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Asian Occasion is the 3rd blog in the series since our open-ended nomadic travels began in November 2009. This time, we are off to Asia, backpacker style. We have lived, worked and traveled in Asia often over the past 20 years and this marks our return to ...

... dribble. Then everything was normal again in the plop department, and my next turd the following day was a textbook log. Seriously weird sh*t. I took a deep breath and went into the kitchen to make my first ever mince and pasta meal, chucking in the rest ...

... I walked ınto the offıce and the second tıme I went back I must have saıd yarın (tomorrow ın turkısh)many tımes. They basıcally keep gesturıng ıts ok even though I poınted to the date (they spoke ...

... (still sleepless) journey back to Canberra. It was Australia day, and so there were no more buses to Echuca until tomorrow. SH*T! I was stumped, and really struggling to find a reason to keep my head up. I felt stupid for ...

... sıdewalks, men comıng around the corner wıth trays of tea, learnıng how to ınterpret broken Englısh (ıe "Now rub, ago water" means "Fırst sweep, after mop"  - yea Im gettıng pretty good)...thıs ...

... . Christopher quickly ran to the sewer hole but not before some of the poopy had spilled out. Christohper exclaimed, “OH SH*T!” Having successfully drained the poopage from the Bick RV, Christine had the lovely idea of tackling the DeGeeter ...

... varried but always with an in'sh'Allah (God willing) at the end. "Four hours, in'sh'Allah!" they said. "Maybe six, in'sh'Allah, or tomorrow in'sha'Allah!" This of course came as shock to those of us from countries where there are such things as sand ...

... and hot peppers so we were able to get through most of ıt. Fortunately we subsequently dıscovered Iskender. Thıs ıs a dısh of thın slıces of roast lamb served on a thıck pıta wıth a rıch tomatoe ...

... my ears. The epıc day fınally ended when  I arrıved ın Lulebergaz. My fırst Turkısh couchsurfer and he was awesome. Ibrahim a a mechanical engineer has just had a row with hıs ...

One of the biggest frustrations so far has been ´what we are calling the ¨saga of spit and sh*t...¨ I still have nightmares about the spitting back when I was in China and it may be worse here! This is done without regard for age or gender...people of ...

... 305;ng minerets, walkıng through the covered bazaars sampling delıcıous turkish delıght. as we wanted a turkısh expereınce we decıded to get an authentıc turkish bath. enjoyable would not exactly be how ıd ...

... few questions to enter and exit.   Very soon afterwards we saw the sign for Beit She'an and exited to find the Beit Sh'an Archelogical site.   This site was as amazing as I had heard.   It was extremely hot so we spent about ...

... was great doing all the body surfing and wave jumping again. Managed to get sand in every crevice including obtaining a bit of a gritty sh*tter! We ended up spending over 4 hours here before grabbing some late lunch and going for a walk down Leblon. ...

... . nice. apparently guys next door had blocked the drains. they moved us to a new room quick smart but as the title says, "sh*ttiest" hotel ever! We leave in the morning so hopefully the only way is up from here! Hopefully the pictures tell you the rest of ...

... then rowed to the mainland - we didn't have the motor this time. Basically, we spent about 2 hours there, went on some sh*t boats, bought expensive beer, got bitten by mosquitoes on the walk over the island, saw no turtles or surfing and generally ...