Oh baby, she’s got it.
A cripplingly painful stomach bug, that is.
Serves me right. After reassuring my nearest and dearest that I really am being careful and that it’s safe to eat from street kitchens, I’ve spent the last 24 hours shivering, vomiting, and sleeping. Not to mention taking a two-hour train journey.
You’ll have to ask [...]
Entries from January 2006
January 28, 2006
She’s got it…
January 28, 2006
Culture Vultures (Eat the Parsi Dead)
We’ve been in Delhi for a few days now but haven’t really done much sightseeing, preferring instead to walk, shop, and drink gallons of tea. Yesterday we hiked up to the train station and organised tickets to Agra, then Jaipur, then back home – tomorrow we leave for the Taj. So today we decided to [...]
January 26, 2006
Airport Security Love
And so we find ourselves in Delhi, having been thoroughly frisked and hit upon by both male and female employees of the Kathmandu international aiport. Helen got felt up a bit too enthusiastically by a female security guard – what exactly did they think she would be smuggling? – and I had a guy tell [...]
January 23, 2006
Back in Kathmandu
So. For those of you who have been worried, we’re safe and sound here, and have only done risky things accidentally; for those of you who don’t read the newspapers, well, there’s no excuse for you.
I’ll write a bit about the political feeling here when I’m out of Nepal and not so worried about government [...]
January 21, 2006
Fear and Loathing in Kathmandu
Yesterday got off to an auspicious start: I boarded the plane for Kathmandu, and over 100 civil and political leaders here were arrested in sweeping civil rights violations.
It was on the front page of the Kathmandu Post today, along with the news that, to prevent the planned demonstrations that were to have closed off some [...]
January 17, 2006
On the road again
Well, that’s it for Hoi An – I’m in Nha Trang at the moment, which is pretty much the Surfer’s Paradise of Vietnam, in a ridiculously overpriced internet cafe that doubles as a bar. There’s free internet for an hour if you order a drink – hm.
It’s odd to think that my time in Vietnam [...]
January 14, 2006
Friday the 13th…
…was actually full of good things, as at night it played host to Hoi An’s monthly Full Moon Festival.
I stumbled out of the internet cafe last night in search of a bowl of cao lau, a Hoi An specialty that is not particularly kosher but exceptionally delicious. I’ve been a bit slack with the vegetarianism [...]
January 13, 2006
Cruising along
Not much to report – I’ve been taking it easy these last few days, having a holiday from being on the road. It’s been nice: I’ve eaten banana crepes for breakfast, had coffee on the waterfront, read, watched overwrought French period dramas on TV5Monde, navigated the markets a bit.
I did manage to make it out [...]
January 13, 2006
I [heart] Hoi An
I’ve been in Hoi An for the last couple of days, and I don’t want to leave. This place is so incredibly vibrant. At first it seems very commercial – everyone wants to sell you something. But between the kitchy souvenir shops are proper art galleries, patisseries, a sprinkling of temples, book exchange stalls, [...]
January 11, 2006
French Colonial Food Porn
Last night, during our 11pm dinner stop, I sat around with some people from the bus and we reminisced about the foods we missed. Garth and Emma – from Brunswick of all places, by Merri Creek – wanted potato cakes; Andrew, the ambiguously accented Scottish or Irish guy, wanted fried mars bars; I had a [...]
