Friday the 13th

After breakfast delivered to my room which is nice, I went to the roof for a coffee with Dan who is feeling the same way I am and after a long chat I have come to a decision.

Nice 360 degrees rooftop view.

And the garden outside my room.

My regular readers may have noticed a “tone” in my writing over the last few days – weeks. After much consideration I have decided that I have gained the insight, “enlightenment” I have been looking for about my life from my journey to the east and I am ready to return back to Australia. 

I called Qantas and basically my choices of available flights home are next Tuesday, as the rest of January is booked out or wait until mid February so impulsively……it is maybe sooner than I expected or wanted, but I will be flying back to Australia next week. 


This has come quite suddenly and as I said maybe a bit sooner than expected but it is the next step for me. I have mixed feelings about it, maybe I should have put in more effort but I know I don’t want to live here, it is of course entirely different to being on holiday and with my limited qualifications and experience I would only end up scraping through and whittling down my savings. On the other hand, I have answered the questions I came looking for so I feel good about that.

It is TET next week, Chinese New Year, it is a huge celebration and a ten day holiday so basically there is no work for the next fortnight. I have seen Thailand, Cambodia and Laos and don’t want to just revisit the same places so I just wouldn’t know what to do with myself.

So I wander over to the Qantas office, get my new ticket and go for a massage to forget about it all for a while. 


Back to my room for a shower and then out to dinner where I see a couple of people I know and have a catch up over a few beers before retiring for the day and see how I feel tomorrow.