2012: My Year in Review
As a physicist, I tend to try and analyse, well, every single aspect of my life and my travels are no different. At the end of each year I find myself yearning to write a series of thirty posts rounding up the past 12 months – my travels in photos, my travels by numbers, my top incidents of 2012, my favourite places of 2012, my least favourite places… So with that in mind, I’ve decided to try and cram all of these individual ideas into one jumbo post of summarising madness. For each month, I’ve included a brief summary of what I got up to with untold incidents and adventures and I’ve ended with statistics of the countries visited, how far I travelled and the amount I spent. Hopefully you’ll find the information helpful and the stories entertaining! January 2012 began for me at home in Chiang Mai. I spent my New Years Eve in a Pink Floyd bar with drinking a cocktail called David Gilmore (incorrectly spelt, much to my displeasure…) where I was...