Trang to Bangkok by Bus
828 km and thirteen hours overnight by double-decker bus from Trang to Bangkok, after Chinese New Year sold out every sleeper train for weeks.
Tagged “Sea Travel”
Wind Powered Cargo Ships and Arriving in Malaysia
Off the AS Carelia at Port Klang in the early hours of 6 January, a US$300 port-agent bill, then the one-hour Komuter train into Kuala Lumpur.
Tropical Storms and Piracy Warnings
A piracy warning faxed to the bridge off East Timor, a tropical storm in the Timor Sea, and the run down the Malacca Strait towards Port Klang.
A Rock n' Roll Christmas (of the non-musical variety)
Christmas aboard the AS Carelia: dinner on Christmas Eve in the crew's mess, then gale-force winds off the Whitsundays that threw us out of bed.
New Zealand
Auckland and Tauranga aboard a container ship: 24 hours in port, twenty crew, meals with the officers, and the Rena's oil still on the rocks.
The AS Carelia: A Freight Adventure
Boarding a container ship at Brisbane for 6,800 nautical miles to Malaysia — then the only vessel taking passengers from Australia to South East Asia.
Life at Sea
What 23 days on the Pacific is actually like: the equator, the International Date Line, six time-zone changes and a fortnight chasing flying fish.