The Thai goaly kicks the ball down the opposite end of the red dirt soccer/football pitch. Thai shaved head heads the ball skyward, tattooed Thai lad passes to Aussie lad, Aussie lad slots it behind the goaly with the left foot in the corner of the bamboo goals, followed by cheers and high 5's all round! D-1 Trek- We {ME n Laura, Luke(UK), 2 other Germans gals, a Swiss couple & 5 frenchies) jumped in the Ute/taxi and drove 2 hrs with a stop at the market for supplies to a small village for lunch. Then we set off walking through [View Full Entry]

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Standing @ the urinals in the toilets of the disco-tec (club in Chang Mai) & someone starts massaging my shoulders & calf's! So naturally I'm a bit freaked, i turn & it is 2 little Thai toilet attendants "it ok, It ok!" Cool then keep it up! I finish up and they wash & dry my hands then do some chiropractic gear on me, cracking my neck & back a few times, top stuff all set to hit the dance floor again! (& try to avoid all the Thai prostitutes advances!) Me n Laura got into Chang Mai after a 16 [View Full Entry]

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The backpacker St that is a well padded landing zone for the jet lagged traveler. Is a real eye opener, about a k long, full of bars, restaurants, pad Thai & beer Chang vendors, clothes & souvenir shops, neon signs, hippy lookin expats, fresh fruit carts, travelers and backpacks all round. Welcome to Khoa San Rd, Bangkok! I landed in Bangkok 18hrs after i left Edinburgh, tired & keen to get to Khoa San & find a guest house. I eventually found the bus into the city & while i was waiting i chatted to a German gal (Laura). We got [View Full Entry]

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Haggus, neeps & tatties, what a way to leave scotland! I megabused it from london to edinburgh over night, 10 hrs later i got into town & got a hostel. I was buggered as, due to havin 0 sleep but i thought i better get out and tour about. i went & checked out St mary's church, 2 modern art museums (free entry, luvin it!) then a walk around the castle park. next day i megabused it up to invernes where i stayed with doug (he is stayin in town in his grannys house) cheers mate. Friday night went to have [View Full Entry]

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"The Kamikaze skier" I come ripping down this really nice black run for the first time (steep as @ first then is a really top run) The sun is beating down under the bright blue sky, really nice snow @ higher altitude but as you get lower the snow was starting to melt and get slushy & form hazardous mounds everywhere! Should i try and slow down!? Nar go hard or go home! Next thing i know i get some air and come down & land on 1 of the mounds of snow thus resulting in a mass of skis, limbs [View Full Entry]

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Big expensive hotels as far as the eye can see, KFC, Pizza hut, rich European & English people all round, Sharm is soo bloody touristy! I’m glad I’m only staying a night ! But the next day when I went down to the beach front and saw the masses of scantily clad women draped over deck chairs and swimming in the H2O, I guess I could probably get use to it! I went up to Newiba from dahab (where U get the ferry to Jordon) very quite & I stayed in a little hut that let tones of mozzies in to [View Full Entry]

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1 of early Christianities only surviving churches named after the “legendary” martyr, St Kat! Kat was tortured on a spiked wheel for her Christianity & beheaded. But angels took her body up to the highest peak in Egypt! Bit of trivia for ya. Me n Pete did a day trip out to the monastery. We got there in the morn after a 2 hr drive through the barren, rocky Sinai dessert. We checked out the Byzantine church, Moses’s well (which if you drink from provides u with marital bliss!) & the burning bush . Then we began the pilgrimage up the [View Full Entry]

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After 17 hrs on da bus (which stopped every hour or so, for no other reason that I could see than that the driver needed a ciggy!) it was so good to get into Dahab. We went & had brekky (10ep=2 bucks) then checked out the scene & then had a swim & pulled up a deckchair on the h2o to catch some rays. The next week consisted of snorkelling, big seafood feeds, she-sha, getting hassled to go into shops or restos, batgammin & a beer, sunsets, a day trip to blue hole for a snorkel & a day trip to [View Full Entry]

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Haggle tips for the wise! * There first price will be at least 50% more than what they will except. * Pretend not really to want the item u r tryin to get. * Don't let a guy take u into a shop, because his commission will be added on the price. * Start low & don't budge much. * Begin to walk off @ least once. * Sit & have a tea & a she-sha with the owner. On the 1 hand no one likes gettin ripped off but when u think about it, it;s usally a tiny amount of [View Full Entry]

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"We'll be drinkin birra stella when she comes!" "We'll be drinkin birra stella when she comes!" "Singin yi yi yippy yippy yi!" If you had happened to be around a particular area on the banks of the Nile river between Aswan & Luxor, on this particular night! You would have been treated to my singin & dancing around a fire joined by a bunch of Bediwan kids & Cpt'n Happy & crommy bangin out on the drums! Top Craic! We enbarked on our 2 nite falucca journey in the arve with our fellow passangers (An old canadian couple, french couple, japanese [View Full Entry]

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