PART TWO So this part covers Laos. I've been here three weeks now, so it's a looong story. So we slept one night at the border still in Thailand: Chiang Khong. We had our last nice meal, because I have to admit, if Thailand is good for something, it must be the food. It's delicious! The next day, we took the boat over the mekong (5 minutes) to Houei Xai. Apparently they still love the French after the colonisation because french people pay 30 USD for their visa and poor Belgians pay 35 USD! After that we took a hobbly-bobbly bus [View Full Entry]

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Hello, long time no write! Ok, I'll write in two parts...One: cambodja/thailand Two: Laos PART ONE My last message was somewhere in Sihanoukville (Cambodja) as far as I can remember. So we go back in time, exactly one month ago... After spending enought time in Sihanoukville we (Ann, Shane and me) would leave to the highlight of Cambodja: the temples of Angkor Wat! I have to admit, before I went there, I didn't really know much about all the temples. I expected ONE big temple, but I got a lot more.... We stayed in the Angkor Hilton (3 euro's a night) [View Full Entry]

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Hello. At the moment I am in Cambodia! It is an.....'interesting experience'. After leaving Perth I flew to Melbourne, wich should have taken me 3 hours instead of 12. We were trapped in the plane for about 6 hours without food. After spending a 1.5 day in Melbourne I went to Sydney where I took the plane straight to Singapore! I expected a very clean, boring city without a soul, but I got a very clean, interesting, asian city! I really like it, to my own surprise! I myself stayed in Little india. It is crazy, it is really like India, [View Full Entry]

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Hello again. I've been in Perth now for almost five weeks, and I will leave West Australia in one week... It has been an 'up and down' experience. In the beginning I was glad to find some rest from travelling all the time and being in civilisation... But after the first joy... being in civilisation made me somehow sad. All the capitalistic aspirations come back to you, even without realizing. Suddenly you need "nice" clothes again, you need some deodorant ( you can't smell anymore), you want to 'have' things (books, cd's,...), you want to do things (going to the movies, [View Full Entry]

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Hi everybody, it is time to give you some more information again. Sorry about my Flemish last time.. I just started thinking suddenly in Flemish because my parents and brother would arrive shortly. I also have to mention for the next period I won't have any pictures on my blog, because two camera's are broken at the moment and the pictures of the last three weeks went straight to Belgium on the airplane.. Anyway! After Tonga, my family came to visit me in Australia. It was a big change for me, to suddenly travel in the luxury of hotelrooms, and being [View Full Entry]

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Maolo e Lei lei, zoals ze hier in Tonga zouden zeggen! Ondertussen breng ik mijn laatste dagen door in 'The kingdom of Tonga' dat zomaar eventjes bestaat uit 171 eilandjes, waarvan ik er zelf, drie bezocht heb. Nogmaal om de verwarring tegen te gaan: ik ben NIET (meer) in NIEUW-ZEELAND en ook NIET in AUSTRALIE! Tonga is een land op zich, in de pacific! ( dichtbij Frans Polynesie, Fiji, Nieuw-Caledonie,...) Toen we aankwamen, werden we aan de luchthaven onmiddellijk opgehaald door Toni. Een 60+ Brit, die hier ondertussen al 18 jaar woont, volledig verbitterd en doordrongen van zwartgallige humor... bizar. De [View Full Entry]

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Hi! Again some weeks flew by... (while reading this listen to 'in rainbows' from radiohead on myspace: perfect!). So the appointment was 28th of february in Dunedin! And there we were, all four of us..aaand the car! Miles, ann, annaig and me (USA, France, Belgium). We didn't know about all the adventures that we would have together yet, but we knew it would be fun! I was prepared for the coldest and wetest weeks of my whole travel, with an extra sleeping bag and a woolen scarf and beeny. The summer is almost over, and we are in the South of [View Full Entry]

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Hi! So me and Miles worked one week in the dangerous kitchen, my hands were soaking and I had enough of the strange life-style of our host. We had to go and pee in the garden to safe water and more odd stuff like that... Miles wanted to stay four days longer than me, while I would do a 3 day trek with Steve (uk) in the abel tasman National park. But the same day I left, Alex (our host=50 year old hippie woman) threw him out because he had done his laundry without asking (but she was never at home). [View Full Entry]

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Owkay! Where was I? Ow yeah... I arrived on the South Island, after I think a three hour-journey through the beautiful Marlbourough sounds. Incredible views! I stayed in Picton for one day, did a little walk in the bay, drunk an awful Milkshake, enjoyed my first bike ride on New-zealand territory (I miss my bike!!!!). And there I decided to go to Blenheim the next day and start working in a vineyard! In blenheim, I found a nice backpakershouse, where could stay for a longer time. I decided to stay there for at least ten days. The same day I looked [View Full Entry]

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Hello everybody. Sorry that it took me so long. But internet is getting more expensive and I am getting cheaper. What happened? (read with Indian accent). Napier: 7-11 january So I left you when I was on my way to Napier. I stayed there a few days in a backpackers where a lot of people were actually living, which made it somekind of nice cosy house, full of nice food everyday. I learned to make dumplings with the Japanese, dapmfnudln with the germans.. Also Napier 'an sich' was interesting because I finally could see some 'interesting' architecture. In 1931 there was [View Full Entry]

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