It is with considerable sadness that I write this which will be our final blog post (all will become clear). We have spent a year on the road, the water and in the air together and now it seems that our time together here in South East Asia has come to an end. To me it marks the end of a chapter in my life and an opportunity to bow out of trying to maintain a blog that has never been the regular or even semi regular update that I had hoped. With that in mind I ho...

The Philippines. In a word, brilliant. That is how I would describe our three weeks in the Philippines. Now let be very clear about the fact that I am possibly qualified to comment on about ten to fifteen out of over seven thousand islands. Suffice to say that three weeks was entirely innadequate to explore The Philippines. We actually only managed to see three of the major islands being Cebu, Luzon (capital city Manila) and Palawan. We'd heard great things about...

Borneo is apparently the third largest island in the world. Whoever wrote that obviously dosn't consider Australia to be an island as I was taught at school but whatever. Borneo is a few hundred kilometres off the East coast of Malaysia and is divided into Malaysian Borneo comprising approximately the top third of the island, Kalimantan/Indonesian Borneo and Brunei, a tiny country completely surrounded by Malaysian Borneo. Clare and I have now spent a month and a...

There comes a time when travelling with no return date in mind that some of us feel the paing of guilt. A fleeting acknowledgement that we have at the very least escaped the monotony of day to day life whilst those we care about most are still slogging it out. Whilst this feeling is not strong enough nor persistent enough to make us commit the ultimate sacrilige and return to sydney, get jobs and take up a lease on an apartment, Clare and I do recognise that we...

If anyone had told Clare and I when we left Australia in 2014 that by Mid January 2015 we would be in Thailand I would have been surprised. If they had then said that we would be living and training daily at a Muay Thai Kickboxing gym for over a month I would have outright laughed. Therefore how and why we came to be here warrants explanation. Strangely, it was actually the influence of two completely unrelated friends from completely different angles. One of our...