Adventure

This category relates to the big adventure which is me backpacking!

February 5, 2010

  • How To Be The Worlds Biggest Arsehole

    Once upon a time three blokes were going from Brisbane to Los Angeles.  Now because this was in the olden days there were no direct flights so they had to go via Sydney.
    This boring stopover gave them a lot of time to kill so they decided to also kill some brain cells with copious amounts [...]

December 10, 2009

  • How To Overdose On Precription Drugs

    While I was in Riga I lost my blood glucose meter which was annoying because it was not that old.  I bought it from Diabetes Australia and it cost at least $100 from memory plus all the test strips. It came in a nice little black carry case that made it very convenient to take [...]

December 1, 2009

  • My Name Preceeded Me

    After the debacle at Terminal 5 in Heathrow Airport it was nice to get through JFK Airport in New York without any dramas.  The only hold up was most of us needed to have our fingerprints and photo taken. It’s nice to put a face to a database.
    Travelling on a budget I headed to the [...]

November 30, 2009

  • Screwed In Terminal 5

    My mate Alex organised a mini cab to take me to Heathrow Airport.  I had booked a flight via the Qantas website using my frequent flyer points.
    The flight was a code share on a British Airways plane.  My flight was going from terminal 5 which is brand new and absolutely huge.
    I figured that i would [...]

  • Touch Up In Riga

    My last day in riga was a cold grey rainy day.
    Kris was not that pleased at having to escort me to the airport at such an early hour.  It was around 8 am when we left the apartment.  My last time that I would see Terbatas Street
    A couple of days earlier I had ditched the [...]

October 18, 2009

  • The Reid Boys Have a Lucky Escape

    One cold night in Riga, Kris and I were down in “old Riga” having a beer.  We were just shooting the breeze and people watching when we noticed some girls across the way in a bar looking at us.  Being too lazy to go over we beckoned to them to come over to us.

    Surprisingly, they [...]

October 10, 2009

  • Hell Train From Riga

    I poured a couple of stiff ones into our juice bottles. Meanwhile Kris and I discussed all sorts of world problem solving situations . We got up to go to the smokers lounge which caught the girls eye so I said “please make sure you look after our stuff” one of them replied “We will if you give us a chocolate” Now quite by a rare chance I had bought a snickers at the station so I dived into my bag of goodies and dragged it out. I handed it over to her and loved the shocked look on her face.

September 10, 2009

  • Getting An Apartment In Riga

    We arrived in Riga from Turkey on the afternoon of Wednesday 2nd September.  We took a bus form the airport and made our way to “Old Riga”.  The picture below gives a bit of a glimpse as well as Kris with a mustache, a hangover from Turkey I think.

    On Thursday we began talking to real [...]

August 28, 2009

  • Gallipoli

    Gallipoli
    We stayed in the small seaside town of Chanakakle (pronounced Shan-a-car-lay) for a couple of nights.  The town has a very nice waterfront area with lots of cafes and restaurants near the ferry terminal.  A big attraction is the horse from the movie “Troy”.
    We took the ferry in the morning over to the peninsula where [...]

  • Istanbul

    I was tired from the night flight from Singapore as I stepped off the bus in Taskim, a downtown area of Istanbul.  The foreign sights, sounds and smells were amazingly different from any I had experienced before.  Right at the bus stop was a Turkish café where my kids were waiting for me with my [...]

August 21, 2009

  • First Video From Turkey

    I tried to upload this video to youtube but found out its banned by the turkish government

July 27, 2009

April 14, 2009

  • Rambling rubbish

    The first post on my new blog site.  Really it’s just a post so I have something there to test the widgets, plugins and subscriber box.
    Years ago I set up this site to focus on home business type information along the lines of search engine optimisation, affiliate marketing and mlm or network marketing.  It was [...]