Rockin all over the world

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 it was the right time of year to get some strawberry picking work in the local area and so a move north to the fruit picking capital of Bundaberg wasn’t necessary. I started working at ... read more

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 confused the Thai’s as much as I had the Cambodians by ordering glass after glass of hot lemon juice and honey and slept an obscene amount before making a few last minute purchases and heading ... read more

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 Thai tequila with them, some local Thai's and a Laos immegration officer. We played pool and ate pork barbequed on the campfire until the wee small hours. I got to bed at 5AM and set ... read more

************************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 we ended up in a bitch fight with some ladyboys over a game of pool and walked home soaking wet up Ko San Road at 8AM after playing "Flip Flop water polo" with some Dutch ... read more

"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 in Blues Bar watching DVD's and nights are spent drinking in the Why not? bar. For the last 3 nights everyone has come out as (apparently) it's my last night. Last night I finally found ... read more