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Rockin all over the world - Laura Jane Pirie (ellie)

Have spent the last year working in Edinburgh to save for my RTW ticket (though the festival meade a bit of a dent in the savings - damn Speigletent!) Now I'm FINALLY on my way, leave tonight for Dehli. Yippee!

Update - was supposed to return to bonnie scotland in november '06 but fell in love with australia (just like so many others before me have!) and am still here.... 2007 holds travels to vanuatu (feb) new zealand (april) and finally in june home (boo) though i'll have an Aussie in tow and hopefully will get a stopover in Tokyo en route.

Update 2! I am home and planning my next trip! Start uni in September but hopefully will squeeze in trip to Africa or America and Cananda sometime in the next year.

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By Rockin all over the world
February 12th 2007

Trouble in Paradise

Oceania » Vanuatu » Efate » Port Vila

Palm

Having been in Australia since the 16th February '06 my visa was finally due to expire. I wanted to stay on in Oz for a few more months just to travel around a bit and also to give Scott more time to save for his trip home with me to the UK. Apparently all I had to do was leave the country for 24hours then I was welcome to come back for a 3 month stay on a tourist visa, but where's the fun in that? Scott and I decided to make the most of it and booked a 5 [View Full Entry]

By Rockin all over the world
February 7th 2007

One year down under!

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Sunshine Coast » Maroochydore

mary cairncross rainforest

Well it’s only been 6 months since my last blog…. Let’s see how much of the last half a year I can remember!! The last time I wrote I had just come back from travelling down the east coast with my family. When I returned I continued working as a kitchen hand in a local nursing home though I wasn’t getting nearly enough hours and needed to pick up some fruit picking work in order to extend my work visa. (By completing 12 weeks fruit picking in regional Australia my one year work visa can be extended to two years) luckily [View Full Entry]

By Rockin all over the world
July 26th 2006

East Coast Road Trip. Brisbane - Melbourne in 14 days

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

Sydney opera house

I had known for a few months that my parents were going to visit me in Oz but was very excited when a couple of weeks before my sister called to say she was coming out too. The whole Pirie family reunited again! Emma was coming out for 2 weeks and Mum and Dad for just under 3. About 2 days before I was to meet them in Brisbane airport, I got a message from Mum saying Emma had just left Edinburgh. It’s a hell of a journey, I think this is how it went; Emma left Edinburgh and traveled to [View Full Entry]

By Rockin all over the world
June 14th 2006

The land of Oz

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

sandsculpture - Noosa

I’ve been in Australia for almost four months now so it’s about time I got round to writing a blog about it! I spent my last night in Thailand in a pretty up market guesthouse just off Ko San Road. I decided to treat myself as it was my last night in Asia and I was feeling pretty sorry for myself .I had a chest infection that I’d convinced myself was the beginnings of bird flu - which given the amount of poultry I had seen/stepped over/slept beside/sat next to on buses in Laos wouldn’t have surprised me. So anyway, I [View Full Entry]

By Rockin all over the world
February 10th 2006

The Kingdom of Cambodia

Asia » Cambodia

Temples of Angkor

It's been a month or 2 since I've written my blog (sorry!) which is strange because Cambodia was my favorite country to visit and loads of exciting things happened, guess I just lost motivation for a while. But I'm back now, just hope I can remember all the little details. Last time I wrote I was booked to cross the border from Loas into Cambodia, I had been told all the way through Laos and by many guidebooks that this was the only Cambodian land border at which it was not possible to get a visa on arrival so I hung [View Full Entry]

By Rockin all over the world
January 15th 2006

The one in the land of elephants.....

Asia » Laos

Glistening temples

After parting ways with Claire and Marianne I caught a minibus up to Chiang Khong, a small town in Thailand on the border of Loas. The bus from Chiang Mai to Chiang Khong took 6 hours and I stopped over a night at the border, unfortunately my room was directly above a bar which was blaring out music all night. Since I couldn't sleep I thought I should just go down for a drink. I met up with a Scottish couple from Glasgow who are planning to marry on a Thai island in a week or 2 and stayed up drinking [View Full Entry]

By Rockin all over the world
January 12th 2006

Adventures and misadventures in Chiang Mai

Asia » Thailand » North » Chiang Mai

Elephant conservation park, Chaing Mai

After partying hard over the festive period I packed my life back into my wee purple bag and made the epic 26 hr journey from Ko Phan Ngan to Chang Mai via a tuk tuk, a boat, a bus, a plane and finally a taxi. Phew. So anyway, Claire, Marianne and I arrived Chiang Mai on the 5th January and instantly fell in love with the place. The air is clear and the city surronded by mountains. The traffic is, naturally, a lot calmer than Bangkok and the people are welcoming and smiley happy. On our first day Claire and I [View Full Entry]

Hill tribe women, Chiang Mai night market

By Rockin all over the world
January 1st 2006

buckets of fun!

Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Pha Ngan

New Year 2006

************************Happy New Year!!!***************************** I flew in from Hanoi to Bangkok on the 27th December to meet up with friends from back home. Marianne arrived on the 28th and Claire arrived on the 29th. On the night Marianne arrived we went out drinking on Ko San Road and met some, erm, interesting people including a mad mad irishman and a Gwen Stefanni lookalike from Norway who was convinced the undercover cops were after her.... The two of them together was comedy genius, i'd pay to see that again. Then, just when I didn't think things could get more surreal Claire arrived and [View Full Entry]

By Rockin all over the world
December 27th 2005

Happy Xmas from Vietnam!

Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Halong Bay

Halong Bay

I know I'm putting this up a bit late but it's been a busy 2 weeks! Thinking back to the last time I wrote I was in Nha Trang causing damage to my liver and wallet. Anyway I flew up to Hanoi on the 22nd December with the easyjet of Asia, Air Asia, and was pleasantly suprised to find it was dry there and that hotmail worked again. The first night I took it easy as I was taking a trip out to Halong Bay early the next morning. I just wondered around the Old Quarter where I found an amazing [View Full Entry]

By Rockin all over the world
December 18th 2005

Going local down in Nha Trang!

Asia » Vietnam » South Central Coast » Nha Trang

Blues Bar

"Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your naaame (dun dun dun dun) and they're always glad you came (back)." Oh yes I am STILL in Nha Trang. The weather in Northern Vietnam is awful at the moment, constant rain and reports of typhoons in Hoi An. For the last 3 days I have been trying to get the bus out of here but the rain has flooded the roads in the countryside and I am stuck. Could be really bad but I am lucky and have met some great people and am having a great time! Our days are spent [View Full Entry]