I'm originally from London, England, and left everything to go travelling in October 2006, with just a one way ticket taking me to India, Singapore, Bangkok and Sydney. The rest was up to me and left largely unplanned, purposely - I wanted my travelling to take me rather than me controlling it. I had no idea how long I was going to be away for, or when, or if, I'd be back.

In the end I travelled for 15 months, spending the first 6 months travelling all around India, a long-time dream of mine, then on to Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand again, Australia, New Zealand, back to Australia, and ending with a flying visit back to London in January 2008, before moving to Ireland due to meeting an Irishman while I was travelling in Thailand - the long, exciting, incredible, convoluted road to unexpectedly end up just a short hop across the water from home!

You can read all about it in my blogs which are - just to warn you ;) - very long, and anecdotal as well as travel-tips oriented. I hope you find something useful - and maybe entertaining - in them.

I started writing a book based on my travels, while I was still away, in Australia, and finished it when I came back. Now I'm trying to get it published. I used bits of my blogs in certain parts of the book. I always wanted to write but had never written anything substantial. I think having the experience of travelling, and an instant framework for a 'story', plus writing my travelblog, was inspirational enough to get me writing properly.

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