travel

Look! I do real news too! from letterfromthailand 9 days old

This is an article I was commissioned to write for a Sydney-based newspaper called The Irish Echo. It's a pretty well thought of publication with a very ...

Banged up in Dubai from letterfromthailand 44 days old

Mentioning you're a journalist often prompts people to suggest a topic they reckon you should write about. They will generally play a starring role in ...

Exploitation! from letterfromthailand 51 days old

Just over a week into my new career as a vineyard pruner, things were looking grim. We had been promised several months of continuous work on a number ...

Nature is wonderful from letterfromthailand 58 days old

Pitching a tent in the dark wasn't quite the gargantuan challenge I expected it to be so I was soon nodding off ahead of my first day's work on an Australian ...

Hell from letterfromthailand 112 days old

I had one day left in Cambodia before I flew to Australia via Singapore to try my hand at being an immigrant and Stueng Munchey was the last place on ...

Getting my mooch on from letterfromthailand 128 days old

[ ... ] The travel time and petrol costs involved in a trip from Mekong Island to the city centre where Narun makes his living means it isn't ...

Buying mates in Cambodia from letterfromthailand 133 days old

With Songkran quickly fading to a blurry memory I had two weeks in Southeast Asia to kill before I was due to arrive in Australia as an immigrant. Naturally, ...

A spot of bother from letterfromthailand 142 days old

Hangovers and boats are uneasy bedfellows but the wedding I had travelled to the isolated island of Koh Lipe in Thailand's southern-most province for ...

Denis, you're a mong from letterfromthailand 157 days old

My travel companion on my trip to my sister's wedding had inexplicably failed to meet me on a connection flight from Bangkok too the southern Thai city ...

Good to be home from letterfromthailand 288 days old

[ ... ] by the travel bug and was mid-way through a solo trip around Australia. And so it was that I hoped off the airport bus on O’Connell Street, ...