After two days of lazing around on the beach, feasting on juicy tropical island fruit, burping lemon grass, swimming, sleeping and swimming and sleeping and swimming and drinking beer I got bored. Bored with myself – again. And a bit bored with the people around me, but I know it is not them it’s me. [...]
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A miserable forced Friday night’s stay in the water-soaked streets of Bangkok turned downside up when I met Ingrid, a social worker from Austria. I went to have a drink at the Rooftop Bar, this really cool 3rd storey grunge bar across the road from the fleapit where I live. Had the most boring 10 [...]
A miserable forced Friday night’s stay in the water-soaked streets of Bangkok turned downside up when I met Ingrid, a social worker from Austria. I went to have a drink at the Rooftop Bar, this really cool 3rd storey grunge bar across the road from the fleapit where I live. Had the most boring 10 [...]
Bangkok – Going Nowhere Slowly
Posted: October 28, 2011 in Travel and Adventure writingTags: floods in thailand, update on floods in Bangkok
Update on the floods in Thailand and Bangkok My train is not leaving. Or it is. Or maybe it is? No its not. It depends on who you talk to. I could have waited until seven thirty this evening to find out, but the potential of a woman alone being stuck on a water-logged station, [...]
Time to leave Bangkok. Quick. The rain came last night. It rained for a long time and Khao San street erupted in a flurry of scattering tourists and locals. Then it really stank! A five-day holiday was announced in Bangkok and 20 provinces to give people the chance to escape the rising waters. Bangkok Governor [...]
The Thai Government is offering around 5000 baht as a bounty for the 200 or so crocodiles that have ecaped from the many farms surrounding Bankok. Pocket money? Sitting inside a bamboo and Christmas light infested Khaosan holiday guest house, in the heart of the mad Khao San road in the heart of the equally mad [...]
“Our Tour Director described this section as “Ass Pounding Corrugation.”
Posted: October 14, 2011 in Travel and Adventure writingTags: Tour d'Afrique bicycle race and expedition
Exasperating, bewitching, schizophrenic, addictive; the African continent is an assault on your sensibilities. Legendary quotes from hard-butted riders that completed the Tour d’Afrique 12 000km longest bicycle race in the world. A war with a Zambian ant army, mosquitoes, a nocturnal bash-up with a bush pig, traffic and careless drivers, spear-wielding bandits, saddle sores, diarrhea [...]
After some tough days in northern Kenya, the world’s longest bicycle race and expedition, has just crossed the Equator, and is now in Nairobi. It’s been 2 months since the cyclists started out in Cairo, and the tour has covered 5008km. The stretch from Moyale to Nanyuki has brought changes on the race’s overall ranking. [...]
Don’t let anybody tell you that surfing is completely like, … Zen. Because it aint, well at least the learning part is not! Unless of course you grew up in Nahoon and learned to surf from your bleach blonde daddy when you were just five – on the surfboard that he made especially for you. I [...]
Marsabit, Northern Kenya, March 7, 2011 According to most of the riders on the Cairo to Cape Town bicycle race and expedition, today was the toughest day, since its departure from Egypt over a month-and-a-half earlier. Five days ago the cycling group crossed the border from Ethiopia to Moyale in Northern Kenya. “Moyale [...]
