Archive for the 'Preparations' Category

A Snails Life

25May07

The flights are booked, the route (somewhat) planned and your intentions of abandoning loved ones has been widely broadcast. This is about the time that the pressing concern of that magical word “Gear” begins to raise it’s head. You stand in front of your backpack; an indubitable requirement, it having even lent it’s name to [...]


It’s just a few days over a month until we are jetting off, so what’s the current situation? Well we got the last of our injections and all our gear. It would be very useful if we got our Chinese Visa before we go, hopefully we can get that set on our next days off. [...]


Indian Visa

20Nov06

Had lots of fun getting lost again trying to find our way back to the Indian embassy. It was lovely and freezing, and due to a serious lack of time (and sense of direction) we had to sprint the whole way! They made a nice balls of the dates on the Visas, but luckily [...]


Equipment

13Oct06

For a start i did a bit of stocking up on Lonely Planet guides. These books are a pretty essential part of our kit as far as i’m concerned, saved my ass when i was interrailing a few years ago. So i picked up firstly the ‘golden bible’, which is of course Southeast Asia on [...]


Welcome to the blog of the two legends, Barry Judge McCormack and Paul Redmond.
Our Asian travel is commencing on the 11th of Januray and will finish in early August approx