James' Travel Pages – Page 10 – Travel Blog, Opinions and Other Random Things

by james - 3rd September 200813th March 2020

James’ Ultimate Travel Blogging Kit

Laptop with 160Gb MP3/Wireless/DVD/Phone/3.2MP Camera.

I was wondering what Mark Beaumont, the guy who cycled round the world, used when travelling and this is my equivalent. I’ve been using the Asus for a few months now, first went to Paris with it and it’s fantastic. The whole kit only weighs about 2kg, packs very small and is perfect for backpack travelling!

For The Geeks Out There :

Asus 4Gb EEE PC (+webcam) mini-laptop – used for wireless/Firefox/Skype/MSN/MS Office
Freecom XXS 160Gb USB drive – this thing is tiny!
Sony Ericsson k800i + 2Gb card
Trust USB mouse – nicer than the touchpad
Holux GPS + MSI Bluetooth dongle – case you get lost
Quality Sony Headphones

by james - 18th July 200813th March 2020

Top Tens And Stuff

Must get round to writing something here sometime…

by james - 17th July 200813th March 2020

Artwork Inspired By The Wimbledon 2008 Final

I could help but be inspired by the fantastic Wimbledon 2008 final. Federer played amazingly well, so did Nadal. In fact I was so inspired by it all, I decided to get creative and design some artwork as a tribute.
Click here or below to enjoy it. Heheh!

by james - 12th July 200820th March 2020

Travel Guides I Used

These are the travel guides I used on my travels during 2004 and 2005, I was pretty lucky with them to be honest. The 2003 Lonely Planet Australia was awful compared to my one! 😀

by james - 12th July 200820th March 2020

Books I’ve Read

These are the various books I’ve read whilst on my travels during 2004 and 2005. I’ve listed them in the order I read them or at least the order I think I read them in and also where I got them and my thoughts about them, as best my memory can recall.

Considering I got most of them second hand, they were surprisingly good.

If you are somewhat puzzled by my selection it may help to know that as a kid I never read any fiction books(it was a hard life), in fact I was told off at school because I hadn’t read anything in an entire term once! This meant I missed just about all the classics. So a few years ago I decided I really should start reading some of them and hence some of the choices below.

by james - 9th July 200813th March 2020

Gallery Page

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These are my gallery pages.

Becky's Party Dec 2008

Becky's 50th Birthday Party at Wilton, December 2008

45 Photos

My Birthday 2008

My birthday night out with tennis club friends at the Bayee Village Chinese restaurant in Wimbledon Village.

16 Photos

Egypt 2008

My tour of Egypt 2008 - Cairo, Alexandria, Marsa Matrouh, Aswan, Nile Cruise, Luxor, Karnak, Port Said, Suez Canal and Mount Sinai.

54 Photos

Tennis Gallery

The Tennis Gallery

32 Photos

Pics Of Me In Various Places & How I Used To Look

Pics Of Me Around The World from 2003 - present day.

34 Photos

Oz Phone Photos

Pics taken in Oz 2004 with my beloved Nokia 3650 - one of the first camera phones.

61 Photos

Tasmania Pics

Tasmania Pics - Feb 2004 - Taken with my Nokia 3650, some during my infamous 10 day Overland hike - probably my favourite thing I did travelling, despite that woman falling off a cliff and me losing my digicam into the waterfall there!

17 Photos

New Zealand 2004