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I've finally left Perth! Perth wasn't quite as hilarious or as memorable as Darwin, and is actually a bit of a bland, characterless city with little going for it. However, I will take some long lasting memories from that bland characterless city (and the month before when I visited cold, cold England for four weeks): Darwin-London-Turkey-KL-Perth *Liz, the girl from Cork who I sat next to on the way home to England and chatted for thirteen hours straight. She also had 6 toes on each foot. Nice girl, shame about the feet. Losing Liz at the airport without getting her number. *Ahmet the black Turkish dude who laughed like Frank Bruno and made my Mum pole dance in a pub in Turkey. *My trip to the passport office in Liverpool where I look like I'm on ... read more

Things I'll always remember from Darwin (at least, I will now I've written them down, six months drinking has messed with my memory somewhat): * Mine and Sarah's Passion Pop fuelled morning pool party when I crossed several new boundaries and ended up passed out at the side of Stuart Highway with an Irishman from Longford. * "Oh Kakadu, Take Me Home, To my Mountain Friends" the great Abbodiginous man who sings at Mindl Beach and always knows which of his two songs you want to hear. * The week the 5000 American sailors came to stay and Jo had to work 19 hour days. I was also working, and didn't have one night out that week. But did spend a lot of time ignoring real customers so I could flirt with them when they came ... read more

I arrived in Bangkok, after having a nice flight sat next to a nice Malaysian man who taught me all about Malaysian politics. Malaysians have a big stamp in the front of their passport saying they can't go to Israel. I know it's a reciprocity thing, but I'm glad my passport gets me in anywhere. There were TONS of Chinese teenagers on the plane, who kept taking photos of everything. They were going to Thailand on holiday for Chinese New Year that weekend. I knee-bullied the girl in front of me into moving her seat into the upright position, which wasn't my proudest moment, but I was too tired for confrontation and her tiny Chinese legs didn't need the extra room I'm certain. First day back consisted of laundry and sleeping. I also found my new ... read more

Chennai Okidokey, so I arrived at 9am in Chennai, sweating my balls off because I'd roughed it a bit and gone non-air-con. Was also slightly hungover still from the Mysore expedition, and ached like an old woman. (Which despite Indian's telling me I am, I AM NOT) I woke up at 8am, an hour before arrival, feeling pleased with myself for not missing my stop, and everyone else in the compartment was fully awake, had folded their beds away and were looking pretty pissed off with me. (If I'm still sleeping, they have to share their seats with the guy who sleeps above me) I had some omlette (again, it came with tomato sauce that the breakfastwalla went and got for me, the only foreigner, specifically) & tea and was ready to go. Sort of. I ... read more

My last night in Goa, in Paloloem (the place with too many Israelis, but just enough hummus) I met a cool French guy who was staying in the same place as me called SuperMax! He was part gypsy (but French gypsy, the cool kind, not the pikey kind) and half Polish, and had a goose as a guard dog in his house in France. He had hardly any stuff with him, and made me ashamed of my huge rucksack, which I've decided I need to repack into a smaller bag once I see one. He'd been to Goa before (it seems everyone has) and took me out to his friends bar. Turns out, the place I'd been in North Goa, Cocktails and Dreams, that had hundreds of cocktails on the menu, also has a branch in ... read more

(I *just* realised how much my title sounds like a bad porno, and reckon this post will be read ten times more than any other, but it makes me laugh, so I'm not changing it!) I arrived in Bangalore at about 5.30 in the morning, and got ripped off by the cabbie, who charged me double the standard rate. I was so tired, I didn't care, and managed to get a room at the cheapest place in the city because I'd got in his taxi so quick. Bangalore is a really big I.T. city, and lots of businessmen with too much money, so a room for less than twenty quid a night is hard to find. I managed to get one for about 7, and after I'd paid, some girls who I'd seen in my train ... read more

Incidentally, Goa-way & Czec-it-out is possibly the best name for a Eastern European-ran travel agency in the history of the world. Genius. I was supposed to stay in Goa for three weeks with my mum, but aren't actually leaving until tomorrow, precisely double the amount of time I planned. I'm not sure why because a week is enough to know Goa inside out, but I would guess it's a combination of hangovers and laziness that's kept me here so long. I flew into Cochin, in Kerala from Kuala Lumpur, which is chilled and dirty and has a lot of churches and goats and cows and nice people. I met a girl who'd being teaching in North India for three months, and hated me on sight because I was wearing a mini-skirt (everything else was dirty) and ... read more

Okay, so it's been a while since I've written anything here, which means, yes, every country in the world (or at least Asia) is better than China. I've written half of this blog before, and lost it due to a shitty internet connection, so I'm just going to write a list of what I did, with as little punctuation as possible: *Realised on the bus from the airport that i'd lost all my social skills in China and couldn't flirt back properly when a Chileno started talking to me. Felt a bit giddy, i was so excited to be out of China. *met a girl from Cardiff Uni on the bus from Bangkok airport and drank cider before we found our hidden hostel *went to a club on ko san road, got free whisky from a ... read more

Well, I'm in Thailand. Most of you know how much I love it already, and am heading to the beach tomorrow. Thais are good looking, especially the ones with dreads (but muy muy short). and the only thing pissing me off is that my cheap hotel has apparently given me bed bus. I have a spotty arm, but it's not contagious, so who cares? I'll get back to you when I'm bored. (December)... read more

Hello!!! I'm in Macau! Guilin was a nice place, and about 30 degrees, it's good to be warm, I find. I'd taken a soft sleeper, and it was lovely, I bunkered down for the full 30 hour journey with my noodles and oranges and slept for a good 20 of those hours. I think the Chinese people in my cabin thought I was ill, and so brought me hot water every now and again. Train down there arrived four hours late, so I drank some beers, didn't get bit by any mosquitoes (who, if I haven't mentioned, have been voraciously feasting on my dirty blood for some time now), ate some noodles and hit the sack. Tried to work out where in Thailand I want to go, but established that everything sounds the same, and I'm ... read more