The first Middle Eastern country I wanted to explore once I had settled into my new life in Dubai was Jordan. I made the trip alone and with so much [ ... ]
I know watersports don’t typically spring to mind when thinking of activities in desert locations, but the Middle East has some fantastic dive sites across the Red Sea, Arabian [ ... ]
I was talking to a friend of mine this week who’s thinking of going to Japan for a holiday; just talking about it reminded me what a fab time I [ ... ]
With the start of the year, I’ve been looking ahead and trying to establish key dates for the diary before the summer. The online list I found included Dubai International [ ... ]
My friend had to return to England at that point, so she flew out from Ko Samui and I got the ‘VIP’ 24 hour bus to Bangkok – not exactly [ ... ]
We crossed the border to Thailand at Satun, via an hour-long ferry trip from Langkawi island in Malaysia. I had a spot of trouble at the border as [ ... ]
I crossed the border into Malaysia by bus from Singapore. The first stop was the historic port of Malacca, and whilst it’s not the most exciting place I [ ... ]
I arrived in Singapore feeling refreshed after a very short flight from Bali, it was reassuring to feel like we were back to civilisation again too. I stayed at [ ... ]
Bali marked the half way point for my globetrotting, and my entrance into Asia. After several months of comfort in New Zealand and Australia we flew from Perth to [ ... ]
From Cairns, it was back on a plane to fly across the country to Perth where I had two weeks staying with my friend’s family. As a backpacker in the [ ... ]
