Paul's Oriental Travelogue

The S-Factor

Here's an idea for a new metric in this hurly-burly world of ours. The Starbucks Factor The Starbucks Factor is a measure of how many times, in a given locality, on a given route, you can pass additional franchises of...
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You're very pretty for a foreigner

Everyone travelling abroad can use a good, concise phrasebook....
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Stateless

I'm finding it hard to get motivated to write anything here. Maybe it's because Australia just isn't strange enough. In Asia there was always some new oddity or near disaster that needed reporting. Melbourne's a great town but walking down...
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The Dream is Dead

All these months, in the back of my mind I toyed with the idea of taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad back to the west. That sort of madness is exactly what's called for. But I put off major investigation until now...
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Marvellous Melbourne

I'm proud to report my brazen plan for the weekend's travels went off without a hitch. So now I'm in Melbourne and I find that a bit daunting. It's like I'm at the summit of my voyage. Of all the...
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Uluru

Within artillery range of Uluru you click at a camera's shutter release like a retiree at the Vegas slots. I took 270 pictures in three days. The very much fewer and better ones I present to you here. There are...
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Dutch Treat

Marjolijn has an entirely different way of documenting the Uluru trip than I. http://www.dutchie.nl.eu.org/australasia/australia/mulgas.html And who can say which is best? Actually her picture-heavy, breathless narrative beats my tired, obligatory rambling by miles....
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