Well everyone is back from their project recces and it’s great to see them all excited about their destinations for the next 10 weeks or so. Many have came back leeched, especially the boys from Danum Valley which is where I’m based for 5 days in around 6 weeks time. On the flip side they […]
Well the tables may be turned on me soon…a few of us have been invited to attend a Sabah Tourism photo shoot to potentially be models for posters to be distributed in tourism brochures around Asia!! Better put on my best clothes…. bit of a long blog entry tonight…Anyway, it’s all turned very busy in […]
My flat is rented!!!!!!!! Yaaaaaah. Yup, no more flat renting worries from today as a deposit is down, and I don’t have to keep comparing my mortgage payments to the number of ‘weeks in Asia’ it costs me!After a hectic time post jungle camp, all project managers are now out on project recce’s double checking […]
Maybe I’m saying too much about the Raleigh International programme on this blog, but I hope it may be of help to some people considering attending, or volunteering for a staff role.The blog’s been a bit quiet as we have been away at an adventure centre on the Kiulu River having some jungle training. We […]
“Welcome to the jungleIt gets worse here everydayYa learn ta live like an animalIn the jungle where we playIf you got a hunger for what you seeYou’ll take it eventuallyYou can have anything you wantBut you better not take it from me” At least that’s how Guns ‘n’ Roses described it. After a day of […]
Well I arrived at Raleigh field base today, and to some more great people. The guys here have put in a sterling effort to get the place ready, in what has been described several times as one of Raleigh’s most palatial field bases! Despite this, it’s going to be a hot kip with a few […]
Just a quick last post before I get picked up from Raleigh for the start of the 3 months. Great crowd I’ve met so far. Unfortunately I was too late to get to one of the small islands offshore like Mamutik yesterday. Only 17 Ringgits to get there and back and it was a picture […]
How the bloody hell did I end up here? Only a few years ago I thought Borneo was the arse end of nowhere. Now I realise it’s huge. 5th (or is it 2nd?) biggest island in the world, and Kota Kinabalu is a similar size to friggin’ Edinburgh – 250,000 live here! Yes, sorry folks, […]
Well my 2nd day in Singapore didn’t amount to much as expected. By the time I had woken up for 2 hours again in the middle of the night, and counted 587 sheep before falling asleep again (just prior to ripping the throats of the girls talking on the stairs), I didn’t get up til […]
Cheesy shot of me, taken by some random punter.