• Costa Rica,  Travels

    Packing for Costa Rica

    I’m going to be gone for at least a month, maybe more, so my backpack is stuffed pretty full of clothes and toiletries.  Here’s what’s in my carry on and in my backpack.  Amazing I managed to get it all to fit into the 50 litre backpack!  This is an old Macpac Pegasus I bought in 2012 when I did my ‘Round the World trip.  It originally came with a little 15L daypack attachment, which I’ve since left behind in Singapore as it was getting way too dirty and worn out.  That little gem had been with me through a lot and it was time to let it get some…

  • 'Round the world 2012,  Travels

    10 days to go…

    The 10 day count down begins…in 10 days time I will be in Bangkok — exotic, tropical, busy, chaotic, and wonderfully foreign. So the first post of my 3 month adventure starts.  Below is a rough mapping of my “trail”.  I’m starting off in Bangkok, doing a quick stop in Siem Reap and Ankor, before doing a thorough exploration of Vietnam.   Then it’s off to stylish Stockholm to meet up with my brother and onwards to trendy Copenhagen.  Budapest follows next as an intro to Central Europe before we spend a leisurely two weeks sailing the Croatian coast.   Unable to resist a stop to my favourite European country…