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the final goodbye

Friday, March 19th, 2010

After a very on and off relationship with New Zealand over the past 4 years I will finally be breaking it off for a decent amount of time this year. I have been accepted to study towards my masters in International Relationships in Leiden, Holland. So this trip looks set to be an indefinite one as my course will finish mid 2011 and then I plan to stay around to work, well maybe, I haven’t been very good at the whole work thing in recent years so will see what happens.

So after a wee trip to Iran then another season with the tents I will be settling down (for a year at least) in the lovely land of the Dutch to study. Exciting…while I am not writing NZ off compleately I think its time to leave properly and do something slightly ‘advancing’.

I am trying hard to actually get rid of all my stuff or put it into storage for another time.

3 weeks to go till departure.

Lonely Planet

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

The nice people at LP now feature my blog alongside relevant destination info on their website.

Now isn’t that cool

I'm a featured blogger on Lonely Planet

Iran planning

Friday, February 26th, 2010
After tackling Russia in 2008, I don't think any country could match the bureaucracy, inefficiency and non-tourist friendly levels the post communist country did. Therefore planning for Iran turns out to be not all that difficult. The key for me ... [Continue reading this entry]

the 2010 plan

Sunday, February 21st, 2010
A new year, a new life plan Back in Christchurch for the summer. Albeit a terrible summer, still today it is nice and on the nice days I wonder why I would want to live anywhere else. However time to move ... [Continue reading this entry]

trip expenses

Sunday, May 24th, 2009
I finally filled out my expense spreadsheet. I kept a pretty good record of what I was spending while away. It's not totally exact but a general idea of where my money went over the 5 and half months. It ... [Continue reading this entry]

my progress

Thursday, March 19th, 2009
visited 50 states (22.2%) Create your own visited map of The World I guess one of my long time goals would be to get to most parts of the world, the obvious gaps are Africa, and North ... [Continue reading this entry]

the next plan

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
As I externally process everything it feels good to write stuff down, even if no one reads it...anyway my next phase in the journey is kicking off soon. I have been back home for about 3 months where I have ... [Continue reading this entry]

trip video’s

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
I have started uploading the video's that Rdoc made on our Trans-Sib leg of the leg. They are uploaded in the appropriate posts and they're also in the category Videos 2008 at the bottom of the list on the right. ... [Continue reading this entry]

famous on the internet

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
While googling myself the other day (come on who doesn't?) I found an article about me! A nice wee (if not a bit incorrect, Christchurch a sprawling metropolis of 4 million- obviously the writed doesn't know much about NZ!) sum ... [Continue reading this entry]