Here, have an orchid:


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Lucky I'm not Jedi then, ain't it?

The good news is that I now have Indian and Burmese visas in my grubby little paws passport. YEY.

I mean, look at this place!


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I'm plotting a trip - aren't I always? - and I think this one might actually happen. Man, I've not been somewhere crazy where no-one speaks English for faaar too long.


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- Patagonia
- Antarctica
- Darling River Run
- Iran
- Central Asia
- Kamchatka
- Bali to East Timor
- Ethiopia and Somaliland
- Tibet and Mongolia
- China
- Indochina
- Afghanistan, Wakhan Corridor
- something in the Sahara - Chad or Niger or south Algeria

To obtain a year-long working holiday visa for Australia, I needed to be out of Aus itself. The application and the decision process is not a long one, but due to my recent international exploits, I wasn't sure what they would need to check up on, medically or otherwise. So, a month was decided as a safe window. Australia is rather a long way from ( Read more... )

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Heading to the Rio Sambadrome in 15 mins. There are millions of people all flowing down the streets towards the runway and if I don't lose one of my 20 new possums in the chaos, I'll eat my bright purple wig. But...

CARNIVAL BABY. Biggest party on Earth. Awwwwww yeah!

* heads up: the content of some comments will definitely put you off your dinner!

A snake and some palm grubs (amusingly, called suri locally, which just makes me think of the Cruise spawn) and then a cute puppy.

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Michelle! The expression on this guys face cracks me up.


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Drive from the UK to Cote D'Ivoire/Ivory Coast, perhaps hitchhike back. I've got a contact who works for an NGO there and she needs a van that can carry her ex-child-soldier kids. It's only 9000km one way.


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