OK, so I know that I should probably be taking the opportunity in Egypt to immerse myself in amazing temples and tombs but too be honest, it gets a bit much, especially when you are in 40 degrees and fighting off touts and stupid tour groups in giant buses with no regard for any local customs […]

After meeting Brian on the Felucca, me, Hugh and Brian formed a little team for the following week. Hugh, the english gap year student, extremely polite and frequently uses words such as “wonderful” and “delightful” (I know you are probably reading this Hugh), travelling in Egypt for 6 weeks and still manages to remain mostly calm […]

To go from Aswan up to Luxor you can drive, train or go up the Nile, depending on your budget this means a big fancy cruise ship, or a very basic felucca- nothing much in between. But to be honest, I would rather a felucca any way as it seems more romantic and authentic, plus it […]

Some people seem to deal with heat OK, despite being 45 degrees they look fine, make-up and hair still in place and charging around the streets without seeming to notice the crazy heat. I am not one of those people. I spend my days in Egypt with my hair plastered to my face, I am constantly wet […]

Don’t stop and talk to anyone Just cross the road, even if there are 100 cars coming towards you Ignore every second guy saying “hello lovely” to you Find a good felafel shop Cairo is a pretty intense city, when flying in, our plane flew over the Saudi peninsula, never ending sand and dirt, then Cairo […]

It feels easy to slip back into the tourist thing, spending days looking at things and eating lots. My first full day in Singapore I went for a walk around the little India district with Rula and Hannah, we stumbled across a Hindu temple which was pretty amazing, full of people and priests (?) praying and […]

The Singapore Sling is the famous cocktail of Singapore, so what better way to kick off the trip than with a Singapore Sling on board the plane at 11am, as I wouldn’t be able to afford one in Singapore. Singapore Airlines has to be the best airline in the world (actually, officially, I think it is […]

Hurray, I have my passport back! Complete with a big Russian Visa sticker. Its scary not having your passport, its like my key to freedom and without it I am useless…so its nice to back safely in my hands rather than the dodgy Russian embassy. Other than finalizing my visa I am in the process of […]

So we arrived back in Vientiane with no money, since the only ATM in the country was here we were planning to head straight there. We just had enough money to get a tuk-tuk to a cheap nasty hotel. We dumped our bags and were about to go get some money when I suddenly realized I […]

Luang Prabang would have to be one of my favourite spots in Asia, its beautiful and clean, streets are actually paved, its Laos so everyone is friendly. Unfortunately its everyone elses favourite place and we had a tough time finding a room under $15. Normally we don’t pay more than $6 so we weren’t too happy […]

After lugging our bags around the small town we settled in at a nice guest house over looking the river. Had a very long lunch break in the sun and walked down to check out some of the caves Van Vieng is famous for…they were closed. So we just mucked around until dinner time. After dark […]

Halong Bay is this incredibly beautiful and massive bay east of Hanoi. Filled with rocky hills, caves and national parks as well as floating fishing villages and lots of tourists. We were on an overnight tour so after a 3 hour drive ended up on a pretty cool old school wooden boat with about 20 others. […]

You know how on planes everyone rushes to get off really quickly? Well in our overtired-everything-is-funny state we waited until people had gotten off….so talking and laughing away we suddenly realized that EVERYONE was off the plane and only the air-hostesses were left giving us funny looks. So we quickly grabbed our stuff and ran out […]

Only 3 weeks until home time! Can’t believe the year is almost finished, but not quite yet still more countries to visit, things to see and lots more to buy. And Vietnam is a good place to go shopping! We arrived in Ho Chi Min, formally known as Saigon, in the evening and tried about 10 […]

Getting to Kolkata turned out to be not so bad, meet a cool Canadian guy who was in the bunk above me so we had a good night chatting away to all the other passengers and sharing food. Ended up arriving 3 hours late around 10am then it was off to find the Spreydon team. There’s […]

I was off to Varanasi that night but couldn’t get a direct train so first had to get about 3/4 of the way to Allahbad. A long night despite having a sleeper as most people around me weren’t too interesting in sleeping much. Arrived around 6am and begun a long search trying to get a train […]

Thanks to the train system giving me a whole 3 minutes to switch trains and the first train being 30 mins late I was forced to spend a few hours in a strange little town called Cesky Buda…..something. Thinking I could have stumbled upon an undiscovered town I went for a bit of a walk….I […]

I think 4 days was probably enough as I didn’t end up sleeping hardly at all for the whole time in Munich and now am sick and exhausted! but it was fun, did walk a little bit around Munich one day and it is a beautiful city, some really amazing churches and things. The last […]

This is only our 5th day here in Morocoo but we’ve already done so much! Our first day in Casablanca we had cous cous for lunch with all the family, in a big shared plate, really good. Apparently that’s what you do on Fridays, eat cous cous… Had a walk around the 3rd biggest mosque in […]

Tomorrow I fly out of South America, which is sad but also exciting as I’m off to Europe! and seeing mum and my sister Sarita. Since leaving San Pedro I had a fantastic few days in Iquique, which is right next to the beach. Had great weather and stayed in a very cool hostel which was […]