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Ginger sees the world: February 2009

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Ginger sees the world. Tuesday, 3 February 2009. Adventures in the Gong. After managing to burn myself on Waipu beach I was a bit nervous about Australia, as although northern New Zealand was hot it was nothing to what Australia in mid-summer would be like. Temperatures in the mid-30s are normal, and we’d heard reports in NZ that Sydney had hit 41 the day before I was due to arrive. Oh well, beats January mornings in Walthamstow. Susie, my friend from the Buenos Aires Spanish school lives about an hour a...

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Ginger sees the world: April 2009

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Ginger sees the world. Saturday, 18 April 2009. Zen and the art of snowboarding. For weeks before, and during, my time in Tokyo I’d been trying to organise going snowboarding in northern Japan. I’m no great snowboarder, in fact I’m pretty amateurish really, but I love doing it and Japan has the best snow in the world, so it seemed rude not to at least have a look while I was in this part of the world. I caught an overnight train from Tokyo to Sapporo, which was an experience in itself. Sixteen hours ...

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Ginger sees the world: November 2008

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Ginger sees the world. Monday, 24 November 2008. Who'd a thought it. As enjoyable as my week in Ushuaia has been for a wole variety of reasons, the one thing I haven't done yet, and which every other traveller in this part of the world is intent on, is a trek. So this morning, I donned my trekking gear (yes, I have some! However, I felt having come all this way I should at least give it a go. And at least this walk had a purpose, there was an aim, an endpoint - the glacier. Though when the guy on...I got...

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Ginger sees the world: September 2008

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Ginger sees the world. Sunday, 28 September 2008. Santa Barbara, CA (1,426 miles, 84f). The sea mist here is really incredible, I've never seen anything like it. It hangs up to about 100 feet above sea level and is thick that inside it it's like a gloomy day in November at home, but once you're above it it's bright 90f California sunshine. Really weird. San Simeon, CA (1,268 miles, 75f). Today was all about Big Sur. We mooched about Santa Cruz for the morning, went to the beach, got sunburnt and stro...

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Ginger sees the world: May 2009

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Ginger sees the world. Saturday, 30 May 2009. It’s not often you get the opportunity to see one of the wonders of the world, so I thought as they were only 10 hours up the road I better go and have a look at the rice terraces of Banaue. I was pretty tired from my trip to Brunei so fell asleep in the taxi from my centrally located hotel out to Sampaloc, and the chaos that greeted me when the cab driver dropped me off brought me back to reality with a jolt. I have to be honest, I was frightened. There were...

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Ginger sees the world: July 2009

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Ginger sees the world. Tuesday, 21 July 2009. When I was in. Get used to it, you're going to hear it ALOT! After staying on to do the Advanced diving, I only had two days in Bangkok- not something I was too worried about as I had a pretty good feel for Asian cities by now. I don't know why, but Manila, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok are seemingly interchangeable. There seems to be no obvious differences between them in the way there are obvious differences between say Rome and London. The rubbish weather did m...

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Ginger sees the world: Home time

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Ginger sees the world. Tuesday, 21 July 2009. After staying on to do the Advanced diving, I only had two days in Bangkok- not something I was too worried about as I had a pretty good feel for Asian cities by now. I don't know why, but Manila, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok are seemingly interchangeable. There seems to be no obvious differences between them in the way there are obvious differences between say Rome and London. I did make friends with one of the locals though. The rubbish weather did mean though,...

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Ginger sees the world: January 2009

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Ginger sees the world. Thursday, 29 January 2009. I was able to escape the travelling teenagers and head out onto the water for my last day in the Bay of Islands. Hanging around with this teenage crowd really isn’t for me and I’m going to have to do some serious thinking about how to spend the next nine months if it is going to be like this, but more of that later. Again it was an early start (why don’t these tour operators take into account just how lazy I am in the mornings? The clouds came in and the ...

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Ginger sees the world: Town of the apes

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Ginger sees the world. Tuesday, 21 July 2009. Town of the apes. After three weeks on islands, I was ready for a bit of civilisation. If you can call Krabi civilisation - anywhere monkey men carry the traffic lights is a bit suspect in my mind! The town nestles on a river and is very picturesque, so I busied myself trying to take arty photos of the 'sea gypsys' who lived on the opposite bank. The garlic and chili fish was probably the hottest thing I have ever eaten though. In the end my mind was made up ...