Way back in October 2001, I was living in Sweden with my girlfriend Erika. The winter was coming and we decided that a move to Spain might be a good idea. So, we hitch-hiked from Sweden to Spain, via Denmark, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Italy and France. In Prague, we were joined by my best… Read more Hitching in Italy
Recently while travelling through Northern Thailand and Lao, I began hearing wild stories, legends perhaps, about something called “tubing”. Surely these stories were too good to be true. Tubing sounded like absolutely wicked fun to me. What is tubing? Well, let’s find out… After a long, “surging” day on a mini-bus (the driver constantly raised… Read more Tubing
Christmas 2005, five friends and I went to Vanuatu for a 16 day holiday. Not long after returning to Australia, four of my friends became rather ill with Malaria. Not very nice. I did not get sick, and I thought that perhaps I might have some sort of natural immunity after having lived in Papua… Read more Mosquitoes really do suck…
Always carry backup cash, especially in Lao where there is only one cash machine (in Vientiane) and the banks close early… After a rather interesting and tiresome journey, I came eventually on a Friday morning to the town of Pakse in southern Lao. I met a few other travellers on the bus and they were… Read more Financial Hardship
I would like to tell you a story of a complete stranger who generously gave me so much of her time and attention, purely out of genuine kindness. After spending a longer amount of time in Krakow than I had originally intended, I finally made the leap and left the Orange Hostel and all the… Read more Hitching to Zakopane
For this blog I thought I would tell you all about my recent tour with the grind core band Poppy Seed Grinder from Praha. I was in Praha and needed to get to Germany to visit friends and catch my plane to Thailand. I found out that my friend Yarda and his band Poppy Seed… Read more Poppy Seed Grinder Tour
Our Going Away Bash My travelling days had to start somewhere. This is what happened on my last night in Australia. My best friend Graham and I were walking past a travel agency one day. We stopped, regarded each other for a moment and entered. When we emerged again about half an hour later, we… Read more Our Going Away Bash
Hi! My name is Damian and this blog contains my travel stories. If anyone reads it and finds it interesting, then great! If not, well, it doesn’t matter. Firstly, a little about myself. I was born in a small town called Te Kuiti, in the north island of New Zealand, and my family moved to… Read more About Damo