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Thai boxing ten year olds in Kho Phi Phi, Thailand

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:30 Colin Gray

Day 25-26 - Round the World 2008

The next couple of days on Phi Phi were a pretty lazy affair, highlights being swimming around the cool little bays, eating far more food than any human needs to survive, drinking enough alchoholic liquid to threaten aforementioned survival and scoffing a few more clandestine pancakes.

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Jiminy Cricket the soprano and a semi: Shrines and bugs in Izumo, Japan

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:37 Colin Gray

Cycling around Izumo on a pair of borrowed bikes (one classic granny bike, big cow-horn handlebars'n all - one totally broken mountain bike, wheels threatening to detach from the frame at any second) I noticed how great an idea it is to get yourself on two wheels in Japan. Bikers and walkers share the pavements, so there's no traffic stresses at all, and the place is pretty flat so you h

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Experiencing the saddle of rock in Pokhara, Nepal.

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 13:46 Colin Gray

Day 10 - Nepal 2008

We planned our second day in Pokhara to be a bit more active than the first and after another huge breakfast (loving these cooked brekkies for 80p every day!) we sought out a bike hire shop to get ourselves kitted out on two wheels. I was looking forward to this, having not been on a bike in weeks, but my hopes were dashed when

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Next stop - The Land Down Under - Australia Bound

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:32 Colin Gray

Day 1 - Australia 2009

Alrighty, so that's the asia leg over with (See Round the World 2008). Enough of death-defying transport, bowel-clenching cuisine and anti-hygiene accommodation. Well, actually, not enough, because it was all pretty awesome, but we gotta go anyway...

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Agra to Delhi - A lesson in how not to run a road system

Friday, 25 September 2009 13:52 Colin Gray

Day 3

In the morning our only thought was to escape this tout-ridden, tourist-trap of a place and head back from Agra to Delhi in preparation for making like a shepherd and getting the flock out of India. Our driver had other ideas though and it became obvious that even private cars aren't immune to the 'slight detour my friend, I know a very good shop with cheap, cheap prices!' To be fair to the guy though, he'd been really good up till then, and even now

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