High hopes and low expectations

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December 10th 2018

Published: December 13th 2018

There's a certain tragedy in travelling with lots of time but very little money. It's the tragedy of choice and chance. The choice lies in how you spend that little money you have got, the chance lies in the dividend of your choice. You mostly have but one chance, and whether your choice pays of is a matter of the wisdom on which your decision is based and... luck. Furthermore earlier choices effe... Read Full Entry

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Wasur National Park

Imperial pigeon I believe

Wasur National Park

Saw this in Sulawesi too

Wasur National Park

Orchid

Merauke

Wildlife in my bathroom

Merauke

Church

Merauke

The old quarter of town, with some low Dutch colonial era buildings

Merauke

Street

13th December 2018

RENanDREW
Ren & Andrew

"There's a certain tragedy in travelling with lots of time but very little money"
You had me hooked with the first line...because the converse of that statement in also tragic in many ways. It's very interesting reflecting on how we have changed in our travel habits. Older and wiser? Or older and less able to compromise on what we want? :)

13th December 2018

His Dudeness
Ralf Kreuze

The reverse is indeed equally tragic
But I am not unhappy with the change, I think to keep travel interesting we have to change. Otherwise we wouldn't keep it up.

14th December 2018

Home and Away
Bob Carlsen

I'm like your present me...
a flashpacker. I would add air conditioning to the list of must have amenities...unless there is a sea breeze. I once raised the issue of cost benefit with a couple who spent three months in India in the lowest price category rooms and restaurants. They contracted Delhi Belly numerous times. I ask why the didn't spend three times as much and stayed one month without all the health problems and squalor. I guess I just don't understand.

14th December 2018

His Dudeness
Ralf Kreuze

Air conditioning versus fan
Whether I go for air conditioning depends on various variables. Sometimes a fan is actually nicer, plus it keeps mosquito's away, but at other times it is extremely pleasant to return to a nice and cool room. The major drawback for me with air conditioning is that the temperature changes when going in and out of the room can cause a cold. Therefore it is not a must (unlike a fan, I would never forgo a fan), but I do appreciate it and I would say that I stay in air conditioned rooms about half the time.

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