Blessed to be a witness

February

Wednesday 9th
Thursday 10th
Thursday 10th
Friday 11th
Friday 11th
Saturday 12th
Monday 14th
Monday 14th
Wednesday 16th
Friday 18th
Saturday 19th
Monday 21st
Tuesday 22nd
Wednesday 23rd
Thursday 24th
Friday 25th
Sunday 27th
Monday 28th

| Back in Hong Kong Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
| Round the world in a breakfast
| Cantonese
| No, I don't want a copy-watch
| Half a million people saying "wah"
| Ha ha ha, in your face hotel
| Spare us the lounge singers
| Laptop
| It all went pear-shaped
| The hardware is good but the software is bad Shanghai
| Get off my shoes
| This country brought to you by McDonalds, Häagen-Dazs, and KFC
| Gob on you Beijing
| Oh monsieur you are really spoiling us
| Shop till you drop
| Hat trick!
| I am an idiot
| All that glitters

 

March

Wednesday 2nd
Friday 4th
Sunday 6th
Monday 7th
Wednesday 9th
Thursday 10th
Friday 11th
Saturday 12th
Sunday 13th
Monday 14th
Wednesday 16th
Thursday 17th
Friday 18th
Saturday 19th
Sunday 20th
Monday 21st
Tuesday 22nd
Wednesday 23rd
Thursday 24th
Friday 25th
Saturday 26th
Monday 28th
Thursday 31st

| Wu's on first Xi'an
| Souvenir warriors
| Dirt dumplings Chengdu
| Hot hot hotpot
| Cuteness: 1; evolution: nil
| Too cozy by half
| Little Tibet
| Call that a Big Buddha?
| An appetising digression
| I wasn't scared Lhasa
| Lhasa so far
| You must be Jokhang
| Peeing at the Potala
| I've been eating a lot of yak
| Dirty beggars
| Up and away Lhasa - Gyantse
| I know why Tibetans don't wash Gyantse - Lhatse
| Base Camp Lhatse - Rongbuk
| The worst hotel in the world Rongbuk
| Just a phone, we always keep around you Rongbuk - Lhatse - Shigatse
| Back to civilisation Shigatse - Lhasa
| Attack of the tripods Chengdu
| Bit pilli-walli

 

April

Saturday 2nd
Tuesday 5th
Thursday 7th
Sunday 10th
Monday 11th
Wednesday 13th
Thursday 14th
Friday 15th
Sunday 17th
Tuesday 19th
Wednesday 20th
Friday 22nd
Sunday 24th
Tuesday 26th
Thursday 28th
Friday 29th
Saturday 30th    

| One night in... Bangkok, Thailand
| All change
| Penang Georgetown, Malaysia
| Mr Moto Batu Ferringhi
| Monitored and rumbled
| "Crumbling shophouses" Kuala Lumpur
| In praise of certain things
| Stranded in the colonies
| We got adopted
| Ooh me head
| 14 Para Mersing
| Paradise gained Salang, Pulau Tioman
| I don't do beaches
| Paradise lost Singapore
| Muthu's story
| Four Floors of Whores
| The Singaporean dream

 

May

Monday 2nd
Tuesday 3rd
Thursday 5th
Sunday 8th
Tuesday 10th
Wednesday 11th
Thursday 12th
Monday 16th
Friday 20th
Monday 23rd
Thursday 26th
Saturday 28th
Monday 30th      

| Tsunami tourism Patong, Phuket, Thailand
| Sodom and Gomorrah
| Some of these are very bad
| I'm a-stranded in paradise Ko Phi Phi
| Leonardo's missing millions
| Underwater dustmen
| Plus ca change...
| "Without, can not do"
| Miss Universe, mass panic
| Something extraordinary is happening here
| I do all my own stunts
| Such a perfect day
| Visa run

 

June

Friday 4th
Wednesday 8th
Saturday 11th
Wednesday 15th
Monday 20th
Thursday 23rd
Saturday 25th
Saturday 25th
Monday 27th
Thursday 30th    

| Reservoir Dogs and cats
| The PP Plan Diet
| Holiday in Holiday Inn
| Lifestyles of the rich and famous
| For Emily, wherever he may find her
| I found Nemo
| Tsunami information sheets
| Carnival!
| Blessed to be a witness Bangkok
| Reservoir redux

 

July

Friday 1st
Saturday 2nd
Thursday 7th
Saturday 9th
Tuesday 12th
Saturday 16th
Tuesday 19th
Thursday 21st
Saturday 23rd
Sunday 24th
Monday 25th
Saturday 30th     

| Du temps perdu Hanoi, Vietnam
| The cheapest beer in the world
| A different country Halong Bay
| You can never go back Hue
| Lying in a darkened room Hoi An
| No room at the inn Nha Trang
| Jing, Jim, Jing Saigon
| It could have been my fault (sorry, Bali) Bangkok, Thailand
| A wonderful day Koh Phi Phi
| A horrible evening
| Cmdr. George B.L. Smith, RN, OBE
| Leaving Phi Phi Changi Airport, Singapore

 

August

Monday 1st
Wednesday 3rd
Thursday 4th
Sunday 7th
Tuesday 9th
Thursday 11th
Saturday 13th
Monday 15th
Tuesday 16th
Wednesday 17th
Thursday, 18th
Friday, 19th
Saturday, 20th
Sunday, 21st
Tuesday, 23rd
Thursday, 25th
Monday, 29th
Tuesday, 30th     

| Brissy Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| Travelling in a fried-out kombi Hervey Bay
| A beef with this capital Rockhampton
| Freezing in the tropics Airlie Beach
| This is getting ridiculous Childers
| Finally, a place I like Byron Bay
| Jimmy don't surf Wollongong, NSW
| A nice place to live... Canberra, ACT
| Two-pot screamer
| It's all kicking off in Canberra
| Bad dish, good dish Parkes, NSW
| Madder than a cut snake Leura
| The Great Escape Sydney
| Emily update
| That's more like it
| Oysters and crabs
| A blinding headache
| The kindness of strangers

 

September

Thursday 1st
Sunday 4th
Monday 5th
Wednesday 7th
Friday 9th
Sunday 11th
Thursday 15th
Friday 16th
Monday 19th
Tuesday 20th
Tuesday 20th
Thursday 22nd
Sunday 25th
Tuesday 27th
Wednesday 28th
Friday 30th       

| More English than England Christchurch, New Zealand
| Welcome to Middle Earth Lake Tepako
| Avant ski Queenstown
| Sound as a pound Milford Sound
| Bored of scenery Franz Josef
| Another invitation to an Embassy Wellington
| A very small plane Taupo
| Rubbernecking Mount Maunganui
| The Roaring Forties
| Hail and high fodder Auckland
| The middle of nowhere Rarotonga, Cook Islands
| The odd epiphany
| Island time
| Swimming with whales
| No dreams and LAX Los Angeles, CA, USA
| Family matters Signal Mountain, TN

 

October

Saturday 1st
Tuesday 4th
Wednesday 5th
Sunday, 9th
Friday, 14th
Saturday, 15th    

| Too much choice
| I heart NY New York, NY
| The Perfect New York Moment
| Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood Borgo di Tragliata, Italy
| Tuscan dawns Barga, Tuscany
| Our travels now are over Chalk Farm, London

 

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