Monday 22 June 2009

In the beginning it was absurd

And the word was:
ASIA



There wasn't a shortage of words, but when you start a dictionary at page 1 - you can't take much more than 50 pages. So here I am. In Korea, facing westward with one motherfucker of a continent between me and the places to which I am most genetically tied. Destination:

A Fine City,
Nelson's County
(Norwich, Norfolk)


"Why not just take a plane?" I hear you cry rhetorically. Well of course that wouldn't be any fun would it now! So I'll be taking a multitude of modus vectura from Korea to a number of countries, mainly in Asia.

We leave tomorrow evening, and with any luck we'll be catching a Flight to Shanghai.
- Here I would like to introduce the Chinese half of the royal 'we' - I'll be travelling with my girlfriend of 10 months and most of my stay in Korea, LuLu. Some people might know her as Michelle or 鹿鹿 but to me, 他是我的宝贝.

We are trying to get to JiangJiaJie (蒋家介, Hunan Province) but there is currently some trouble with out flights - so we don't know where we are staying tomorrow night...

GoogleMaps


A great path lay behind us in Korea... Ten of the best months of my life and the best friends that made it so. But a great path lay ahead of us...

Lulu and me will be almost indefinitely parting ways as she goes to Beijing and continue in South-Western China and then to Vietnam where
I meet 'Mon Pote', Hugo, we travel from Vietnam through Cambodia to Thailand and then Southwards still to Malaysia where we part ways and I fly to Japan where
I meet Thomas David Crosby Esq. We will be travelling in Japan then taking the Trans-Siberian Railway from Beijing to Helsinki, transiting Mongolia and Russia.
Then we take the most direct, skyward path back to the UK.