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Looking back at 2009 - Japan, Madrid, Galway and Rome

Monday, 15 March 2010 13:33 Colin

I've been pondering my next trip this morning and it got me thinking about 2009 and how it was easily my most travelled year to date.

It started off with heading back from Australia via the States and fitting in a little road trip down Route 101 from Whistler to San

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Hangovers in Bangkok, it really isn't the weather for it...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:09 Colin Gray

Day 15 - Round the World 2008

All in all, not a whole lot to say about this morning... Apart from the fact that 32 degree temperatures do not go well with headaches, or the feeling that your stomach contents are really not very happy about being contents any longer.

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Delhi to Agra - Dodging the Touts at the Taj Mahal

Friday, 25 September 2009 13:51 Colin Gray

Day 2

So, 2nd day in India and we were up at 6.45am to be in time for our 7.30am car. Obviously this wasn't taking into account the legendary organisational skills of the Hotel Ajanta though and it turned out that noone in the building knew anything about our booking and, oh, surprise of all surprises, the guy I talked to wasn't anywhere to be seen. This is where my suspicions proved founded and useful though as I'd insisted on a detailed receipt the day

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Does an octopus have balls? Dining in Osaka, Japan

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:37 Colin Gray

I've just landed in Japan but the travelling isn't over yet - we've got 3 hours in Osaka before the night bus leaves for Izumo, the final destination. For the next couple of days at least... I'm currently 24 hours awake barring about 2 hours of airplane sleep - roughly equivalent to 20 minutes of any normal kip - so the eyes are looking

Last Updated on Tuesday, 16 March 2010 11:38 Read more...
 

Kathmandu, Nepal - "Tower, this is Maverick. Requesting Everest Fly-By"

Friday, 25 September 2009 13:57 Colin Gray

Day 5 - 2008 RTW Trip

The Everest mountain flight was something Cat and I had talked about way before actually arriving in Nepal. Cat really wanted to see Everest somehow and, to be fair, I thought it would be pretty cool too. I was hoping we could manage to see it from the ground though, thinking a plane would be cheating slightly, and naively thought that, being the highest mountain in the world after all, that this wouldn't be so difficult. That's discounting the

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