I am now in Australia, but here are some notes I scrawled ages ago as my Asia dream came to a close... Lake Toba was a hard place to escape from. If I wanted to head South, which I did, the only option by land was a 18 hour bus journey to Pedang, with nowhere to stop on the way to break up the trip. It would be through beautiful mountainous countryside, but it would be at night. And the road is a swirly bumpy nightmare I was informed. I decided I was going to do it though, and as a [View Full Entry]

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After Takengon I went to Blangkejeren, another tiny village of Sumatra's highlands and a beautiful one at that. Nobody really spoke English but I asked a phone credit store where I can get a guide and they rang one for me as they could speak a little. They rang the only one in the village, 'Mr Jally,' who was a rugged master of the jungle but whose English speking technique involved guessing whether he should reply 'yes' or 'no' to whatever I said. What time do we leave Mr Jally? Ummm, yerrrs. ( I point at watch) what time..we.. go? Oh! [View Full Entry]

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Good day, since i last wrote I have done some things, including at some point, eating cockroaches as a healthy snack. Mid December and went up to the north of Ko Phangan to a very remote beach called Hat Khom, where there was just one restaurant and one place to stay, all owned by a Thai family with a crazy gun toting dad. (when we informed dad that we were going to get a taxi bus up the road to the full moon party instead of with him as it was nearly half the price, he said ‘they are not [View Full Entry]

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Well i love Sumatra. I arrived in Medan, the gateway to sumatra about 2 weeks ago and quite liked it form the off. There were not loads of scam artists and rip off merchants, i think as tourism has dwindled here so have the numbers of mosquito men that follow them around. Any scamming attempts were pretty lame and offered some free amusement. I was there for a minute outside the terminal before one old gut followed me and sat down next to me in the cafe that i went in to escape. He pointed to the tourist office and said [View Full Entry]

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And another one.. just to bring you up to date with where I am, should you care, before I head off to another country and open a new chapter in my scintillating adventure. I headed to Langkawi, a Malaysian island, which you can catch the ferry to from Thailand. After being told the bus wouldn't leave until 3.30, despite the timetable saying the next one leaves at 3.00, we were forced to pay a higher fee to hire the entire bus between us other wise we would miss the ferry. i.e they were blatantly scamming us, on the official bus as [View Full Entry]

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And another one.. just to bring you up to date with where I am, should you care, before I head off to another country and open a new chapter in my scintillating adventure. I headed to Langkawi, a Malaysian island, which you can catch the ferry to from Thailand. After being told the bus wouldn't leave until 3.30, despite the timetable saying the next one leaves at 3.00, we were forced to pay a higher fee to hire the entire bus between us other wise we would miss the ferry. i.e they were blatantly scamming us, on the official bus as [View Full Entry]

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I haven’t been doing one of these blog type things for a while for two reasons. 1) everything has been going well so I’ve not had amusing stories to tell and 2) enjoying myself so much I didn’t want to sit on the internet moaning. It’s so sad but I don’t want your sympathy, that would just make it worse. Well after my last entry, when I was in Ko Samui and it was pissing it down, I checked the weather and headed to Hua Hin. I knew it was very touristy and resort based but it seemed to be hogging [View Full Entry]

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Dear all, I decided to head to Ko Samui, hire a motorbike and find a nice quiet little beach. When i got there it was raining and it didn't stop for the next 5 days. It's completely miserable when it's raining, the streets were overflowing up to knee height with water, the sewage system is not the best and this can cause problems. I literally thought there was a river running through the road behind my hotel, only when i saw the poor little business' in the middle of it did i realise that it was just flooding. All very eerie [View Full Entry]

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The streets are full of German geeks, I haven't seen my mum for weeks, But writing home I feel like I, Consign those feelings to the sky Before catching my flight out of Gatwick I had a all nighter night out in some London nightclub i couldn't begin to tell you where it was, but i stumbled into it. I found myself somewhere in LonDon at 6 am not knowing how to get to my hostel. I got a couple of wrong busses, then plunged for a taxi. I swooped for my bags, then headed straight off with no sleep. Well [View Full Entry]

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