One thing that keeps me laughing as I have been walking around is all the scooters. At the front of the queue at the lights there will be a bunch of scooters, revving the engine waiting to go, then when the lights change its like a swarm of bees buzzing down the road as they weave around each other. I'm comfortable now with the 'showing eye contact shows you are weak' when it comes to crossing the road... just look forward and walk... you will know how close it was by the rushing of wind behind you as they go past. [View Full Entry]

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Well its been a pretty busy few days but its been great. Got the hostel around 8am, checked in then decided to go for a walk with a Brazilian girl who had just checked in as well. It was just to stretch the legs before having a sleep but we ended walking around half of Rome... Colosseum, Circus Maximum, across the Tiber over the Isola, Campo di Fiori, Piazza Navona, Panthenon, Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain... it was great. For most of the time we just wandred along following the flow of the people, wherever they were going. Stumbling on the the [View Full Entry]

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Wel currently waiting at the airport in KL.. I think they are still on dial up here, man its slow. [View Full Entry]

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Getting from Dubai to Vienna was drama free - got picked up from the hotel in a brand new Cadillac and this driver was actually careful about the car, no near misses on this trip. Dubai airport is something different, the place is seriously lacking in places to eat and seating. You walk straight in amongst the shops and it seems like catching your flight is of secondary concern. Once you go upstairs to where the departure gates are there is people laying around everywhere because of the lack of accessible seats - most of the level is partitioned off for [View Full Entry]

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In the morning their offsider arrived and she spoke good English, sorted out money and things. I was going to go for a walk around but didn’t get to it, just checked my email. Couldn’t see the big dog that they had, well I assume he was big going by the barking he had been doing last night when I turned up. Before I had left Australia Monica has said to make sure I had some warm clothes and good shoes as it was minus 15 the night before and they had a foot of snow. Well not today… yes it [View Full Entry]

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Got up a bit before 6am to get to the station for the 6:40am train. Said good bye to Julia and timed a bus to the station pretty well. The board wasn’t yet saying what platform my train was going to be on, just that it was late. But of course the dickhead taxi drivers were everywhere and hassling the shit out of me. After walking up and down a few times I went and grabbed some Maccas for brekkie. By the time I finished the train was up on the board and I checked out the platform. There was a [View Full Entry]

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Had a bit of sleep-in in the morning and when I got up I was hearing from the Istanbul kids all about the night out they had. Damn I was regretting not being able to. They had seen some extremely hot girls getting up on the bar and stripping off, dancing. “Ireland” (we all ended up using the country of someone’s origin instead of their name) said she was in no way bisexual but she would’ve jumped at the chance to try it with these girls. And I spent the night watching some paedophile perving on young girls. Damn damn damn. [View Full Entry]

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I was up a bit before 7 in the morning to go driving out to the ruins of the real life Dracula’s castle. Now I had made a big mistake in hiring this car that I hadn’t worked out yet. 1. they drive on the other side of the road, which means the rest of the car is to your right not to your left 2. the car was a manual and I drive an auto, so I was changing gears with the wrong hand 3. the map that the hostel had provided me was not so good for driving - [View Full Entry]

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Felt a little seedy the next morning and didn’t get going until about 11am. Retraced my way back to the train station and got myself a ticket to Bucuresti (Bucharest is the English version), which is a two hour train ride south on the Wallachian plain. 42 lei for a first class seat, or 38 for second class... seemed like a no brainer and I thought better to pay a little bit more and be looked after a bit better away from the gypsies, but turns out when I got on the train it was one big carriage. First class was [View Full Entry]

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In the morning went and had a look at the Black Church. There was a lot of police and military police cars outside, some VIP was getting a guided tour through the church at the time. I went in for a look and sat in a pew to soak in the atmosphere. There was some security wandering around and giving me death stares, walking past me trying to see inside my jacket. Big, mean looking buggers they were, looking like angry Mirat Safins too. When the VIP went past there was about 6 around him and they all glared their way [View Full Entry]

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