Backpacking or camera backpack problem
Most backpacks are primarily designed for backpacking – for storing travel stuff, rather than for storing cameras and camcorders. Other backpacks, often called camera backpacks, are primarily designed for storing cameras and camcorders rather than for travel stuff
This article looks …
April 25, 2009
Thai family life bathing
It was pretty strange to have a family around me after traveling alone for so long
It was like discovering a strange tribe, a tribe that had rituals, close relationships and mutual dependency – all the things that I wasn’t accustomed …
February 10, 2009
Camcorder backpack attitude problem
Buying a backpack for a professional camcorder for use on a film making expedition can be confusing – or maybe I just have an attitude problem
There are quite a few good brands of backpacks out there – ‘Kata’ springs to …
November 3, 2008
Bangkok boat stop
I have no idea why I remember the name of my boat stop in Bangkok, Thailand
Maybe it’s because it was so unusual to have a boat stop instead of a bus stop or a train stop. Because …
September 10, 2008
Bizarre backpacking van
This is the old van that I used for backpacking around Australia - sometimes it felt as if I was driving an advertisement around
The ad. on the side of the van is for a neon lighting company – a company called …
August 15, 2008
Disappointing Jim Morrison grave
I’m pretty disappointed with Jim Morrison’s grave.
The train ride to the cemetery, on the Paris `Metro’ transit system, is pretty disappointing, the entrance to the cemetery is pretty disappointing, the route to the grave is pretty disappointing and the grave …
August 3, 2008
Messing around with cooking
Ex-army backpacking equipment has an air of reliability about it – if an army depended on it it must be reliable.
This attitude conveniently ignores the fact that armies are sometimes defeated, whether they have reliable equipment or not.
I mean, who …
August 1, 2008
Battle scene comparisons
When I was backpacking around the World War 1 battle scenes a strange thing happened, I started to compare the time it took me to travel a certain distance with the time it took the soldiers in WW1 to travel …
Turkey means Ataturk
Just about everybody in Turkey seems to be enthusiastic about Ataturk, and after a while you start to get enthusiastic about him too – at least I did
But the question is, was this really enthusiasm? Or was it just a …
July 31, 2008
Historical backpacking map
Map of travel destination popular with backpackers
This is a map of Tully and district, in north Queensland, Australia, a town which was and still is pretty popular with backpackers.
Working like a dog
It’s the center of the …
July 30, 2008
Backpacking with gun
Backpacking with gun
It isn’t essential to carry a gun when you’re backpacking, it’s just insurance
I carried this rifle around with me when I was backpacking around Australia a few years’ ago. It’s a .22 rimfire Anschutz rifle, and the great thing …
My oh Myanmar
Flight to Myanmar
`We flew with UBA, United Burma Airlines. This makes it seem like a conscious decision, as if we had plenty of choice, as if we’d thoroughly researched the world’s leading airlines for reliability and customer service and had finally …