After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box. — Italian Proverb

Posts Tagged ‘passport’

travel diary — day 340

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 […]

travel diary — day 315

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 […]

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 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 185

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 […]

travel diary — day 175

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 […]

travel diary — day 120

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 […]

travel diary — day 115

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 […]

travel diary — day 110

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 […]

travel diary — day 105

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 […]

travel diary — day 90

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 […]

travel diary — day 60

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. […]

travel diary — day 53

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, […]

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 35

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 […]

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