Footprints of a Backpacker

Here it is. The final update from our travels which is rather overdue, I admit, but since we’ve been home I have been using my time effectively: to sulk.

The last update took us up until we arrived in Chiang Mai. The coffee shop owner of the little place next door to our hostel was incredibly [...]

Koh Samui

The hotel we had booked into on Koh Samui was called the Tropical Garden Lounge. It was made up of 35 little bungalows with en-suites, AC, cable TV a fridge and 24 hour access to the pool. All for 6 pounds a night. The pool had a sunken which sold 99baht cocktails for most [...]

Here we go again, a long overdue update of what we’re up to for those of you at home. Not overdue in time, it’s only been about 10 days, but in the sheer amount of things we’ve managed to do in this time!
(By the way, this keyboard is crap so the spelling mistakes aren’t my [...]

Malaysia Update

Our last night in Singapore was spent at the night safari. An entire zoo experience open to visitors at night so that you get to see the animals in more natural envrionment. We went with a bunch of people from our hostel including a guy named Simon we’d gotten friendly with. It was loads [...]

Kuta

Our first stop as we flew into Bali was Kuta. The little we knew about Bali before we went there essentially said, “don’t go to Kuta”. But, as our flight got in late and it’s the closest place to the airport we figured a couple of nights couldn’t hurt. Kuta is to Aussies as Ibiza [...]

This is impressive, it’s been less than a week since my last update but so much has happened it seems best to fill you all in now while I still remember it! We left Jed and Deb’s house (very sadly) last week and started on our four day bus tour up the coast to Monkey [...]

So, here I am again trying to condense all of our adventures into a couple of pages. Not an easy task. But I’ll do my best. It’s been just over three weeks since I wrote the last update, but so much has happened it feels like several months. So here goes.

Last time I left you [...]

The second installment of the tales of our trip is long overdue, and I now find myself without my Dad’s handy dandy little netbook to write my update at a leisurely pace. So, I will do my best to fill you in on most things which happened in New Zealand, but there is just so [...]

Long Overdue Travel Update

Ok, so I’m very aware we’ve been more than a little slack in sending out an email with what we’ve been up to. But we actually have been so non-stop busy that this is just about the first chance we’ve had.
So, trying to fit a month’s worth of activity into one message [...]