by Ian Ferris | Jan 16, 2018
Monday @ Manly A guy gets on our bus dressed in singlet, shorts, thongs, dreadlocks, shades, Beats headphones and carrying a full-sized surfboard. Where am I?California. Or maybe Bali. But the rest of the bus is full of Australians so probably Sydney then. We got on...
by Ian Ferris | Jan 9, 2018
We’ve had a lovely time since we arrived in Sydney on Sunday. It’s been too hot, with Sunday’s searing 47 degree daytime heat in parts of the city and then a hot night we were tired on Monday. Then on Monday night we had thunderstorms almost every hour which...
by Ian Ferris | Dec 31, 2017
A Thousand Years in 10 Days We have never witnessed poverty like we’re seeing across Myanmar. Ladies washing the family clothes and themselves whilst fully dressed in the river, cooking dinner over an open fire and relying on those huge bundles of clothes that arrive...
by Ian Ferris | Dec 30, 2017
A thousand years in 10 days Over the last couple of days our very lovely Ngapali resort has been filling up with New Year guests, mainly, it seems, little round Koreans. No, not that little round Korean…wait, one of them is wearing funny round...
by Ian Ferris | Dec 30, 2017
Ngapoli, Bay of Bengal, Christmas Day 2017 Myanmar, or Burma, if you prefer. What a country! This is, without any doubt, the most amazing, friendly and truly extraordinary country we have ever visited. Each day of our short tour of Myanmar / Burma shows us another...
