City City Bang Bang June 10th 2017 It definitely wasn't the first time and I'm sure it won't be the last but I get the feeling that what I had just done is something that just can't keep happening for much longer. It's just always the way though; the biggest night of partying almost always occurs the night before a travel day with a ridiculously early start. My dorm mates and I were still enjoying a drunken swim in the resort pool ... read more
Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more
Hi,
Most of you will have been directed here by me - if so, thanks for coming. If not, thanks for coming anyway.
I am Derek - a Kiwi who in June 2007, set off on a 4 1/2 month sortie around Europe via the USA, and set up this blog so that friends, family and randoms could keep track of where I had been to, and of the shenanigans I inevitably got up to.
The trip inspired me to keep travelling and directly following it, I spent the next seven years living in London, which was a fantastic base from which to continue my travels and thus the travelling continued unaba... full info