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last night i couldnt sleepand i miss my clean white linen 21 noviembre ManchesterI've found a happy home in manchester. It's terribly cold and sometimes wet but other than that i must say this city is fantastic. Theres plenty to do and see. 06 junio brrri'm in england now, its all so exciting. I've used the wealth of knowledge gained from travelling solo 15 months and landed myself a temporary position working for the harrogate borough council. I excell in filing, printing, and clicking around on an empty screen most of the working day, accompanied by a one-hour lunch break. It's a satisfying and mentally challenging role, one that i am proud of and look forward to each morning. 24 marzo ReptilesRich woke me up the other night, he said there was a giant lizard on the airconditioner and he needed to turn the light on to check. There wasn't a lizard there. 14 marzo no snacksIt's funny, I almost forgot the routine you have to follow after purchasing a bus ticket. You WOULD think, by buying a ticket from point A to point B, that by simply showing up at point A with your belongings and ticket the only real effort one would have to exert would be to sit for blank number of hours on said vehicle until reaching point B and de-boarding said vehicle. We arrived at stated bus departure point, Kao San Road- obviously nowhere for a bus to pull into and load with 80 passengers- at bus departure time, 7pm. We left Bangkok at 9, from some restaurant on some road after being lead, pied-piper style around the city picking up all the various passengers from all their various 'departure points.' This style of ticketing is also common in Laos, even more so with the time of the actual departure. They seem to have some sort of national time difference- I think it's about 2 hours. If you don't understand, an example would be this: a ticket for a bus leaving at 1:30 pm from your very own guesthouse (sounds ideal) means the bus leaves at 3:30 pm from another place. I'm not sure why they don't change the ads for the buses to compensate for this time difference, i'm sure it would make things a lot easier and provide everyone with an extra 2 hours of living on days when buses are involved....The language of the ads is also a little backwards and takes some experience to be able to decipher. "Air Conditioning" means "NO AIRCONDITIONING" and "Movies shown and complimentary snacks provided" Means "NO MOVIES NO TV NO SNACKS............but hey....its all part of the bloody fun of it
Laos is lovely, despite the efforts of getting here. We are in Van Vieng. Did the tubing thing, paid 3bucks to hire a tube and be tuk-tuk'd up the river 30mins. Spent 4hours cruising down the river, stopping at a few bars along the way. Bought a BeerLaos off a boy aged about 8 who offered me a joint and a shot of his personal bottle of vodka. At one place i got brave and climbed a 25ft platform to grab hold of a rope swing, knees shaking, with an audience of Laos people that had obviously grown up on the banks of the river doing rope swings since age 2. I proceeded to face-dive very elegantly into the water when my hands slipped off the handle. Dont know what hurt more: my face or my pride.
Every restaurant and guesthouse one the one strip of dirt road that is Van Vieng plays Friends. Dont know who or what started this trend.
The food here is Shite. Absolute Shite. I'm not even kidding.
Going back to Vientienne the day after tomorrow. As for today maybe theres a rerun of the one where phoebe changes her name to princess bananahammock. 07 marzo Ham flakesI typed a whole entry yesterday whilst sitting in one of those computer geekazoid clubs where the nerds of the world sit all day playing warcraft and munching on kfc.
 When i'd finished writing it my allocated time ran out and the minute i left my seat to renew it my machine was promptly taken over by nerd boy and i was too afraid to interrupt his already immersed state of complete warcraftness to ask him for my comp back. So will try to remember what i wrote...it was in fact a complete masterpiece and this entry will never live up to yesterday's golden wonder but i will try.We are in Bangkok. Spent 2 ultimately strenuous weeks on the islands of phi phi and lanta straining our backs and legs to get full suntan converage.
 Ate some marvelous food whilst laying as low as possible in the ways of the islands. Met up with Bob and Glenys on Phi Phi and saw lace again in Lanta. Went to watch some Muay Thai boxing and walked in on the Dirty Sanchez boys attempting to kick each others faces in in the ring. Went on some amazing long tail boat rides round phi phi and hung out with the murd fam. Trying to sort out our next step now, are we up for the ultimate Laos or have we become lame excuses for backpackers-- after 15 months travelling are we too tired for the 24 hour stint of boats, buses, tuktuks and the schedule-less travel that is Laos? The temptation of going back to an island and laying extremely low in between practicing a little firestick and reading a few books may be too much........ |
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