Sunday, August 1, 2010

Travel by numbers.

Six months =
  • 16 countries (Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, China, Mongolia, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Sweden, Germany, Spain, France, England, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro)
  • 11 capital cities (Jakarta, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Ulaanbaatar, Moscow, Riga, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid, London)
  • 8 modes of transport (Plane, bus, train, ferry, car, boat, bike, camel, horse)
  • 6 flights
  • 3 overnight bus trips
  • 1 scary Siberian passport controller
  • 2 hotels (Jakarta, Berlin)
  • 2 couch surfers (Tomsk, Sigulda)
  • 1 bout of Siberian flu
  • 2 bouts of diarrhea (Phill)
  • 4 seasons of How I Met Your Mother (in three days in Hamburg)
  • 0 trains/busses/flights/ferries/horses missed
  • 2 bunk beds fell out of (Phill)
  • 1 very scared backpacker (when Phill fell on her in the middle of the night)
  • 3 bottles of shampoo
  • 2 bottles of body moisturiser
  • 2 bottles of face moisturiser
  • 4 tubes of toothpaste
  • 2 toothbrushes
  • 1 credit card taken by ATM
  • 1 sarong lost...by Kate
  • 1 pair of sunnies stolen
  • 1 pair of sunnies drunkenly smashed
  • 0 haircuts
  • 0 beard trims
  • 6 animals kicked (frog, pigeon, cat, horse, camel, fish...all by Phill. Who kicks a frog???)
  • 1 time confused for brother and sister
  • 1 old housemate run into in Croatia
  • 1 TV interview (tourism TV Thailand, you're welcome)
  • 3 fines (jay walking in KL, no train ticket in Berlin, Phill 'not realising' he had a butterfly knife in his carry on bag flying out of Germany...dick.)
  • 3 times Phill has called home
  • 2 birthdays
  • 1 ballet performance (St Petersburg, Russia)
  • 1 Westend show (Les Mis)
  • 1 ping pong show (Phuket)
  • 1 Jonas brother seen in real life
  • 1 fire fought (Pamplona grass fire...we were all over it)
  • 23,392 kms travelled in Asia...still adding up the rest. That's Brisbane to St Petersburg.
  • 13,032 kms travelled by land
  • 0 nights spent apart (yes, we both agree that's lame)

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