Bringing everyone back home

So, I am coming back. All has been arranged. Tomorrow a bus will bring me to Bangkok, a night there and then off I go, to Italy first, for a beer-stop at KM-ZERO and then maybe to London, for an interview and a course. I am on a double mind. Part of me is willing […]

On trains and bus

Travelling overland in Asia is not joke. You can choose between 5 kinds of train ticket, 6 if you consider the luxury options, but I do not. Soft seats with air conditioning: actually like our new European train, the bus-type one, with no compartments, not fully reclinabled, supposed to be modern and more confortable but […]

tonight a bus save my life…

… from a burger king. It is not easy coming back “home” at 3 in the morning, after a busy night spent drinking beer in a unlicensed bar’s terrace and ending talking about opening a bar in Tahilandia with an Italian bio-engineer in a corner of a hidden square in central Hong Kong. Even if […]

Leaving Beijing

Beijing at 4.30 in the morning. A misty light reveals the city profile and it could be easily New York now. Food stalls at the corners of the streets sell breakfast of dumplings and kebabb and tea. Chinese girls search for taxis or any ride home. Chinese girls wear mini skirts and short very short […]

Bad News 2

So at least I fix one of my problems. I had to bite a bitter morsel and make a little compromise for my flyless trip, but at the end I would be in Hong Kong on time for my flight to Europe. I booked a flight to Shenzen and from there I can reach Hong […]

Bad News!

my trip got a huge blow yesterday! The agency in Singapore told me that all the passenger service are suspended from Singapore. The only other way to get to Australia by boat it is to embark in China or South Corea or Taiwan. It means at the end it could not be possible for me […]

Ready Steady Go

Leaving is not always the easy bit of a trip. You will be never sure of everything is right, if something has been going missing during the night (it happens, it is the monaceddhru at work), if you forgot something that has no importance now but that would be disastrous in a few days. In […]