Four days in Sydney and I only slowly start to settle in. I found it so far much harder here than in Asia. I did not feel jetlag in Bangkok or a culture shock but surprisingly I feel it now. The flight to Sydney was much more unsettled and disrupted by tourbolence than the flight to Bangkok. Especially while flying over the Uluru (Ayers Rock) area the plane was shaking constantly for a few hours. My guess is that the Aboriginal ghosts did not like us being there...

Only a few hours left in Bangkok and with Jonathan gone it's time to look back. Just when I am leaving I found the perfect spot to chill out. The park is not like Hampstead Heath, Hyde Park or Central Park but a great little green spot in the midst of the noise of Bangkok. The park has a little pond in the middle and lots of recreational outlets from Basketball and Tennis courts to a handful of outdoor gyms. I have heard they have them in Australia too so might...

While in Thailand I rode an elephant and stroke a tiger as mentioned before. Before people now start shouting complaint and disgust about how evil all this is for the animals, then take a deep breath and first of all think about what we do to our animals and what we eat every day in the West before judging others. Moreover it is one thing to read or see a documentary about it and to actually go and see it for yourself. I believe you can only ever really judg...

Thailand - it's been only a few days, yet I have seen a lot and much more to think about. We arrived at Krabi airport early afternoon on Saturday. The airport there is very small and serves almost entirely the tourist crowds of the area. The first interesting this to see was our bus to Ao Nang and Krabi. The area around the driver was used for storing luggage as the bus did not have luggage storage space underneath. Interesting way of doing this. The annoyin...

I did a little count out of curiosity - I am going to cover at least 18,798 miles around the world, which is only about 5,000 miles short of the length of the equator. I am sure that with a trip to New Zealand and around I can make up for that. And all that I do in 141 days. I guess it's not quite like "Around the world in 80 days" but I would say it's close enough. At this point I should apologies to the environment for leaving so many footprints o...