Kevin O’Faircheallaigh is 28 and in 2009 decided to abandon all domestic commitments and to have one last big adventure before the impending doom of 30. With that in mind, he and his partner packed an ambitiously small backpack each and headed out to spend a year exploring Asia and Europe, with a brief sojourn into North Africa.
October 18, 2010 – 5:41 pm
If you’re anything like me (and may God forgive you if you are), you’ll spend at least part of your holiday reading current affairs magazines. Not so much from a need to keep up to date with the goings on of the world, as a certain amount of nosiness that demands you get up in [...]
September 16, 2010 – 4:36 pm
I know a guy who insists that the only way to truly experience a country is to organise yourself a home stay. He feels that it’s home stays alone that enable us to understand how the average citizen of any particular country lives, and anything else is really just shallow surface tourism. I think we can all agree that this idea is unadulterated horseshit.
September 3, 2010 – 5:13 pm
In this, the latest in a series I’ve been calling “In defense of hugely intrusive government regulation in order to eradicate behaviours in others that I find annoying”, I’m going to explain why I feel that in order to purchase and operate a camera people should be forced to obtain a license.
I once went to Sydney for a weekend with four male friends. We arrived around midday with tickets to a football double header that evening and an eye to heading out afterwards. Casually flicking through the TV channels, waiting for everyone to be ready, something unforseen happened. Somehow we landed on The World’s Strongest Man [...]
I have decided to develop a grand unifying theory of Asia. It’ll be easy, right?
Being a pedestrian in South East Asia is marginally less exciting than a werewolf in London I must confess, but I can assure you it’s probably far more likely to result in death.
Now it would be remiss of me to suggest that only foreign travelers are wankers. In fact, if I’ve learned nothing else from travel it’s that wankerism is a worldwide problem in need of a worldwide solution. Like global warming. Or hipsters.
Shanghai has been one of the destinations I’ve been most looking forward to on our Asia itinerary. That is, until I arrived and underwent public humiliation over a flowery toiletry bag.
After a horrific 10 hour bus trip in Laos with bandanna wearing Europeans who take up every inch of spare space, Kevin O’Faircheallaigh lets rip at those who put their seats back.
Lots of people try to claim that travel will “make or break” a relationship. Rubbish, says Kevin O’Faircheallaign, it does brings out fun couple games, like Passive Aggressive Book Club.
