Goodbye Perth & The Night of Free TV

NIghttime in Perth... When we finally returned from Fremantle, it was high time for our daily pilgrimage to the local Woolworths to get some dinner – and, as it turned out, in the meantime Perth had really come alive with a food market taking centre stage, with various different offerings available and the street lit up beautifully. We wandered along through the street market for as long as we could – without making it too obvious, we hoped, that... Read More

Down Under to Perth.

Perth...while struggling to stay awake... Before returning back to Europe, it seemed only right to go and stretch our stay away just a little bit further and head down to Australia, not knowing when you’d get the chance again. Initially, our plans had called for basically the absolute cheapest flight we could possibly get to Australia and this, by the time we came to booking (by which stage all the prices had changed multiple times again), came... Read More

New Zealand…and I Thought Australia Was Cold…

New Zealand, as seen from the Overlander... Having had a pretty terrible time with the hostels in Australia and having to battle the relentless chill, it eventually came time to find myself sitting in a window seat looking out at scenery that wouldn’t have looked out of place in Wicklow – hilly, green and with roads seemingly winding their way around hills without ever actually going anywhere in particular. We descended further and further,... Read More

How I Nearly Never Left Melbourne Airport…

Australia - But good luck finding any barbecue's... After an enjoyable two nights in Kuala Lumpur, it was once again time to shuffle onwards – this time for Melbourne, Australia. The previous hostel I’d been staying was sort of more like some old woman’s house than an actual hostel so it was no surprise really that on the morning of my departure she was up and waiting to see us off, myself and another Irish guy bound for Borneo.... Read More

There’s No Shame in being a UFO Enthusiast…

**Many of you will be aware by now that I’ve actually had a major change of plans and am now in Frankfurt, Germany. I’ll write more about the atypical series of events that unfolded in the 48 hours or so I was in China by tomorrow but I thought in the meantime I’d post what I had already written and planned to post about my trip to Japan. It’s amazing in hindsight how you can fly for just 3 hours from Japan to another Asian... Read More