The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. — Stanley Kubrick

Posts Tagged ‘tourist’

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 295

day 291 — i got another early start and headed to kl cent­ral sta­tion. i bought a flight to kota kin­abalu and a return train ticket to singa­pore. it was a busy morn­ing, so i raced back to my hotel and checked out. i stored my bag and returned to the train sta­tion to make […]

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 17

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 book, he […]

travel diary day 3

day 1 — sat­urday — hav­ing said my final farewells, i headed to the air­port to catch my flight to bangkok. the flight itself was great and we arrived at the new bangkok inter­na­tional air­port. the air­port has two things which are sim­ilar; its incred­ibly long name (which i don’t remem­ber) and the incred­ibly long […]

big buddha birthday bash

had a mar­velous week­end with my mate ryan. he arrived in town on sat­urday after­noon and we imme­di­ately headed to nam­daemun. he was going to buy a lens, but decided not to. i spent a little bit of money on a flash unit. after that we headed to coex and straight across to bong eun […]