Archives For March, 2007

Just over one and a half months until I start on my big trip and it seems quite a short time now. Not like a week ago. Still have so many things left to do, mainly selling loads of my stuff at fleamarkets and working on a few internet projects with my brother. Time should pass quite quickly now.

Finally managed to get my bro to scan some photos from earlier trips. Cheers, mate. This is one of the beautiful stone faces from around Angkor Wat. It’s a mythical place with a fascinating aura and this photo captures that atmosphere quite well, I think.

Just passed the 8 week mark. My feet are getting itchier by the minute and I’ll probably have to work right up to the day I fly out. I set myself an amount I would like to take with me to oz and it’s starting to look like it’s gonna be close. I’ve kind of not been going to my second job as much as I should have, but I just can’t be bothered right now. It’s snowing here at the moment and it’s pulling me down a bit. I’ll have to make up for it next month, I guess…

This was my trusted bike on Trawangan. It wouldn’t drive straight, but, probably because of that, it always brought me home safely after a hard party night…

I love to watch people. I do it at home, sitting in a cafe for example, and I do it while travelling. I found Khao San Road in Bangkok, Thailand, to be one of the best places to indulge in my hobby. You just sit down in a restaurant with a chilled beer and watch the world pass by. There’s Israelis with dreadlocks and wearing bandanas, English burnt by too much time in the sun and too little sunscreen, Swedes, tanned a dark brown in their boardshorts and cultivating that surfers look, German tourists trying to blend in to the whole traveller scene and in between them all left over hippies on a short visit from the last full moon party in Goa. Nowadays, you can actually interchange all those nationalities. The country-clichés are slowly disolving I think, but there are still different types of travellers:

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Timen over at in my All Stars has proposed the idea of a Trusted Travel Blogs Network, where only quality and honest travel blogs will be listed. I am finding this quite exciting and a great idea with a lot of potential. If it takes off, then hopefully Travel-Junkie.com will be a part of it…

DAN is a non profit organisation, that operates a 24h network of alarm centers, provides you with diving medical advice and excellent diving insurance and does a lot of research into dive safety. Highly recommended for any diver and anyone wanting to become one.
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A few days ago I met an old aquaintance of mine. We hadn’t seen each other in years, so naturally we chatted about what happened to us during those years. Eventually we got to me teaching diving in Southeast Asia. This always seems to fascinate people and one of the first questions is usually if I’ve seen any sharks. After more than a thousand dives the answer is obviously a yes, with a huge grin on my face. I love sharks, I think they are great animals and it shows. My old friend didn’t understand me. After all, sharks don’t have the cuddly appearance of dolphins and judging from their reputation with the public, they are more like the mass murderers of the ocean.

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Just found this photo somewhere in the depths on my laptop. And I just had to laugh out loud. I think it’s great, especially the ‘good luck’-part…

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