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Hi, I'm John, and welcome to my travel blog around south-east Asia (and Australia).

I'm a Britisher from London who had a job but when that came to an end (arghhh, sad huh?) and I also turned the spectacular age of 28 years old I took off for some long term travelling (as well as to take advantage of the Australian working holiday visa)

With this blog I'll try to be as honest and truthful as possible (for my own sanity and as a nice 'lil record in years to come). Come join me.

P.S. Feel free to leave comments or contact me using the options below each entry, it's awfully nice to get messages y'know!

Here's my itinerary:

Myanmar (formerly Burma) - Feb 9th 2009 (one month)

Thailand (formerly Siam) - March 10th 2009 (one month and ongoing)

Laos (formerly Kingdom of Lan Xang or Land of a Million Elephants) - as soon as possible - Early May for one week or two

Vietnam (Vietnam has been called by many different names: Văn Lang during the Hùng Vương Dynasty, Âu Lạc during the An Dương Vương dynasty, Nam Viet during the Trieu Dynasty, Van Xuan during the Anterior Lý Dynasty, Đại Cồ Việt during the Đinh dynasty and Anterior Lê Dynasty. Starting in 1054, Vietnam was called Đại Việt (Great Viet). During the Hồ Dynasty, Vietnam was called Đại Ngu (Hán tự: 太虞). ) - Middle of May (one month)

Cambodia(formerly Kampuchea) - Early to middle of June (a week, mainly for the magnificent Angkor Wat)

Malaysia(formerly British Malaya) - Middle of June (two weeks)

Republic of Singapore (formerly British Singapore) - Middle of June (couple days)

Australia - probably Perth or Melbourne first Middle of June (12 months)

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By Sepulchre
November 20th 2009

Slave to the wage: A pom at work Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane

Introducing....the yellow machine

Hello again! - It's been a while hasn't it? Don't worry, disaster hasn't struck me (yet) nor have I run off with a Jillaroo into the outback; But I have been taking a breather from writing after laying my hat down in Brissie. So, what the hell have I been up to? When I wrote last I'd managed to find a job and a house-share in pretty quick succession. It seems like aeons ago now but you'll be glad to know that I still have that job and still have a roof over my [View Full Entry]

By Sepulchre
October 21st 2009

Brisbane and the work/house thing Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane » Mt Coot tha

Wicked Game...

What’s Going On Brisbane seems to have a festival going on every week. And the good thing is it’s usually free. Since I’ve been here there has been the broad-ranging cultural Brisbane Festival, the 150th Brisbane City Anniversary, Brisbane Writer’s Festival and this weekend starts the Valley Fiesta. I managed to be around when the most spectacular festival of all climaxed occurred: the RiverFire spectacle, basically a massive fireworks display on the Brisbane River. I reckon a couple of hundred thousand people were camped up and having picnics along the ri [View Full Entry]

By Sepulchre
October 14th 2009

Living not travelling: in Brisbane Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane » Central Business District

Weather forecast...
Good!

Settling in So, I was staying at the Billy Tin Backpacker Hostel on George Street and like other backpacker joints I’d previously stayed in there were a lot of-long termers. In amongst all this were the other the transient folk from Germany, France, Korea, Taiwan who were working as slave labour in fruit picking. Or the Germans/French who were out here and were so bloody young it was painful. It was a strange environment to be in; half-student house, half-hostel, with everyone cooking in the kitchen of an evening and DVDs/TV being shown constantly. You then saw the sa [View Full Entry]

By Sepulchre
October 8th 2009

Rocky and then Brissie Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Rockhampton

My train arriving at Proserpine Station....

Rocky and Reaching my Destination Towards the end, I couldn't wait to get off the good ship Whitehaven. The Kiwi skipper fulfilled his job description with an awfully trite speech: "I hope you had a great time because I know we had a great time!". We all just stared at each other blankly but he kept going wihilst I wanted to jump overboard... it was excruciating... I've never wanted something so bad to end. Escaping the boat and back on shore Heather, Anne and I were more than ready for lunch. We stopped off at the Magnum B and had, (it [View Full Entry]

By Sepulchre
September 27th 2009

Heading on down the Queensland Coast Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Whitsundays

Cairns to Proserpine

Hear My Train a Comin’ I now left sunny tropical Cairns and its hostels which seemed to be brimming with German backpackers and headed southwards along the South Pacific coast. This time it would be different: no more catching lifts with random strangers; no more endless hours of driving, filling up at the gas station or more sadly camp sites. No, over here on the east coast there was the novelty of a railway line, several in fact - which after all of the road travel I had done since Perth seemed very appealing. I briefly considered taking the Greyhound bus [View Full Entry]

By Sepulchre
September 23rd 2009

Diving and Rafting in 'Paradise' Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns » Cairns City

Cairns bay
mudflats baby!

"Ladies and gentlemen: welcome to paradise I mean Cairns" - pilot of Jet Airways Flight JQ 58 from Darwin to Cairns. I know what the pilot meant as I peered out of the window; from the air this place is paradise, with an glimpses of the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest reef, bigger than the UK and the only living thing visible from the Moon! I’ll add loads of various facts of the bloody thing later because it’s one of those things that you are sort of ‘required’ to do if you are a sensible breathing living human being. Apparently. [View Full Entry]

By Sepulchre
September 13th 2009

Kakadu National Park Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Kakadu National Park

Lift wanted: the poster

Catching another lift Before I left Darwin, I had to do one last thing and that was to see Australia’s largest national park called in a typically Australian way, Kakadu. Not only is it chock-full of wildlife unique to Kakadu alone but it’s also a UNESCO World Heritage site, containing ancient rocks as well as aboriginal rock art - truly a must-see. Of course I didn’t have transport or a driver’s license to rent a car to go so I put another poster up around hostels asking for a lift from anybody going that way. Enter Kathrin and Tine from Germany [View Full Entry]

By Sepulchre
September 11th 2009

Dribbling into Darwin Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Darwin » City of Darwin

Border into NT

Getting into Darwin We left Kunnunurra in the morning, joining the Victoria Highway and shortly afterwards entering the state of Northern Territory, commonly referred to as the Top End. It literally is the top end of Australia and with a population of only 200,000 and a land mass of 1,400,000 square km. Big. It has a big old way to go until we got to Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory. We stopped at Gregory National Park named after A C Gregory, a Scotsman who explored this coast in the 19th Century and who left an impressive inscription of his [View Full Entry]

By Sepulchre
September 2nd 2009

A Town Called Broome Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Broome

Dog in car at drive-thru

Welcome to welcoming Broome Broome: population 14,000 We were driven around Broome by our tour guide - who helpfully pointed out all of the pubs and bars that we should go to. I’m not entirely sure if anyone was really listening either because they were still pissed (the juvenile clique on board) or tired (the rest), or as in my case - just skeptical. The places all looked like large boozers on quiet tidy streets and not Greenwich Village as she made it sound, but then this was her hometown. Aussies are often very matter-of-fact and in the case of Aboriginal [View Full Entry]

By Sepulchre
August 28th 2009

Broome to Darwin - 4x4 Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Bungle Bungles

Drunk cans of Emu Export
Grog of choice for "abos", oh and John and Locky

Travelling with Locky So, Locky and I left Broome in a large 4 by 4, full with 24 cans of Emu Export beer and food for the camping trip ahead. I mention the beer because it’s the beer of choice for the Aboriginals in this part of the world, cheap and cheerful which the locals don’t touch, either because of the taste or the negative association.But we were drinking it! Not only that but once we got onto the thin two lane road of the outback we were a-cruising and when you’re a-cruising that’s with absolutely nothing on the road or [View Full Entry]

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