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VIDEO BLOG: Easy Riding with Bo in Vietnam (beware: geckos were harmed in the making of this blog)
“If you go to Vietnam, make sure you go off with the Easy Riders,” said… absolutely everyone. So when we got to the coastal city of Nha Trang we walked around and talked to everyone claiming to work for Easy Riders (there were many), until we met someone who doesn’t… but who seemed like a lot of fun anyway. A video speaks a thousand photos, so here’s the video: Heading off on a motorbike and scooter to Dalat and back …
Posted in Random Ramblings, Southeast Asia, Travelling, Vietnam
Tagged Dalat, Easy Rider, Nha Trang, True Friends
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Musings on the earth…
Sometimes I think, in places like this, where the ocean meets the sky in a thousand shades of blue, that each force competes with the other. The ocean says to the sky, I can travel faster, sparkle without stars, sweep people up in a majestic underworld otherwise unseen and make them breathe in bubbles. And the sky says, well, that’s all very impressive. I only sparkle by night, my treasures are infinite but undiscovered and when I move, I myself …
My Son, an eskimo and a rabid monkey in Vietnam… (day tripping from Hoi An)
“Remember this is Yellow. Bus. Number. 9″ bellowed Dung from the front of the stuffy bouncing vehicle as we trundled, honked and swerved our way down the road from Hoi An to My Son. Dung (pronounced Yung) has been a guide for two years and is pretty much the most enthusiastic human I’ve ever encountered. He probably speaks the best English I’ve heard anyone speak here in Vietnam too, although I got the distinct feeling he learnt it by watching …
Posted in Random Ramblings, Southeast Asia, Travelling, Uncategorized, Vietnam
Tagged Hoi An, My Son, tour, Vietnam
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Tangled up in Vietnam: why Hoi An is like a Disney movie…
All around me, women of different ages and different generations are wedging candles into piles of white sand inside tiny cardboard rafts. The sun is setting in old Hoi An, Vietnam and slowly, as the silver linings of every cloud are highlighted for all to see in a blaze of indigo, pink and amber, the candles flicker their way along the water, bought for a dollar apiece and set free by the hands of young lovers making wishes on the …
Posted in Random Ramblings, Southeast Asia, Travelling, Vietnam
Tagged Disney, Hoi An, Tangled
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Last night I slept on some fleas…
Last night I slept on some fleas on a sofa in a hostel lounge room, but you know what? That’s OK. Honestly, that is fine by me because soon as I walked into the dorm room and heard the industrial vacuum-esque soliloquy of a snoring man who, had he been sleeping outside on the lawn could have sucked a passing plane from the sky and brought it to land on his face I thought no… No way. No fucking WAY …
12 hours in Iquique, Chile (and some sea lions)…
Technically, we should be on a bus right now, heading down to San Pedro de Atacama – the gateway to the driest desert on earth. There are parts of northern Chile that have never seen rain, ever. It’s basically uninhabitable. I’ve never been, but I’m imagining it looks a bit like this: It rained on our parade today though. Having reached the bus terminal with a plan, it emerged that there were no buses heading south till 11.30pm. We found …
Posted in Latinalicious - The South America Diaries, Random Ramblings, South America, Uncategorized
Tagged Chile, Iquique
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An ode to Crepes & Waffles…
Oh Crepes & Waffles! I will miss you so. You’ve been a staple in my Colombian adventures but alas, alack, today I must fly to Brazil and leave you behind. So I’ve written this small poem to say thank you for your yumminess, because I will never forget you. And neither will my thighs. It’s a bit of a shit poem… yes. But I like to think it’s the thought that counts. You’re sticky and sweet You’re a great place …
A Bogota Bonadonnathon: remembering a legend…
Yes, that’s a real llama. Well, not the one I’m sitting on. Today was pretty full of moments like this. My friend Zac here lost a friend of his in 2011, called Angelo Bonadonna, when they were both living and working in Thailand. Having heard all about him and watched a video made by his friends in his memory I feel a bit like I might have known Angelo – he was one of those guys who lights up a …
Posted in Latinalicious, Latinalicious - The South America Diaries, Random Ramblings
Tagged Bogota, Bonadonnathon, Colombia
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How NOT to spend a day in Bogota…
I just saw an old man walking with a limp outside the hostel and the sight of him made me cry. I get emotional when I’m tired, but when he saw me I just felt like a tool. I am just WAY too tired to be awake… but my problem is I can’t seem to sleep. Instead I shall ramble to you, blog… I’ve just had the most ridiculous few hours of my life. I had every intention of going …
A poem for the end of the world…
As I lay me down to sleep I pray the lord this world to keep From blowing up in bursts of flames And ending like The Hunger Games, From zombies roaming streets for blood And fires and ice and wind and flood Please, prove those Mayans all were wrong When tomorrow we wake and life goes on I’m not quite ready for the calendar’s end But I’ll say goodnight now, to my bloggy-wog friends BE SAFE and wear your hardhats …
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