January 22nd, 2010 by Boris Glumpler | Category: Articles
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I've sat outside an airport or a train or bus station more times than I care to remember, crying my eyes out or feeling generally just like crap, because a loved one or a friend has just left. Over time I've developed a few habits to deal with leaving or being left while travelling.
Never ever make any promises. I know you'd like to see your latest one-night-stand again after a good nights romp around the bedsheets (who wouldn't), but if you're not at all serious then a peck on the cheek...
December 31st, 2009 by Boris Glumpler | Category: Articles
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It's that time of the year again. One day left in this year, in this decade, in fact. I hope all of you have had a great year, seen some new things, met new people and simply had fun.
2009 has seen some of the best travelling I have done up till now. A year ago I was stuck in Kuala Lumpur, waiting for my Indian visa to be approved. I didn't have anything planned for the night, except watch the fireworks. In the end I met a couple really nice people and I ended up in the Reggae Bar and still...
December 16th, 2009 by Boris Glumpler | Category: Articles | Continent: Asia | Country: Afghanistan
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Why should we care about Afghanistan? It's a valid question. You probably haven't heard any good news from that place for a long time. It's been at war since 1979. That's as long as some of us have been alive. Maybe even longer.
I read a lot of stories from the golden age of travelling, when you could still get from London to Kathmandu on a red double-decker bus for a few quid. Ok, probably more than that, but you know what I'm trying to say. Not so long ago Afghanistan was a highlight on...
December 11th, 2009 by Boris Glumpler | Category: Articles
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The first time I went off to travel Southeast Asia people kept telling me that I'll become a travel-addict very soon. A lot of people use that analogy and there's quite a bit of truth in that statement. You can take it quite far actually!
The last 10 years of my life I have basically been a junkie. Isn't admitting the problem the first step or something? I was constantly on the lookout for my next fix, the next place to go to, the next country to explore.
Being away meant a constant high...
November 24th, 2009 by Boris Glumpler | Category: Interviews
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Welcome everyone to the first ever interview here on Travel-Junkie. A few days ago I published a book review of "Surviving Paradise" and now we've had the opportunity to ask Peter Rudiak-Gould, the author of said book, a few questions. If you haven't read the review yet, I suggest you head on over there first as it gives you a little bit of background information!
Mostly it was an obsession with faraway places that began in my teens, the same obsession that still makes me pinpoint remote islands...
November 15th, 2009 by Boris Glumpler | Category: Book Reviews | Country: Marshall Islands | City: Ujae
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A while back I was contacted by Peter Roudiak-Gould who wondered if I was willing to write a review of his first non-academic book, "Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island". He would have his publicist send over a complimentary copy. Naturally, I agreed. Apart from never refusing free stuff, I was also intruiged by what Peter told me about his book.
In 2003 Peter, just 21 years old, set out from Majuro, the Marshallese capital, to teach English on Ujae, an outer island of the...
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