On the way
Job hunting has certainly been an eye opener. In my life pre travel I was an executive assistant, a blooming good one too, I’ve worked for Chairman level bosses for over ten years with...
Tagged: be brave
…best laid schemes of mice and men…
When we first had the seemingly crazy idea to leave our jobs, home, family and friends we knew we didn’t want to spend our last year living in central London in our heads imagining...
Hibernation
After almost six hundred days in weather consistently in the thirties landing in London at minus two degrees was a bit of a shock to the system. The film of tiredness and plane grime covering...
The Spiral
I was thinking about returning to England, about how we would have come full circle and then about how it seems to me there is no such thing, more a spiral of life that...
crossroads
After an amazing five hundred and seventy seven days exploring South East Asia we are at a crossroads. Being a diving instructor is certainly not a career move, the pay is awful, the hours long,...
Happy New Year
It isn’t that 2016 has been particularly awful, humankind has been pretty shitty to itself for the last thousand years or so. It’s one thing we seem pretty good at, being shitty to each...
ChinaTown Food Crawl
With mum in Bangkok of course we took the opportunity for another food tour. This time we chose Taste of Thailand’s ChinaTown Food Tour. On a hot and balmy Friday evening we met the...
An open letter to great dive shops everywhere
Foreword, after writing the original post I was reminded of the reality of our situation. When we left London the intention was to have an amazing adventure and find something to do and somewhere...
Christmas in Bangkok
After the excitement of passing my PADI open water scuba instructor exams, it was soon time to leave lovely Panglao and head to Bangkok to await Ma’s arrival for Christmas. Leaving the Philippines was...
appearances can be deceptive – edited
It’s been an up and down adrenaline tinged few weeks, the rush of passing the PADI Open water scuba instructor exams soon faded into a panic to look for work, something I resolutely refused to...
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