1 June 2008

Arrived in Sandakan

Just in from the jungle and the mountain

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24 May 2008

First Impressions

It's just like Cairns...without the box jellyfish

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9 October 2006

An escape from travel

Pete's jumped to the other side of the travel desk. Find him at Escape Travel Bondi Junction...

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31 July 2006

From wall to duck

Day 2 - The Great Wall of China and Beijing duck

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30 July 2006

21 days - Beijing to St Petersburg on the train

Day 1 - I meet my group and have some dinner.

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3 July 2006

While Tallinn Sleeps

At 6am in the morning the streets were almost empty. There were 3 drunks wandering home from the last bar to close. The only sounds to be heard were from the birds...

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28 June 2006

Summer in St Petes

It’s now twenty past twelve and I’ve only just turned on the lights...

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3 May 2006

Little Naadam in Big Sky Mongolia

July in Mongolia is all about the Naadam festival. Centred around Ulaanbaatar these annual national games are drawing more and more tourists every year to Mongolia...

Article by Scott Spencer

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2 March 2006

Reflections on China: Lily Feet

Thoughts on the outdated practice of foot binding

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21 February 2006

Weekend Away

..Off to LA, that's where I'll stay for 2 days...

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7 February 2006

Big Wave Contest

24 hours notice for a one day, once a year surf comp at California's premier big wave spot.

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6 February 2006

Strong Beer Month

February is strong beer month at the Magnolia. That means I'm staying in San Fran...

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30 November 2005

Heading home...again

It's been a fun year of living and working abroad. There's plenty more travelling coming up but now I'm glad to be returning home for a while.

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8 November 2005

I'm leaving on a choo-choo train...

...be back again next year :)

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29 July 2005

Late night emails

A quick note from the late night beijing office vodka crew.

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17 June 2005

I wear my sunglasses at night…

…so I can, so I can cut out the midnight sun when I’m trying to sleep.

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28 May 2005

Picnic at Terelj National Park

MIRANDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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6 April 2005

Meeting the Intrepid Family

I'm sitting here in my little hotel room just off the main square in Cesky Krumlov...

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8 March 2005

Something that was not meant to be is done...

...this is the start of what was.

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21 February 2005

Today it snowed

Very exciting day!

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14 February 2005

German invasion

This time it was with Ryan Air rather than the Luftwaffe but London was hit pretty hard. And it turns out he wasn't just here to pick up an uniform from his friend Harry.

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9 January 2005

Living in London

A list of a few things that ARE and AREN'T London in terms of my experience so far.

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30 September 2004

A week back in Berlin

Mochtest du ein bissen Aussie?

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20 August 2004

VDNKh...

...or in other words the Vystavka Dostizheny Narodnogo Khozyaystva SSSR

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19 August 2004

Chilling in Moscow

Smiles anyone?

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13 August 2004

Lake Baikal

20% of the world's fresh water!

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9 August 2004

Mongolia

Not much here

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4 August 2004

Scribbles from the Olympic City 2008

So the overland train journey from China to Finland has begun!

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25 June 2004

The Quiet Australian

Just arrived in Ho Chi Minh City

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20 June 2004

On the road again

This place actually isn't half bad

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19 May 2004

Back home

It's good to be back.

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8 May 2004

It's up to you...

If you don't like New York then you just don't like cities.

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28 April 2004

I can't believe it's not Europe!

Wish I'd brushed up on my French

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23 April 2004

GO HABS!

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14 April 2004

Hey Canada!

Back to another non-english speaking country (kinda).

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3 April 2004

Edinburgh Castle and Scottish Whisky

One of the best castles so far.

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24 March 2004

I'm in London still

Yeah it's expensive but it seems like a great place to live.

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12 February 2004

About travelling

“Why do you tend a flock of sheep?”
“ Because I like to travel.”

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30 January 2004

4 countries in 3 days

A doorstop tour of Western Europe

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13 January 2004

Blame Canada

Link to Mike's weblog of his journey through America's sunny north.

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11 January 2004

Tying one on

Bars and clubs in Mitte

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3 January 2004

Fünf, vier, drei, zwei, eins…

Christmas and New Years in Berlin.

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23 December 2003

Frohe Weihnachten

Merry Christmas

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10 December 2003

From Aussie to Ossie

It's cold, damn cold.

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9 November 2003

I am a Berliner...really!

Settling down at last!

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2 November 2003

Sex, drugs and wooden shoes

No, not everyone in Holland has pot.

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11 October 2003

Back in Berlin

At least this time you can get cold beer.

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23 September 2003

Ruined!

It's worth seeing but it must have been so much better before

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12 September 2003

Hello Turkey

Someone please find me a country I don,t totally love.

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9 September 2003

Goodbye Greece

Jumping off stuff and drinking, that's my Greece experience!

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29 August 2003

Goodbye Ios

It hurts to leave!

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10 August 2003

Sunday in Crete

Where everything's closed except the internet.

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1 August 2003

Ios Party Island

Not only am I not learning new stuff, I'm forgetting things I used to know.

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25 July 2003

Ich bin ein Berliner

Beer, bockwurst and buildings

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13 July 2003

loverules

The Berlin Love Parade 2003

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10 July 2003

Thats it for Italy

Next stop Berlin

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4 July 2003

Lipari

Old rocks/news rocks

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27 June 2003

Amalfi to Matera

It's hot everywhere here, the only difference is if you can jump into the ocean or not.

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21 June 2003

Napoli

Naples is good.

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17 June 2003

Rome is hot!

I'm certainly not in Japan anymore, they cook their meat and I can (almost) read the signage.

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11 June 2003

Last night in Japan

Leaving tomorrow for the land of coffee.

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6 June 2003

The Ancient Capital

This is the most modern ancient capital I've ever seen.

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4 June 2003

Kids with c#*ks

It was the last thing I expected to see when I was given the tip that Matsumoto was a unique place to visit.

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29 May 2003

Being let loose in the country

A car, a map, a dictionary, and now a gun!

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27 May 2003

First news from the road

Missed two Japanese traditions but still having one hell of a time!

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