So in a few short weeks, I’ll be slinging my backpack on my back (after I give it a bit of a dust-off – the last time I used it was a year ago! Oh the shame!) and boarding a Thai Airways flight to Bangkok. It will be the first time I’ve flown with Thai, [...]
It was with much consternation that I came to discover at the end of last month, some issues with the Cambodia eVisa system. Up until that point, I hadn’t been anxious about visas at all. Then, just when I was ready to apply for a visa, the site went down, and a Google search turned [...]
I always feel like a bit of a cheat when I go on tours. I’ve done quite a few - day tours in various places in Australia, a Macbackpackers tour of Scotland, and an Intrepid trip in Vietnam. But I’ve also travelled independently. I backpacked around Europe without a guidebook (which I don’t neccessarily reccommend [...]
During the three years I spent studying for my undergraduate degree, I drove past Sydney airport on the way to uni almost every day. Driving past the turn-off to the carpark at the International terminal, I would invariably sigh longingly, and search the skies for any planes taking off or landing, jealously wondering who on [...]
We picked up Adam* in the seedy bar of a backpacker’s in Alice Springs. A curly-headed, doe-eyed, drawling Texan, he looked cute and lonely, and we were drinking.
My four friends and I giggled and dared each other to approach him, to invite him to sit with us. When he joined our table with his [...]
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