, candles, chiang mai, equipment, flirting, girl, gstring, himalaya, hotel, istudio, kata, khao san road, lapdance, lowepro, lunch, mandalay, mbm, naked, nepal, nude, passport, pat pong, photography, photos, ping pong bat, ping pong show, ploy, red light district, rudyard kipling, ryan, shinya, shopping, skytrain, sleep, steven galloway, straw, strip club, survey, taxi, thai, thailand, the cellist of sarajevo, theatre restaurant, tip, topless, trek, trick, tshirt, vagina, whistle with 1 comment
the travel diary for days 61 to 88 can be found under himalaya trek.
day 89 — i enjoyed a rare sleep in and watched some tv in my hotel room. i checked out and waited for ryan and boom in the restaurant attached to the hotel. due to a mixup, i didn’t realise that i was […]
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5 June 2009 tagged airport, anniversary, australian embassy, ayutthaya, bangkok, beer, british council, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, burma, day trip, elephants, feet, fight, flight, flight attendant, foreigner, hammock, happy ending, hotels, hotodg, indian, jobs, khao san road, king, massage, music, myanmar, naked, pagodas, passport, piercing, rubber plug, seat, siam, statues, taxi, teachers, temples, thailand, throne, towel, travel agent, underwear, wifi, yangon with 2 comments
day 59 — today was going to be a busy day and i got started early. i walked down to the australian embassy first, to ask about passport renewal. they told me that it’s a 10 day process and $220. i obviously don’t have that kind of time, so i went back to british council. […]
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2 May 2009 tagged alphabet, bago, bicycle, book, bookstore, breakfast, bribery, bureaucracy, burma, burmese days, bus, camp, canada, cheese, chocolate, dictionary, diseases, email, english, eucalyptus oil, europe, geography, george orwell, gnocci, hill, inle lake, internet cafe, job, juan, letters, longyi, malaysia, massage, mint, mojito, money, myanmar, naung shwe, numbers, passport, photos, pizza, poster, restaurant, school, shinya, shower, shwe lin pan pagoda, sonia, students, switzerland, teacher, thailand, traditional, virgin, world map, writing, yangon with no comments
day 51 (anzac day) — i got up early and had breakfast. i’d made a promise with sonia and juan to go bicycle riding with them. shinya wasn’t coming with us, he’d decided to spend the day hiking in the hills. we did a circuit around the north of naung shwe, including the small lake, […]
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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 […]
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10 April 2009 tagged airport, atm, audiobooks, australia, baht, bangkok, bangladesh, bbc, blackout, book, border, breakfast, buffet, cab, cafe, chang mai, check in, commission, cook, couchsurfing, currency, dollars, dynamite, electricity, email, embassy, emerald buddha, exchange, exit visa, flight, forms, funny, guest, hotel, immigration, india, ingredients, ipod, jihad, kassandra, khao san road, kolkata, linen, lonely planet, mcdonalds, mr jihad, mr men, muslim, myanmar, officials, pants, passport, plane, receipt, reclining buddha, ryan, sandwich, sheraton, shoestring, shopping, south east asia, spaghetti, stamp, subway, sudoku, taka, teacher, temple, thailand, thunderstorm, titanium, tshirt, visa, wat pho, wat phra kaew, wifi, yangon with no comments
day 30 (continued) — instead of spending the evening doing totally nothing, i decided to be a good guest and cooked dinner for my generous host. i went digging around the kitchen and found enough ingredients to make a very reasonable spaghetti. there was no cummin, kidney beans or chilli powder, but i could make […]