I've had a lot of time to think about the imminent return back to the life I left behind It’s stirred in me mixed feelings and a kind of detached numbness, much like the first days of my travels sitting on that stray street corner outside the station of Bangkok over four months ago. Now, I have returned, a sense of excitement and accomplishment overwhelms me. To make it this far and see the fruits of my efforts in a passive soul, a grateful heart and a pers...

I am back in Australia. Over the last few months I have "reported “from many different countries, all in all 21 of them . Starting in Singapore travelling across South East Asia, China, Mongolia and via Russia to the Baltic States and Western Europe to former Yugoslavia and a few places in between. My blog readers are from a wide variety of countries so I thought to be appropriate to finish by a “show and tell" of the area I live in. Everyone knows t...

Day 124 22 Aug 2013 This morning I got a text and phone call from my mate Ted Wesselius asking "Where are you?" “ One floor below you I answered.” I was in the middle of getting some money out of an ATM as I needed to pay Rob for items he had paid for getting my motorcycle into shape. Last night I had stayed with a friend in the city of Alkmaar and had a late night with wine, prawns and salad and a roast beef roll. On the way there I passed the sle...