Jetstreamjitterbug’s Weblog

Yesterday, I took the train from Nakhon Sawan to Chiang Mai. It’s about 9 hours, so I was quite tired when I arrived.
The taxi driver asked for 150 Bhat, when the guest house owner had already told me that 80-100 was reasonable. I managed to get him down to 100 pretty easily, proving that it’s [...]

Just a quick one. Didn’t get time to finish the last one as I had to get a train to Ayutthaya – the former capital of Siam, with plenty of ruins in the city centre. Am now in Nakhon Sawan on the way North. They have a lot of Chinese people here, so I came [...]

Hmm, I’ve been lazing around in the City Of Angels for nearly 2 weeks now and not done much. I did go to “the lungs of Bangkok” at the weekend, and last night “helped out” at a kindergarten for kids in one one the poorer areas of Bangkok. This consisted of shouting out “Red! One! [...]

I am back in Bangkok… Taking it easy as got some kind of bug in my last days in Sydney.
Have submitted my visa application for India, now have to wait a few days for them to process it.
Planning to head North of Bangkok when I get my passport back.

I finally got round to turning off that annoying “Snap Shot” thing that pops up when you hover over a link or image.
While I was in there, I though… New Year, New Theme!

I didn’t take any pictures in Noosa, due to problems with my batteries.
I did manage to photograph a Koala at Australia Zoo, which is between Noosa and Brisbane.

After the tour of Fraser Island, I was dropped off at Rainbow Beach, which I much preferred to Hervey Bay, the other Fraser Island “gateway”.
Why is it called Rainbow Beach? I had assumed that it was, like Surfers’ Paradise, just a nice name to attrach tourists. But in fact it’s named after the Rainbow which [...]

Now I’m in the land of cheap internet, with nothing better to do, I will upload some photographs of the past.
I believe we’d got to Fraser island, so next stop Rainbow Beach where I was dropped off by the tour bus.

Now in Sydney again.
Chilling out and trying not to spend much money (in fact, trying to spend exactly the amount of money I’ve already withdrawn…)
On Saturday I fly to Bangkok. Plans not planned for the next 6 weeks before I fly from Bangkok to Delhi, I would like to go to Laos, but might have [...]