Posts Tagged ‘sleep’
In chess, travel on
17 May 2010 tagged airport, bascarsija, beer, book, bosnia, breakfast, burek, bus station, catholic cathedral, cemetary, chess, chess set, christina, church, coffee, europe, guard of honour, hotel, ice cream, kosovo, latin bridge, luggage, martyr's cemetary, montenegro, mosque, motorbike, mountain road, museum, ouzo, park, parks, photo, pigeon square, podgorica, pristina, raki, sarajevo, siege, sleep, ticket, train, tram, travel, tunnel, zagreb with no comments
day 426 – we slept in and then walked to town for breakfast. we found a nice little outdoor cafe and bought some food. the guy at the next table, who already seemed drunk, bought us some raki (local ouzo) and beer … at 10.30am. after a few of those, we were tired and a [...]
In travel on
25 December 2009 tagged angry, animals, beer, book, breakfast, bukittingi, bus, chess, company, cop, email, fight, hotel, indonesia, lake, laundry, markets, mosquito net, padang, parapat, passengers, police, police station, sleep, sumatra, taxi, tourist haven, tuk tuk, wifi, zoo with no comments
day 281 – today i spent the entire day on the bus. it was a long, boring trip. i managed to get some sleep a few times and i wore ear plugs for most of the trip (to drown out the indo-pop that they insisted on playing at full volume). i talked to the bus [...]
In australia, travel on
16 December 2009 tagged air north, australia, bali, beach, beer, bemo, blackout, cafe, chess, chicken satay, coffee, darwin, delay, denpasar, dorms, drinking, flight, homestay, hotel, immigration, jetstar, kakadu trek, kennis, kuta, lonely planet, medewi, minibus, negara, nightmare, passengers, photography, room mate, singapore, sleep, surf town, surfers, swim, taxi, tickets, travel, wifi, yelling, yha, yobos with no comments
day 261 – today was my last day in australia. i packed and checked out of my room. i had a coffee in town and met kennis for lunch. she’d just returned from a kakadu trek, which she said was fantastic. we had chinese for lunch and spent the afternoon together. we chatted until my [...]
In australia, travel on
16 December 2009 tagged australia, bali, beer, book, breakfast, coffee, couchsurfing, darwin, didgeridoo, drunk, email, girl, guitar, hippies, hong kong, indonesian embassy, internet, kennis, lessons, marijuana, murray, noodle, pot, remembrance day, shopping, sleep, store, ticket, tourists, travel, walkter, yha with no comments
day 256 – remembrance day – i had breakfast and coffee with a black fella called murray, did some washing and read my book. then i got the bus into town to sort out some travel arrangements. i was going to buy a ticket to bali, but was told that i needed an outbound flight [...]
In australia, korea, movies, travel on
24 October 2009 tagged aaron, airport, beer, brisbane, bus, canada, christina, cinema, co-workers, coffee, colleagues, craig, customs, family, flight, immigration, incheon, ipswich, kepco, kimchi jiggae, korea, lunch, motorbike, movie, one week, packing, photography, pizza, plane, quarantine, restaurant, seoul, seoul photo club, sleep, sydney, tom, transfer, travel, wedding, wine with no comments
day 211 – after a sleep-in, i went out to a korean restaurant for lunch. i just can’t get enough kimchi jiggae during my stay in korea. after that, christina and i went to see the movie ‘one week’ at the cinema. it’s a really good movie actually. it was a bit weird at the [...]
In buddhism, rants, travel on
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 [...]
In australia, humorous, travel on
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 [...]
In buddhism, humorous, life, rants, travel on
2 May 2009 tagged air conditioning, ants, argument, audiobooks, bago, base camp, beer, book, breakfast, bridge, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, burma, burmese days, bus, buses, champions league, chinese, clouds, electricity, email, fan, gold, gold leaf, golden rock, hair, hike, journey, king, kinpun, luggage, lunch, money, monks, mosquitos, myanmar, phone, rain, relic, restaurant, rollercoaster, sacred, scared, sedan chair, shinya, ship, shrine, sleep, sunny, sunset, switchback, temples, train, train station, truck, yangon with no comments
day 54 – the ride to bago was long and shitty. travel by bus in myanmar is incredibly frustrating. most of the buses are used chinese and japanese junks. they’re old, dirty, rattly and uncomfortable. added to that is the fact that the driver and crew fill the bus with as much luggage and as [...]
In buddhism, life, rants, travel on
29 April 2009 tagged art, artists, aung san, bagan, barbeque, barcelona, beer, bicycle, bike, boat, breakfast, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, burma, bus, canal, catalan, children, cigarette, classrooms, curry, farm, festival, fishing, fishing village, flashlight, food, football, girls, gnocci, guitar, hotel, hti lom min lo pagoda, hydroponic, inle lake, inn dein, juan, juggling, jumping cat monastery, kalaw, kayin, kebab, liverpool, long neck, mandalay, markets, milkshakes, minyein gon pagoda, money, monks, music, myanmar, naung-u, pagodas, paintings, photographer, photographs, photography, pizza, puncture, pya tha da pgaoda, repair, restaurant, school, seaweed, shinya, sleep, sonia, statues, sunrise, sunset, swim, tea, temple, that byin huy temple, thumbs, ticket, tomato, tourists, tshirt, village, wedding, workshop with no comments
day 46 – after another great breakfast on the lawn, i rented a bicycle with the intention of riding into old bagan and exploring the pagodas. about 500 meters from the hotel i got a flat tyre. cursing, i walked the bike back in the direction of the corner i’d passed. an old guy told [...]
In buddhism, life, liverpool fc, rants, travel on
27 March 2009 tagged bar, beer, bhutia busty gompa, blackout, bombay belly, book, book of the dead, buddha, buddhist, cafe, candle, carlsberg, choling, chowkrasta, computer, dalai lama, darjeeling, dhirdham mardin, druk sangak choling monastery, durpin gompa, educational, email, ghoom, hindu temple, hotel, india, irish, jeep, kalimpong, kip, kolkata, landscape, liverpool, london, lonely planet, lunch, mantra, markets, medicine, memories, monastery, monk, mountain, observatory hill, om many padme hum, philosophy, photo, pizza, rain, red lion, ring, sakya choling monastery, samten choling monastery, script, sella, shared jep, shop, sick, sleep, station, steps, stomach bug, taxi, tea, teach, thailand, thunderstorm, tibet, tibetan, toy train, train, train ticket, travelers diahorrea, trek, views, virus, walk, water, weather, yiga choling monastery with 2 comments
i can’t believe i’ve been in india for 3 weeks … despite everything, time is going so quickly. day 18 – in the morning i got a taxi up to durpin gompa. it’s the biggest gompa in kalimpong and the views are sensational. unfortunately, the entire darjeeling district has been quite hazy for the past [...]
In australia, buddhism, computers & internet, life, liverpool fc, photography stuff, rants, sport, travel on
23 March 2009 tagged aston villa, australia, begging, book, buddha, buddhas, bus, computer, controversy, cricket, crowded, dalai lama, deki lodge, demon, dorje shugden, family, fish and chips, flayed, football, frescos, gompa, hawking, hill view hotel, hull, india, kalimpong, liverpool, macabre, map, memory, monk, mountains, myanmar, photography, photos, restaurant, ryan, sartaj, shower, siliguri, sleep, snoring, soccer, south africa, spirits, statues, sunday, terraces, thailand, tharpa choling gompa, thongsa gompa, tibet, tibetan, tourist, train, tshirt, valley, vanilla ice cream, wigan with 3 comments
day 15 (continued) – the overnight trip to siliguri was great. i slept comfortably for most of the trip. day 16 - in the morning i woke up because the guy on the bottom bunk was talking so loudly. it turns out that he does everything loudly, when i got up an decided to read my [...]
In cool photos, korea, leica, my photos, photo a day, photography stuff, random pix on
11 October 2008 tagged alcohol, b&w, black, day, drunk, korea, leica, man, photo, photography, picture, seoul, sidewalk, sleep, street, white with no comments
let me set the scene for this one. i usually wake up at 5.40am every day. i shower and walk to work. i leave my house around 6.10am and arrive inside my school before 6.20am. the area i live is surrounded by bars, motels and is quite a seedy area … one particular morning i [...]
In cool photos, korea, my photos, photo a day, photography stuff, random pix on
21 August 2008 tagged day, korea, man, motorcycle, photo, photography, picture, portrait, seoul, sleep with 1 comment