Posts Tagged ‘visa’
In rants, travel on
7 March 2010 tagged application, approval code, australia day, australian embassy, bakery, bed bugs, book, breakfast, bureaucracy, camera stores, chess, computer, connaught place, conversation, cult, delay, delhi, email, foreign ministry, france, hippy, hostel, hotel, india, iran guide book, iranian embassy, iranian food, letter of introduction, lonely planet, main bazaar, mumbai, music, natural born killers, new delhi, official, operating system, pakistan embassy, phone, prayer, religious, restaurant, salvation army hostel, shower, singing, spain, train, ubuntu, upgrade, visa, water with no comments
day 331 — australia day — i woke up, had breakfast and packed. the hostel had no water at all … so no shower … and i was covered in bed bug bites … again! i stored my bag and headed into town. i checked out a few camera stores, checked email and returned to […]
In travel on
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 […]
In buddhism, travel on
3 February 2010 tagged airport, amapura, bangkok, battery pack, beer, blanket, boat, breakfast, bridge, burma, bus, bus ticket, camera, coffee, cold, customs, dhl, dinner, drunk, flight, hammock, horse cart, hotel, ice cream book, india, indian embassy, koreans, longyes, mandalay, market, monks, myanmar, new years day, new years eve, noodles, passport photos, razors, shampoo, soap, sunglasses, sunset, taxi, temple, thailand, tshirt, u myo aung, ubein bridge, visa, yangon with no comments
day 306 — new years eve — the day began with breakfast and chess online, after which i checked out and headed to the airport. i flew to burma and met some other tourists (two koreans and a swiss guy) and we all agreed to share a taxi to town. i had a few errands […]
In australia, rants, travel on
1 January 2010 tagged africa, australia, battery pack, blackmail, burma, camera, country, customs, dhl, europe, family, ipod, life, lunar new year, mongolia, myanmar, new year, package, tiger, travel, turkey, visa, world cup with 1 comment
the year 2009 was the most amazing year of my life. i quit my job and spent 10 months of the year on the road. i visited 20 countries and spent new years even in myanmar.
2009 was a year of extreme highs and lows. i had a lot of fun traveling and seeing so many […]
In australia, korea, travel on
25 December 2009 tagged air asia, alcohol, australia, bandar seri begawan, bangar, bangkok, beer, boat, borneo, breakfast, brunei, bsb, canal, carlsberg, chicken, cigar, city, dominican republic, duty free, email, ferry, flights, guesthouse, island, japan, kimchi jiggae, korea, korean restaurant, kota kinabalu, malaysia, mall, martini, memorial, mosque, museum, muslim, palau labuan, photos, prayer, river, satay, soldiers, sunset, surrender, travel, travel agent, visa, worldwar, ww2, wwii with no comments
day 296 — in the morning i walked into town again. i checked a couple of travel agents and realised my plan (to fly to bangkok via brunei) was going to be too expensive. i gave up and walked back across town. on the way i found a korean restaurant and decided to grab some […]
In computers & internet, travel on
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 […]
In rants, travel on
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 […]
In buddhism, rants, travel on
5 October 2009 tagged argument, beer, breeding, buddha, buddhist, carving, chengdu, chess, china, chinese, crowds, dormitory, feet, giant buddha, girls, group, hostel, hotel, japanese, pandas, permit, photos, room, staff, stairs, statue, tibet, travel, traveler, visa with no comments
day 166 — i spent much of the day trying to sort out permits and tour options for tibet. the hostel had lots of information and quite a few people were using chengdu as their jumping point for entry into tibet. i didn’t have much luck finding anyone straight away. i emailed some of the […]
In blog stuff, rants, travel on
4 October 2009 tagged argument, bananas, beer, blog, border, breakfast, buffalos, bus, carriage, chengdu, china, computer, conductor, dormitory, girl, hanoi, hiking, homestay, hostel, hotel, immigration, internet cafe, ipod, kids, kinetic, linux, lunch, minibus, money, muddy, nanning, pancakes, photography, photos, pictures, prostitute, rain, research, restaurant, rice paddies, sapa, sleeper, star wars, taxi, tibet, ticket, torch, track, train, train station, travel, tv, ubuntu, vietnam, villages, visa, waterfall with no comments
day 161 — we woke up to a massive pancake breakfast that our hungry group couldn’t finish. the pancakes were piled high and we devoured them with bananas, honey and various jams. a little girl was playing on the fence across from our homestay, and when i spotted her, i ran across the road with […]
In humorous, money, rants, travel on
26 July 2009 tagged angry, bank, beer, boots, border, bribery, britain, bus, camera, candle, carlsberg, cash, cleaning, coffee, corruption, credit card, diary, dollars, dong, donut, electricity, exchange, girls, hanoi, hooker, hotel, immigration, ipod, ireland, lake, laos, loan, motorcycle, pint, rain, room, sandwich, shoes, taxi, vientiane, vietnam, visa, woman, yelling with no comments
days 124 — 137 can be found on my vietnam motorcycle diary page.
day 137 — i woke up late and moved to a cheaper room. hanoi was hot, but i still got out and walked around town. i ended up down at the lake which is basically the centre of town. i wandered around there […]
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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 […]
In australia, travel on
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 […]
In australia, buddhism, life, money, rants, travel on
22 April 2009 tagged airport, atm, baht, bangkok, bar, beer, boom boom, breakfast, buddha, buffet, bus, cash, chicken noodles, dance, dollars, filipino band, fucking, girls, guesthouse, hotel, ice cream, ipod, irish bar, japanese, kao san road, kyats, liverpool, mahamuni paya, mandalay, monastery, money, mosquito, music, myanmar, nightclub, photography, photos, pole dance, prostitutes, rain, restaurant, routine, samosa, shin rameon, shinya, shwe in bin kyaung, skype, statue, tables, tea, thai, thailand, tomato curry, transvestite, visa, water festival, weather, yangon with no comments
day 36 — i finished packing and headed into kao san road for some last minute business … first on the agenda was obtaining enough cash to keep me going in myanmar. the country has no atm machines (due to economic sanctions) so it’s impossible to withdraw money and very few places (mostly expensive hotels) […]
In australia, buddhism, life, liverpool fc, money, rants, travel on
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 […]
In life, money, rants, travel on
5 April 2009 tagged bags, bangkok, bangladesh, beggars, boat, border, breakfast, burma, bus, bus station, cereal, clinic, coffee, coins, coolie, couch surfing, couchsurfing, cricket, crowds, customs, dhaka, diahorrea, dinner, doctors, dollars, dolphins, email, ferry, fishing, flight, food poisoning, gate, hotel, immigration, india, indian border, injection, international school, internet, ipod, iv drip, jens, kassandra, khulna, mangroves, money, muslim, myanmar, official, padma river, passport, plane ticket, police, rickshaw, river, rupees, sanjida, sick, sunderban national park, sunderbans, sylwia, taka, terrorist, throwing up, travel agent, twins, visa, weapons, wifi with 3 comments
day 26 — today was a crazy, confusing day. it made me realise how retarded some countries are with regards to inter-country relationships.
while i was still recovering from the previous night’s passport dramas, i woke up at 4am (the new ipod has a nifty little alarm clock) and headed to the bus station. when i […]