Packed and ready to go... 141 days
2024年9月11日, オーストラリア ⋅ 🌙 28 °C
First stop Bali, then Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore then back to Bali
First stop. Beach and Bintangs
2024年9月12日, インドネシア ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Y bar and NRL Finals
2024年9月15日, インドネシア ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
C'mon Manly
Unexpected sleep over in KL
2024年9月17日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Feels like proper travel starts today...look out Sri Lanka.
Passed My Sri Lankan TukTuk License
2024年9月17日, スリランカ ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Navigated a 1 hour Negombo to Colombo traffic without incident (just)
$4 Tallies and trainspotting
2024年9月18日, スリランカ ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
In Bentota. Our villa is 50m from the beach across the train line. Beers and trainspotting might be my new hobby
Covert beer
2024年9月18日, スリランカ ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
When your restaurant hasn't paid their liquour license. Hide it in a giant Lion cooler that you can't drink out of. For scale that's a 500ml can
Class M4 #746
2024年9月18日, スリランカ ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
My trainspotting has started
Traffic navigation 101
2024年9月19日, スリランカ ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
The buses are psycho, but it is the varied speed between cars, buses, scooters, trucks and bicycles that test your gross motor skills
School is in session
2024年9月20日, スリランカ ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Suspended in the first week and the principal and teacher want to quit
Trainspotting continues
2024年9月20日, スリランカ ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Class S13 #969 and Class M7 #802
Sri Lanka test match
2024年9月22日, スリランカ ⋅ 🌬 30 °C
Currently at the Sri Lanka vs New Zealand test match at Galle Cricket ground. Very weird as currently only foreigners are allowed in (for free) due to a nationwide curfew currently being imposed as aもっと詳しく
Sri Lanka Test Match Galle Cricket Club
2024年9月22日, スリランカ ⋅ 🌬 30 °C
Got into the members club / grandstand. Too good. And they finally finished the curfew so the Sri Lankans could get into the ground and build the atmosphere. NZ needing 68 to win with 2 in the shed
Finally feels like travel
2024年9月23日, スリランカ ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Weligama. Glad to show the kids proper travel outside of tourist restaurants etc. Beer - $1.50. Dinner (kottu and hoppers - $1.50) and finally some surf...videos to follow. Loving the chaos but itもっと詳しく
Weligama Surf
2024年9月24日, スリランカ ⋅ 🌬 30 °C
Some videos and pics from a full day at the beach. The kids were keen for a surf. Not a bad little break next to a small island about 200m from our accommodation. FYI the island has a villa on itもっと詳しく
More surf Videos
2024年9月24日, スリランカ ⋅ 🌬 30 °C
Last night in Mirissa
2024年9月27日, スリランカ ⋅ 🌬 30 °C
Sad to be leaving probably our best spot of the trip so far but hopefully on to better things tomorrow with a 2.5 hour drive to Udawalawe National Park for some elephant spotting (and hopefully more).もっと詳しく
Bit of rain
2024年9月29日, スリランカ ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
We have been so lucky with the weather. Dry 2.5 hour drive inland to our accommodation...10 mins later the skies opened. Early start in the morning for our safari with clear skies apart from about 20もっと詳しく
Udawalawe NP Safari
2024年9月29日, スリランカ ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
I can't say much more than what the photos already say. I think the kids really enjoyed their first safari. Elephants, spotted deer, 2 types of monkeys, mongoose, hornbills, crocodiles, 1 millionもっと詳しく
Hiriketiya (Hipster beach)
2024年10月1日, スリランカ ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Quite a nice little bay with reasonable surf but it felt a bit like it's more for the influenzas... a bit much for someone with grey in his beard. Which reminds me.... 2 twenty somethings from NZ atもっと詳しく
Tissa Lake
2024年10月2日, スリランカ ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
Sensational hotel on Tissa Lake, our base for Yala National Park. Great pool, awesome dinner (finally some meat) and had the place almost to ourselves until sunset when a tour group rolled in.
Yala National Park
2024年10月3日, スリランカ ⋅ 🌬 32 °C
Got very lucky today starting with a freak sighting of a sloth bear (only about 20 in the park) topped off by an even rarer, luckier sighting of a Leopard (only about 20 in the whole park). Alsoもっと詳しく
Elephant Highway B35
2024年10月4日, スリランカ ⋅ ☁️ 34 °C
Took a chance driving on the highway through Yala National Park (there is a history of elephants charging and pushing tuk tuks over). Feel like we got lucky to have a large bull blocking the road onlyもっと詳しく
More of my new hobby
2024年10月5日, スリランカ ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
This time Class S14 #982 and S14A #989 in Ella with tea plantation in the background. It also turns out that I am the family champion of tea picking...had the largest basket to fill but also theもっと詳しく
Trainspotter's Heaven
2024年10月6日, スリランカ ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
9 arch bridge today. Luck continues to be on our side again. With no planning we arrived at 9 arch bridge only waiting for 10mins for a train to pass. Decided to walk back to Ella via the train lineもっと詳しく