Alive. Again.

Well it’s that magical time of every travel year where Greg has become over a month behind in his blog, sits down at the laptop to somehow describe a month of adventures and life on the road, drools all over the keyboard, then finally throws his hands up in surrender to the inevitable. The good [...]

Up a Wild River in Borneo

 I turned up in the tiny village of Sukau in East Sabah, Borneo not entirely sure what to expect. The village – which pretty much consists of one narrow road – was basically shut down for Ramadan.  So far, the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan has had little effect on my trip because the [...]

Big Trouble in Little Brunei

Click. I didn’t think anything of the harmless photograph taken of the busy street corner. A green sign with Arabic beneath advertised “Jalan Sultan” – the street name. Behind the sign was a Dairy Queen – the first and only one that I have ever seen in Asia. Dairy Queen is an ice cream / [...]

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