another flight - another body search! this is the 3rd time i have been fully search at the airport - i am not bothered about it - its just funny! i must be looking suspicious...i am now in Incheon - 70 miles from Seoul. I found myself a nice hotel in a strange area (please check the photos) - the whole centre of town is 3 blocks by 3! and it s just so different than what i was expecting. i even took pictures of the hotel room... sleepers at the entrance / open sh...

Japan - after a 12 hour flight, i finally landed at Narita International Airport for a one day stopover in Japan.After a long debate, i decided to change my itinerary from a 2 weeks stay in Japan to a 1 day so i could increase my stay in the Philippines to 3 weeks! Close familly will surely know why... LOL... Japan will be back on my travel in November... such a good thing to have flexibility in my travel ticket!as i was only in the area for a day and half, i dec...

well - its been 10 days since my last postcard! cant believe time is going so fast already! arrived in San Francisco on Monday 28th August for 8 days - and i can say that i had a great time just focusing on things i wanted to do - and guess what - i only did one bar during that whole week - and i stayed only 30 minutes! after checking into The Cartwright Hotel which couldnt have been more central (near Union Square), I started walking up and down the street, visi...

After 3 days in Chicago, where i spent most of the time relaxing / walking around and doing sight seeing, i met with my friend Rich for lunch on Navy Pier before heading to St Joseph in Michigan. Small town of 8700 people, it felt so peaceful and everything seems to go at a slower pace - true that the humid 80F temperature didnt help! we walked by seafront where the beach is so nice... just felt weired that Lake Michigan is fresh water - people fish trout and sal...

good day to everyone! like i said in london to myself as i was boarding the plane: "oh f*** - here we go!!!!" - this is the start of my year travelling! at last some of you would say - as I have been talking about this for so long! but finally it has happened. Like you can imagine the Check-in at Heathrow was a nightmare - I had to queue for 1.30 hours just to go through security! (btw, thank you Harry for the drive to the airport - that was much a...