Japan – Get all the food in my belly
Arriving in Japan to udon noodles in the airport and tempura (featured image above) is a good way to start a trip. And it only gets better from there… Free sweet samples throughout Otaru with more great food and delicious …Read More »
Japan – Orphans Christmas and New Years
Making fresh lines and eating good food with great people pretty much sums up my December. Missing all of my close family and friends around this time of the year, but as far as orphans Christmases go, this one was …Read More »
Japan – Winter is coming…
A flight from Oz to Tokyo where I put my airport sleeping skills to good use before flying to Sapporo the next morning. Work and meeting new friends, snow and of course amazing Japanese food.Read More »
Australia – Home Time
Being back in Australia was a weird feeling, all the more so from being in limbo between travels. Even with this, it was great to see everyone and I’m sad to be moving on to Japan so quickly. I spent …Read More »
16hrs in Singapore
From Athens it was a harmless flight into Singapore even though we arrived at like 330am. A couple of hours sleep on the airport floor and then we were off to explore the city and eat some dim sum!! Braving …Read More »
Greece – Meteora Monasteries, Delphi and Athens
From Santorini Megan and I took an overnight ferry on the 5th of October to Athens where we got a hire car and drove to Meteora. We spent the night in Meteora watching the sunset over the valley and monasteries. …Read More »
Greece – Mount Olympus
After the Monasteries at Meteora, Megan and I made our way to a town called Litochoro. Litochoro is at the base of the Olympus Mountain Range where we planned to hike to the highest peak, Mytikas, staying a night in …Read More »
Greece – Crete and Santorini
An overnight ferry from Athens took the Caters and I to Hania, Crete. We had an apartment for a few days to get to know the city and visit the beach which was only a minute walk down the road. …Read More »
Greece – Food Adventures Around The Islands
All around the islands we found sun, sea, swimming, smiles, s-food and s-laughter. Who doesn’t love the Mediterranean diet, everything is delicious!! I could eat giros all day long!!Read More »
Greece – The Ionian Islands
From Sarandë, Albania on the ferry to cross over to Corfu, Greece. Day 1 was spent swimming and starting our foray into Greek food. Giros and moussaka for lunch with a follow-up of baklava. Megan went to the airport to …Read More »
Montenegro – Hiking Bobotov Kuk
In the middle of our time in Montenegro, we travelled across the country to Žabljak in preparation to hike Bobotov Kuk (a mountain) in Durmitor National Park. The day was clear and beautifully sunny as we ascended, starting around 7:30am from …Read More »
Montenegro
Woke up in France, walked to the Swiss side of the Basel Airport, caught a plane to Croatia, got on a bus and now I am in Montenegro. The first two nights were spent in the old city of Kotor. …Read More »
France – Alsace
Straight to La Vancelle where we made our base to spend a couple of weeks with Susie and Burnsie. We wasted no time getting the shopping done and beginning the two weeks of food and wine overindulgence. Day 1 was …Read More »
France – Paris
After a week in London, I took a bus across to France to meet up with Megan, Mimo, Dougal, Steph and Jarrah. A week of amazing food and just as amazing sights.Read More »
England – London
From Antigua, Guatemala I spent a day flying across the world and ended up in London. Amy was nice enough to put up with me for a week and we had loads of fun hanging out. We ticked off things …Read More »
Honduras – Freediving and Volcanoes
Arriving back on the Island of Utila to much excitement for learning to freedive. Day 1 was our introduction to learning and practicing the fundamentals, including breathing techniques and different ways to equalise were day one of the course. Day …Read More »
Nicaragua – Visitors and Birthdays
The warm salty ocean air, sunlight reflecting off the deep green swell, gliding along effortlessly on a catamaran, frisbee games on a private beach, an open bar and fresh ceviche. Jarrahs birthday in a nutshell. Blake, Jarrah and Mikey arrived …Read More »
Costa Rica – Hiking Cerro Chirripó
From the coast, we struck inland, heading to San Gerardo to make a base for hiking the tallest mountain in Costa Rica, Cerro Chirripó. They recommend doing it as an overnight hike, first getting to the base camp some 14km …Read More »
Costa Rica – Beaches, Sloths and Cities
Across the border from Nicaragua and down to the Pacific Coast in search of sloths in Manuel Antonio National Park. We made our base at the town of Quepos for two days, spending one at the beach and another walking …Read More »
Nicaragua
To enter Nicaragua from El Salvador, we had to take four buses, a full twelve hours of travel and crossing two country borders. Needless to say, the tropical heat, carrying our bags and cramped buses made it a long day. …Read More »
Honduras & El Salvador
A night stopover in Mexico City and then we landed in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The heat and humidity when landing back in Central America was like a slap in the face. Instant sticky, sweaty skin and damp clothes. But …Read More »
USA – Sequoia National Park and Death Valley
We headed through Yosemite National Park and out to Sequoia National Park. On the way out we stopped roadside to watch a mumma bear and her two cubs play in a meadow. So glad we finally saw some bears!! We …Read More »
USA – Yosemite National Park
We picked Megan up from San Francisco airport on her arrival back in the US and drove West to Yosemite, only stopping for a quick look in Costco and to buy some groceries on the way. We arrived late that …Read More »
USA – San Francisco
I’d only ever been to San Fran once before, coincidentally it was with Mat last time we were in the US together in 2013. We were flying to Cancun and had to do a one night stopover in the city …Read More »
USA – Las Vegas and the Pacific Coast
The bright lights of Las Vegas were my greeting as I arrived in the US. I met up with Mat and Michelle (MnM) and we spent a few days doing the rounds, drinking too much and staying out way too …Read More »
Canada – Bye Bye for now
I’m pretty sure mother nature was drunk for the end of April. She gave us some mild weather, then one of the biggest dumps of the season with easily 30 or 40cm of powder overnight and then days later back …Read More »
Canada – Ice Fishing
Yesterday was an ice fishing adventure where we hiked the short distance out to Mud Lake. We post-holed (where each step your leg sinks deep into the snow) through the forest, all the while hoping not to come across any …Read More »
Canada – Marmot Basin
Two mates organised for us to head the 2.5hrs up the Icefield Parkway and into Jasper to board at Marmot Basin Resort. We roped in some others to come along for the fun and so two cars left to arrive …Read More »
Canada – A little of this and that.
With around a month left in the season, the temps have started to climb and all the snow and ice started to melt. Little rivers dripping from the roofs and running down the streets each day as the snow slowly …Read More »
Canada – Snowboarding Roadtrip
The seven day road trip started off with picking up a brand new Chrysler Pacifica, only 1600kms on the clock as our hire car. With all the fancy features that we were still discovering at the tail end of our …Read More »
Canada – Megan back on the snow!
Just a few sneaky snaps of Megan getting back on the snow this week. I did a foray into the park with Andrew and had a couple of big crashes on the medium jumps but had lots of fun. Next …Read More »
Canada – Cross country skiing and torchlight.
Highlights of February besides boarding and the return of Andy-boy at the end of the month were the torchlight night and a cross country skiing adventure with my housemate Johannes. Torchlight was on February 14th, Valentines day and Megan was …Read More »
Canada – Edmonton
Megan, Andrew and I hired a car and took a drive out to Edmonton which is a bit under 5hrs away. A change of scenery was good and visiting the Ice Castles and West Edmonton Mall was good fun. The …Read More »
Canada – Adventures with Andyboy
Andrew and still here and I’m still between jobs so I have taken advantage of the company and we’ve had a bunch of adventures. Snowboarding has occupied most of our time with some fantastic days on the mountain. Lots of …Read More »
Canada – The end of snowmaking
So this week gone was the last week of snowmaking. I finished the season on a high with a snowmobile tour of the mountain on the last night shift. Myself and two other snowmakers on snowmobiles made tracks all across …Read More »