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Nomads in the UK Couchsurfing with friends
Since arriving back after 16 months on the road, we embarked on a journey in the UK couchsurfing with friends around the country. With no real base, we saw...
China Pakistan border lies and a fantastic bus journey
Karimabad, Pakistan and the first hot shower for 5 days clean clothes and great food. It is times like this that you really appreciate when you are on the...
Northern China Over the Himalayas
So can you guess which way I chose? I arrived in Xi'an in Northern China after another 16 hour 12 hour bus journey (they promised 12 hours, but of course it...
Busy Bees
And so we arrive in Delhi. It’s like everyone said it would be – absolute chaos! The image that sprang into my mind as we screamed our way through traffic to...
Pt 3- Power and patience
Day 5- Power Once more, rising to the roof to survey the waves. Once more, enormous, washed-out. At least I got to rock a different board- a 8’...
Part 2- Into the groove
Day 3- Settling in Surf- An endless sleep and lie-in, leisurely breakfast and still early for the 10am muster. More good lessons- keep heading...
Lanzarote Surfing Trip, The Beginning
Day 1- En Route Left well before the crack of dawn for my Lanzarote surfing trip, the feeble sun barely showing up halfway to Heathrow. The usual drowsy...
Country roads and Kunming
I took a night bus at 19.30 from Shangri-la bus terminal to Kunming (205Yuan- 12 hours). The beds are never long enough, even for me at 1m 76. A few people...
The Balkans- a Bleak Understanding
I said good bye to my dear friend Ivanka and walked for 20 minutes to the road that goes north west out of the city and stuck out my thumb, but it was...
Beijing sightseeing
OK, so other than just becoming random economo-political creatures, we also actually did/saw stuff in Beijing. Like: - Tiananmen Square. Famous/ infamous...
Beijing Beijing Beijing
(to the tune of ’Finland, Finland, Finland’ by the Monty Python-ers.) If India and Japan are polar opposites then Beijing nestles somewhere in the middle...
Of baseball and karaoke
After a stint of temple gazing in Kyoto it was back on the big old bus to Tokyo, only this time I would not be greeted by the u-bend of a toilet with more...
Traditional Kyoto
Kyoto is the heart of ancient, traditional Japan. You can’t go 100 yards without stumbling across an archaic – but beautifully preserved – temple, shrine or...
Japan – first impressions
So, India and Japan are polar opposites. In India, it was frequently too hot to go outside. In Japan, it seems that every time we set foot outdoors we get...
Shanghai Scam
I did not even realise it was a scam until I told my story to some other travellers in Tai An a week after it had happened.... Two innocent looking girls...
Shangri-la
Past greetings from China! I thought that Shangri-la was in India somewhere. I know it was the name of a bungalow we took as a weeks hoilday at a long time...
Last Night in Vietnam
I was sitting alone as the Chilean girl I had met in Halong Bay went back to Hanoi. Drinking my beer I began pondering China. I am as nervous as hell -...
Thang Beng to Vinh
Oh what it is like crossing from Laos to Vietnam using Route 8 from Thang Beng to Vinh (Route 8 turn-off on north south route 13 in Laos). I picked up a...