And staying with my brother and really quite enjoying that, getting used to Vancouver and the fact that despite travelling most of the way around the World I have not, in fact, left Asia at all ( Read more... )

Im sick of travelling ( Read more... )

Well, I cant get the damn thing back. Luckily I found someone here to stay with for a few days through an international peace group that I am in. I had some spare american dollars, I would have had just enough to call my parents and stay one night in a hostel, but not enough to eat. So, there are good lessons to be learnt here ( Read more... )

Spent a few days in the countryside of Finland in forests that we Aussies can only really dream about.....thick with pine trees, moss two feet deep on the ground, small streams to hop over and deer trails all over the place ( Read more... )

The country where I quite like to be ( Read more... )

Feeling a bit better today. Hopefully back to seeing the sites tomorrow.

Damn I feel like utter crap. Walking to the end of the street took quite a bit of effort and I still have to make it back.

At least the hostel is a cheap place to spend all my time sleeping.

I just realised, getting in to St Petersburg where the ground is all wet from raining before I got here, that in the almost 2 months since I finished work and have been travelling around, it hasnt rained on me a single time.
Not once.

Amazingly good luck, surely to be broken by this email.

Time to write some seperate emails ( Read more... )

I wasnt there for that long and I didnt really do a lot of touristy things cause I was lucky enough to be able to stay with the brother of an internet friend in Beijing (thanks Martin!) and with a friend of the same friend down in Shenzhen (thanks Ami ( Read more... )