CBC News – Nova Scotia – Italian tourists end up in wrong Sydney. An Italian couple ended up in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada rather than Sydney, NSW, Australia.  The incident reminded me of a story that my former boss told me.  He had to go to San Jose, California for work so, thinking he was [...]

Here are some funny signs I’ve seen so far. Japan The Japanese love to use cartoons in all their signs. Sometimes it seems inappropriate! China The best signs are definitely found in China. Instead of using a translator which are in abundance, they seem to use a dictionary and do a word for word transation. [...]

I took a night bus to Melbourne which was uncomfortable to say the least. The best night bus I’ve ever taken was in Peru. How can a developing country have better buses than Canada, Japan, Australia etc.? I arrived the weekend of the AFL (Aussie Footbal Rules League) final so almost every hostel was either [...]

I arrived in Australia exhausted from the near non-sleep I got at Christchurch airport. After checking into my hotel, I decided to go for a short walk which turned into a 5 hour walk. I first took the path set along the harbour which takes you to the Royal Botanic Garden, The Sydney Opera House [...]

Overall, I found the Kiwis to be affable and friendly. They often said hello when you walked past them on the street. They were also quick for a smile which I found disarming. I did, however, find the Kiwis to be overall simple-minded when it came to ethnicity and nationality. They seemingly had difficulty reconciling [...]