We left Kuala Lumpur in the middle of the afternoon on Dec 12th, then arrived at London Stansted airport around 10:30pm GMT. It seemed maybe a hundred other travellers had the same intention as us to spend the night at the airport, and a lot of floor space was used up by people who’d brought … More Christmas Vacation 2009-10, part 1 – Geneva and Manchester
If you checked out my previous post, you’ll have noticed I went to Vietnam this past weekend for my birthday. However, the Cu Chi Tunnel experience was only an hour out of one day, and I have much more to share about the time I spent there. We arrived at our hotel in Saigon around … More A Weekend in Vietnam
I never learned about the Vietnam war in school. I decided I wanted to travel to Vietnam this past weekend, for my birthday, because I tried out a couple of Vietnamese restaurants while living in Malaysia and decided I loved their food. I also saw an example of their national dress here, and thought it … More The Cu Chi Tunnel Experience in Vietnam
This past weekend saw the end of Ramadan on the Islamic calendar, and thus Monday and Tuesday were public holidays here in Malaysia. This gave Jeremy a couple days off from work, so we decided to venture into a neighbouring state, Negeri Sembilan. We didn’t have a specific plan or destination, though we knew there … More Venturing into Negeri Sembilan for Hari Raya
Saturday 25th April 2009 Anzac Day today! I didn’t hear a noise when Kaye left, but I still woke up far too early for my liking because Doyle wanted some snuggle sleeping time and I couldn’t get back to sleep. At least I had enough time to pack up everything and finish off a heap … More Diary of Melbourne, 2009 part 3 (Apr 25-30)
Monday 20th April 2009 Jeremy woke up at 4am to get to the airport on time to fly back up to Sydney, leaving behind his mum, Doyle and me. We got up more around 8am, and headed out sometime around 9:30am to catch the free city circle tram most of the way around the city, … More Diary of Melbourne, 2009 part 2 (Apr 20-24)
In two days, I am off to embark on a return to the Melbourne Comedy Festival for the first time since 2002, which was my then third visit to the festival, all in consecutive years. Now I’m trying to recapture some of my interests from my youth, partially in the hopes of re-finding myself. I … More Prelude to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, 2009
I’ve either arrived or left from all of IAD (Washington Dulles), DCA (Ronald Reagan) and BWI (Baltimore-Washington International) now so I think I’d be a reasonable judge to suggest which airports to use if you do want to go there. Personally, whilst IAD is probably the biggest and most used of the three, it’s also … More Airports surrounding Washington, DC
