How does your work day start? Probably something like turning on your computer at 9am and grabbing that much needed filter coffee. All before you begin your 8 hours of answering emails, meeting monthly sales targets and avoiding your uptight bosses ever watchful gaze. As a teacher, my day is comparatively extremely different. Ready for class teacher? By 9am, I am well into my second ...
Welcome to Gaya-Eup, Haman, my new home in Korea - 20 odd minutes from the coastal city of Changwon. The best set of directions I could give you is to drive away from Changwon until you see a giant watermelon slice suspended above the road. You see it? You think it looks odd too? Well done... your in Haman! A view of the river from Gaya. Admittedly, at first I was a little shocked ...
So sure that I was of leaving the land of morning calm, that I packed away my chopsticks threw away my animal patterned socks and made a pact to taste fermented cabbage for the last time. Moving forward to normal pizza toppings, a steady 9-5 marketing job. Back to where I came from. A great two years it had been, as I waved Korea goodbye from a plane in the clouds. I had grown so much in ...
Our last two nights were spent in Ubud, inland on the Eastern side of Bali. Although we were not there for very long, I genuinely loved Ubud. I would definitely go back. The area is covered in lush jungle and surrounded by rice fields. On every street there are Hindu temples and small bamboo baskets full of offerings to the gods. The temple and wishing well at Monkey Forrest- ...
After backpacking through the main land of Java, we decided to give Bali – and the island of Gili Trawangan, a try. I forgot to mention previously that I have done all my traveling with my old uni buddy, Gabi (said gaahhrr bie – like a pirate because shes Afrikaans). We have spent the better part of the last two weeks in the sun with heavy backpacks on our shoulders. A restaurant ...
One of the stops along our way backpacking through Indonesia, was the city of Yogyakarta (said like Jog-ja-karta) to see the temple of Borobodur as well as some of the coffee plantations in the area. This Buddhist temple, which was built in the 9th century is about the oldest establishment I have ever visited. The pictures couldn't quite capture its sheer size and intricacy. Along ...
