Today was a really, and I mean really, slow day at work. The students are all in exams so I quite literally had NOTHING to do all day. I graded papers but you can only do that for so many hours before you want to stab the pen into your eyeballs instead. Wound up heading Read More »
Well every summit has its descent and mine from glorious Mt. Phuket was treacherous! The Emperor and Retodd got in a taxi for there 30 minute ride to the airport. I boarded a crowded mini bus that was suppose to take me to a proper bus station. Nope, never happened, instead I switched mini buses Read More »
Today was a really, and I mean really, slow day at work. The students are all in exams so I quite literally had NOTHING to do all day. I graded papers but you can only do that for so many hours before you want to stab the pen into your eyeballs instead. Wound up heading Read More »
Well every summit has its descent and mine from glorious Mt. Phuket was treacherous! The Emperor and Retodd got in a taxi for there 30 minute ride to the airport. I boarded a crowded mini bus that was suppose to take me to a proper bus station. Nope, never happened, instead I switched mini buses Read More »
We have been to so many places over the last couple of days and I have not been writing up this blog or keeping very good notes, so I may get the order of places we visited wrong and I may also misname some of the photos, particularly the garden shots. Its confusing folks, we Read More »
After a good eight hour flight from Sydney we arrived in steamy Singapore! We landed about 10pm and it was a very humid 22c. We had booked into a hostel called Sleepy Sams in Kampong Glam, the muslim quarter. The hostel reception closes early so we were given the door pin code by Email and Read More »
Thanksgiving 2009 – Shanghai, China Last year, I triumphantly concocted a Thanksgiving meal on Thursday and it involved some odd substitutions. It was quite memorable, quite enjoyable, but it was not quite the same. This year, after much soul searching and much consternation over the budgetary implications, I decided that I just had to do Read More »
After the beuatiful underwater worlds of Ko Tao, I took a boat back to the mainland and a night train to Malaysia; a new country for me to visit! The border crossing went pretty smooth, and around 13h, I arrived in Butterworth, where I would take the ferry to Georgetown, Penang. Penang is an island Read More »
Weekend avec mes collegues fin Novembre… Apres une soiree dans la city de Beijing le jeudi soir / matin … … on s’est envole pour la province de Hunan et plus precisement la ville de Zhanggiajie… Ouaip! Pas facile a prononcer… Au programme rando dans les montagnes avec des paysages a couper le souffle… C Read More »
by Kerry So.. Cambodia was our last stop in mainland S.E. Asia. It seems like we’ve seen a lot and we have! Anyway, see our next blog for our general 6 month round up. Siem Reap & The Temples of Angkor After a 4 hour bus ride from Bangkok we walked into Cambodia from Thailand Read More »
