What have I been doing while taking so long to tell you my Irish story? Well, it hasn’t all been plain sailing, there have been many ups and downs along the way, but here is a little run down of some highlights of the last seven months. Alongside striving to improve the website you are …
It has been nearly two months since my last blog post, as I have failed to feel inspired to sit down and share how my time has passed. It is not that nothing noteworthy has happened, on the contrary, I have had both a wonderful weekend at a local national park on a yoga retreat …
In a new vow to make the most of our weekends, to find enjoyable ways both to stay in the city and opportunities for short escapes, Laura and I have made a running start over the past two weeks. The first weekend of April was an adventurous one. I borrowed a motorbike from a housemate …
Not long after my arrival in Hanoi , Vietnam was celebrating Tet holiday (Lunar New Year). Everything was closing and many people were leaving town for a week. This resulted in two mini adventures I had not expected. The first, was spending just under a week in Thailand on Koh Chang island. A blissful retreat, …
A couple of days after the peace of Taman Negara I was boarding a flight to Vietnam, returning to Hanoi, the starting destination for my travels three odd years ago. It was an odd sensation, feeling as though my journey had come full circle and, knowing the many changes that have occurred within during the …
Taman Negara (possibly the oldest jungle in the world) is beautiful, secluded, free from noise pollution, wonderfully green… I think I need not say I fell in love and became more smitten every day! Here I faced challenges I had never come across before, crossed mental barriers doing so and met some great people, backpackers …
Pulau Penang, an island in the north west of Malaysia is famous for its food and the wide range of attractions it offers to tourists. The most populated area, also the most touristic, is Georgetown, the city on the east of the island closest to the mainland. I arrived feeling optimistic about the experiences that …
My stay in Ipoh was short and sweet. A forty minute search after my initial arrival in town had me staying at a reasonably priced hostel with beds including towel racks, charging points, free cold drinking water and a rooftop terrace from where it was possible to view the city, surrounding hills and wonderful sunsets …
I arrived in Cameron Highlands just after lunch and at first, it’s fair to say I was a little disappointed. I’d created a picture in my mind similar to where I had just left in Australia and of course, this was not the same. Instead, the touristic town where I would be staying was a …
After another amazing month spent at Woodford Folk Festival, meeting old friends and new, experiencing a new area of set up as this time I worked on the street lighting crew, it was time to leave Australia once again and make my way back to Asia, the continent where my travels began three and a …
