Visited café number nine this morning and lo and behold: decent coffee. Still a hipster shop falling for the 100% Arabica folly, plus I had to tell them not to water it down too much, but it was acceptable. Empanada lunch at an Argentinian place was enjoyable as well. What I really enjoyed was conversing […]
Moving Pictures: Chiang Mai
Not much going on at the moment. Here’s some impressions from the streets of Chiang Mai.
Departing Kathmandu
Kathmandu’s international airport has been described with many words. Efficiency, speed or cleanliness are never among them. My flight is scheduled for 7:40 and I wanted to be at the airport at least two hours prior to that. Asking at my guest house about transportation, the first guy told me the airport wouldn’t open before […]
Bumpy bumpy
On the road between Pathein and Yangon, about an hour or two to go. This pot-holed parody of a street connects the capital to a city with a population of 300,000, which gives a good idea of the country’s general transport infrastructure. 3G is fairly solid though.
More Farm Work
When I did some research on which farm to visit next I found out that the grape picking season is about to start around Adelaide. That brought up the question of whether I could make some money while accumulating the necessary farm work time for my second year visa. Regular fruit picking is still not […]
The Top 5 Regrets of The Dying
An interesting read I stumbled across in the Huffington Post (orginaly from this link). “A palliative nurse recorded the most common regrets of the dying […]” 1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. “This was the most common regret of all. […]