star dust - Roseanna Starkie

so, something about me...I'm going travelling

. after spending the last two years in the servitude of sixth form I'm finally escaping and going round the world. My ticket is taking me to LA, through New Zealand, Austrailia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and China before coming home. I would call it a gap year except i'm only gone for 5.5 months...oh well.

25th Oct 16:15 London to L.A
29th Oct 21:30 LA to Auckland (NZ)
15th Dec 06:10 Christchurch (NZ) to Melbourne
18th 10:30 Melbourne to Alice Springs
23rd Dec 11:55 Alice Springs to Melbourne
Christmas and New Year in Sydney
25th Jan 13:45 Brisbane to Singapore
Overland through Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and China
28th Mar 01:40 Beijing to Manchester

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By star dust
March 17th 2009

And now, the end is near... Asia » China

Our nice hotel room
Well, it was nice until we came and messed it up

We managed to get to Nanchang alright, and then successfully navigated our way to an English speaking kiosk to buy the ticket to Nanjing. Lots of Nans, its very confusing. The train to Nanjing was going to take 19hours, so we treated ourselves to a nice room in a hotel. Oh my god. That room had the best shower I've had for ages! Anyway... In Nanjing, we spent far too much money shopping. Mostly on DVD's. :S We soon realized that that was pretty much all we'd done in Nanjing, so we went for a walk. We were looking for a [View Full Entry]

By star dust
March 4th 2009

It's bloody freezing! Asia » China

Performer
Doesnt she look cold! Pretty though

Crossing the border to China, the temperature changed dramatically. What's the first thing we did once we got to Nanning? Well Annie dug out the various jackets she had buried at the bottom of her rucksack and i went out and bought a coat. How depressing is this, it's warmer at home than it is where we are right now! And we only have t-shirts. I see a shopping spree on the horizon... We stayed in Nanning only one night, before moving on to Guilin. Both are cities and have a Manchester feel to them, but what makes us love them [View Full Entry]

By star dust
February 20th 2009

Our first fleecing Asia » Vietnam

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So I lasted two days on my plain boiled rice and dry bread diet before deciding that the doctor couldn't possibly be right in prohibiting some foods, spicy acidic and uncooked i could understand, but milk? I fell off the wagon with a soft landing into some pizza, which i can even rationalize. I'm allowed bread, the tomatoes were cooked and she never mentioned cheese. I have to say that nothing has ever tasted so nice (except of course grandmas fruit cake) After no ill effects, i carried on eating real food, steering clear of anything i thought would be a [View Full Entry]

By star dust
February 15th 2009

Wat we been up to? Asia » Cambodia

Sunset at Angkor Wat

Crossing the border was relatively painless, if a little long winded. We had to stop to leave Thailand, to cross the border and then to enter Cambodia. Surely it would be easier to have one stop? Anyway, we paid for a bus ticket to get us to Siem Reap and refused the 'offers' a tout kept giving us of paying a little extra to leave straight away and get a taxi. Eventually he admitted that they had overbooked the bus and that we could get the taxi at no extra cost. Yay! What to say about the roads in Cambodia. Well [View Full Entry]

By star dust
February 6th 2009

Heaven and Hell Asia » Thailand

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Sorry for the long absence, internet was hard to find. We're in Cambodia at the minute but I'll update by country. Anyway, leaving Malaysia, we spent the next 24 hours traveling up to Ko Tao. When i say 24hrs, i mean 24hours straight. The bus from Kota Bahru to the Thai border was 1hour. Then we had to wait for our bus for 3hrs. The train itself took 12hrs to get to Chumphon, and there were no sleeper class left, so we were in 3rd class seated. When we first got to our seats, the window wouldn't open and considering how [View Full Entry]

By star dust
January 29th 2009

In the jungle, the mighty jungle... Asia » Malaysia

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From Singapore, we got a train over the border and into Malaysia, then up to the Capital Kuala Lumpur. When we booked our hostel at Singapore, we booked one more night than we wanted so that we could leave early and not arrive in Malaysia at night. That didn't really work. We got the 2PM train and the journey was around 7hours, so we didn't get into Kuala Lumpur until gone 9pm. Luckily we had booked a hostel in advance, so we did have somewhere to go. After getting lost...twice, we finally found the hostel, which embarrassingly was basically across the [View Full Entry]

By star dust
January 25th 2009

Welcome to Asia Asia » Singapore » Little India

An extreamly large Ice cream

You may have got the impression from my other blogs, that i didn't like Australia. For the most part that is true, but i did like the north of Queensland, and Brisbane was a nice city. Cairns and Cape Trib were much more scenic. We did do more in those places, so I'm not sure if we liked the place because we did more or we did more because we liked the place. Its one of those chicken and egg type of questions. Also, I'd like to apologize for truly atrocious spelling. I had a quick read over a few of [View Full Entry]

By star dust
January 22nd 2009

Reefs, Rainforests and Ridiculously big bugs. Oceania » Australia » Queensland

arriving on the boat

The Great Barrier Reef. One of the biggest eco-systems in the world. And who went Scuba diving on it? We did! Woo! We arrived at the docks and after some confusion over where the boat actually was,we were on board and away. The tour we booked was $115 with an introductory dive included but we got upgraded to a $185 tour where the dive was an extra $100! Woo to a saving of $170! YAY!! The weather was good, a bit cloudy but warm, and the clouds cleared away later on anyway. The first thing we did once got to the [View Full Entry]

By star dust
January 17th 2009

Moving on up! Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns

Where has the road gone?
A car on the road/ in the river

After the disappointment of Airlie beach and the nonexistent Whitsundays trip, we carried on up the coast to Cardwell. It was a little shaky as to weather we would even get there, because there had been severe weather warnings, roads had been shut due to flooding and just the bad weather generally. Apparently its rainy season in the land of Oz. Whenever anyone asked where we were going next, they gave a perplexed look and said 'Cardwell? Where's that?' A little worried we'd end up in another grotty town, we boarded the bus for another glorious 7hr bus trip. When [View Full Entry]

By star dust
January 13th 2009

Pissed Off and pissing it down. Oceania » Australia

We broke up the journey to Airlie beach with a stop at Rockhampton. It was ok. We hired bikes to go into town with. I hate bikes and refuse to ever go on one ever again. The brakes didnt work. You had to peddle backwards to stop, which i figured out eventually, but not before i'd almost got run over. It was a really big drop off the pavement too. so theres no need to mention that my bum hurt a lot later on. Other than that we didnt really do anything in Rockhampton, its a bit of a boring town [View Full Entry]

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