Hi Everyone,
Just a quick update on my wee trip to Singapore; very clean and no litter - as per what everyone says.
Took a nice trip to the famous Raffles hotel and had a rather expensive Singapore Sling - rather bizzarely they serve you monkey nuts for free and the bar is probably the messiest place [...]
Hanoi is the capital and also the largest city in northern Vietnam with 7 million people. Ruthlessly crowded with motorbikes, people and goods-for-sale along the tiny winding roads, my first impression was that this city was completely nuts. Coming from the jungles and mountains, I felt overwhelmed at first by the [...]
“I went running yesterday, by the Indian river. It was beautiful.. the sun reflected off the ripples of water that expanded on forever. There are 50,000 varieties of palm trees, i think, and they all line the riverbank. I ran until I couldn’t think about anything anymore… concentrated on pacing myself, on getting rid of [...]
We arrived in Isla after 4 days of major wind changes: experiencing everything from no wind to too much wind. We were ready to celebrate and wanted to go and EAT. However, we knew that our favourite place to eat, Rene y Rennee, would be closed on Sunday. However, we had a [...]
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The other night, Tomas and I stopped at a chipper just off our street on the way home from the city centre. It was a Tuesday, approximately 8:30pm. Tomas was drunkety drunk drunk, having been drinking whiskey all day at the launch of the Belfast Film Festival. He and his friends have entered a film; [...]
We drove nearly 500 kilometres today from the town of Red Lake in Ontario to the bustling metropolis of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada.
Okay so the title sounds a little dramatic, it wasn’t like we stumbled on a black bear along a trail or anything, but we did see one which was casually plodding through the long green grass on the side of the road near Red Lake.
After an intense month of working on our 37′ Irwin Sailing Sloop, December 30, 2008 was departure day. I know. I know. The next day was New Years evening. However, the wather was perfect for a 4 day crossing to Mexico, we had: crew, food, water and diesel, so we were OFF!! [...]
The cold eclipse of my sour mood quickly passed as I strolled the wet streets of Medellin. The city is large and sprawling, prone towards light midday showers and brick architecture, which creeps up vegetated mountainsides in beautiful, chaotic avenues. It resembles Portland, Oregon in the building style, the weather, the surrounding terrain, [...]