Rick on October 30th, 2009

It was with an air of confidence and a strangely undeserved sense of belonging and homeliness that I stepped off the plane at Sydney airport after an uneventful flight from Bangkok. I was back! The familiarity of Sydney was comforting as I made my way through this city I had only briefly lived in. I had been [...]

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Rick on October 17th, 2009

Thailand has long been a country which has held a particular fascination for me. Over the years I have spoken to many people that have visited, lived or been brought up there and the descriptions I listened to only served to fan the flames of mystery the culture and country holds for me; and when [...]

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Rick on October 12th, 2009

When we decided that we would try and meet up with our Croatian friends Iva and Maja before we left the Northern hemisphere we got in touch with some preliminary dates, and found out that Maja was not going to be in Croatia for a couple of months. She was going to be studying in [...]

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Rick on October 5th, 2009

When I was planning my trip back to Australia, I had anticipated a few weeks or months in Asia to break up the journey. But after meeting our Croatian friends at Roskilde earlier in the year, it seemed like we might have another better option. I still wanted to break up the long flight from [...]

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