This Country Makes Me Sick

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October 30th 2008

Published: December 8th 2008

Lhasa - Yamdrok-tso Lake - Gyantse - Shigaste - Shegar - Everest Base Camp - Old Tingri - Zhangmu This week Occasionally Bob's special guest is… Bob's Mum “Quickly! Quickly”, the carriage attendants said as they excitedly grabbed our unpacked belongings from our compartment and threw them out the carriage door onto the platform. It seemed we’d missed the wake-up call. The rest of the tra... Read Full Entry

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Bob & Vik

Occasionally Bob

Years of staring at maps, debating routes, saving money and boring anyone in earshot with constantly changing plans finally culminated in our D-Day. 28th August 2006. The day that Vik and Bob went global. Having made it to New Zealand without taking a single flight, we reached the conclusion that neither our finances nor our sea legs could stomach another container ship journey so we've cheated and taken a flight from New Zealand to Bangkok. From Bangkok we hope to stick with the overland theme and take a route home through Southern Asia: China, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey... U... full info

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Anyone for Fried Dad?

We may have been on the road for a while but just when you think you've seen all the typos and weird English translations that exist, you come across a new one.

Live Animal

This animal is alive. But I don't think it'll last long. This place gets really cold at night and this animal has a fur coat that it doesn't even know its wearing. This place has no corner shops or KFC's and this animal is strolling about wearing meat under it's fur coat. If I had a fur coat, I'd avoid wearing meat underneath it; it makes you twice as tempting to cold, hungry predators.

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