I thought I would start this blog a few days before I embark on my epic trip around Asia and the Antipodeans. My flight leaves this coming Sunday 21st October.
I have two Credit cards, two months unpaid leave, 14 flights, 2 trains, 2 ferries and a big packet of Imodium to get me through. I hope I can update this blog fairly regularly to keep you all up to date, although some places I am going to don't have Internet, and predictably, some times I will be far too lazy.
I have been planning and fine tuning this trip since July, so hopefully nothing can go wrong ;)
My companion for the journey is a filmmaker friend of mine called Lee, who has done lots of work in Asia - including several music video shoots - so he knows his way around a lot of the places we are going.
I had a scare recently with Visa problems - the lack of one to be precise! I obtained my Chinese visa fairly easily via a trip to London, but did not have time to get my Vietnamese visa the same day. I sent off for it by post, and then came the major post strike! So I was on tender hooks the last few days hoping my passport would come back in time. Thankfully I got it last weekend. If that is the only panic I have during this trip, all will be well.
The first leg of my jouney will be mainland China. I will be flying into Beijing and getting a train down to Hong Kong through Shanghai.
PHIL WYATT
Cambridge, UK.
18th October 2007
NEXT TIME:
ARRIVING IN CHINA
DOING THE TOURISTY STUFF
6 comments:
Who are those two way hot guys next to you?
I don't know them. They were just in the queue.
You could have gotten their numbers for me..
Yeah. I was going to but I think they were Triads...
What a pity...
Oh well, I suppose I'll just stick with you then.
But that is a really good pic of you, why don't you crop it and put it on Myspace?
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