Day 655: Monty Python’s Floating Circus
17.10.10: ROLL UP! ROLL UP! For one day only: the magnificent, the hilarious, the intrinsically fascinating BLOKE WHO’S NOT FROM AROUND HERE! Yes, I get stared at a lot. Usually…
Day 654: Time and Tide
16.10.10: The most irritating thing in the world – aside from Russell Brand – is when your infernal debit card gets declined at a foreign ATM because the bank assumes…
Day 653: As The Miller Told His Tale
15.10.10: First things first, I called the ferry company and found out when the next ship to Borneo was departing – not today but tomorrow, but that’s better than a…
Day 652: You Don’t Know Jakarta
14.10.10: Thursday took a while to get going. While my fellow travellers (in another cabin and arguably less full of Johnnie Walker) were rudely awoken at the crack of dawn…
Day 651: Lion City
13.10.10: Singapore! World’s End! You can get here all the way across the mega-continent of Eurasia from John O’Groats to Raffles via the Channel Tunnel, the Urals and the causeway…
Days 649-650: To The Ends Of The Earth
11.10.10-12.10.10: After two hours kip (I actually didn’t bother using my bunk – the communal area of the backpackers did just as well), by 7.30am I was shovelling breakfast into…
Day 648: The Golden L-Shape
10.10.10: BANG! Before my brain could register where I was and what was going on, the front of the bus bounced a good foot off the ground, jolting my fellow…
The PLAN!!!
So here we are, 180 countries down and just 20 to go – it’s mad to think that I only left Shanghai just over two weeks ago, and in that…
Day 646: Slumdong Millionaire
08.10.10: After a good couple of hours kip, I was roused by Thro on his way out to work. I started uploading my epic Korea blog now that I could…
Day 645: Charlie Don’t CouchSurf
07.10.10: Arrived Saigon at about 9am and scooted over to District 1 to meet up with me auld mucka Stan, here in South East Asia on holiday with his soon-to-be…