Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Today was my final full day in Cambodia; my last in Mainland South East Asia, and the end of an incredible seven weeks travelling – visiting places I never thought I’d get the chance to go to; seeing things I felt lucky to have seen; experiencing things not many people get to … More Day 48 – Leaving Happyland and Leaving Cambodia – Taking Only Memories.
Vientiane, Laos: My last full day in Laos was spent getting some cultural internalisation. And what I really mean by that, is taking photos of a shit tonne of Buddahs, visiting a museum, and drinking Beer Lao with an old friend. The day started well – the sun was shining, I had a spring in … More Day 27 in South East Asia – Seeya Laos, You’ve Been A Lot More Than I Bargained For!
Vientiane, Laos: Yesterday the rain was relentless. Today even more so but with bursts of sunshine in between the downpours. In any normal situation this amount of bi-polar weather would get me down; dreariness dampens my desire and a greying sky flattens my mood. I was of an attitude though that it would not happen … More Day 25 in SE Asia – Good Things Are On The Horizon
Luang Prabang, Laos: By some kind of freak accident, after only really encountering younger travellers so far on my trip, I managed to meet two like-minded girls of a similar age to me at the airport in Hanoi; both travelling alone and both of the mindset that cultural immersion was their thing rather than the … More Day 19 in South East Asia: Hello Laos!
Scootering round a mountain, somewhere between Da Nang and Hué, Vietnam: I woke this morning to find I’d been ANNIHILATED BY MOSQUITOES! I thought I’d escaped the brutal blood-sucking monsters when I left Broome, alas, my legs now resemble some kind of pasty pink and white dot-to-dot puzzle. Soon I’ll be able to choose a … More My Very Own Top Gear Special – Day Ten and The Hai Van Pass
The mountains, somewhere near Da Nang, Vietnam: Today had by far been my favourite day in Vietnam. And even though at the time of writing this – still riding high from the endorphins of the afternoon – I felt nothing could top the experience, I knew for a fact that it was only going to … More Day Seven: Scootering For Days
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: After being in transit for what felt like an age, three flights and 18 hours later I arrived in Ho Chi Minh City; exhausted, in need of more than two hours interrupted plane sleep, and dying for a hot shower and a massage. Prior to making a decision on how … More Day One In South East Asia
So as I sit here, in the same airport I sat in almost three years ago, drinking the same wine, contemplating life, waiting for a plane to take me to my next destination, I can’t help but feel like I’ve come full circle. Not full circle in the sense that the journey has ended and … More Australia, You’ve Been Everything.
Will things be any better the second time around? Is it possible for a second experience to live up to the high expectations you set, to surpass those of the first? Was it, after all, only ever supposed to be experienced once? These are the questions I find myself trying to answer while six months … More Is The Grass Really Greener?
The end of the road in Marvel Loch came on Monday 10th October 2016 and if I was to say the last eight weeks had been uneventful then I’d be lying. At times it may have felt like I’d been imprisoned, cut off from the outside world, lacking in information and sensory overload, carrying out … More And Just Like That, It Was Over
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