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10 LESSONS FROM TWO WEEKS IN ASIA + AUSTRALIA

Gareth Emery

Fri, 03 May 2024

10 LESSONS FROM TWO WEEKS IN ASIA + AUSTRALIA

1. Durian lives up to the hype. It’s everything you’ve heard and worse 🤮

2. Australian coffee is very good and perhaps too strong

3. Drunk people when you’re sober aren’t the one.

4. Renting bikes is better than taking Ubers.

5. Peking Duck is Beijing is a core memory.

6. Langkawi Island in Malaysia has amazing sunsets and delightfully unsafe jetskiing.

7. Google Translate in China is consistently hilarious and occasionally useful.

8. Standing upon a surfboard is possible even for the terminally unsporting (on attempt #4)

9. Cook it, peel it, or leave it.

10. There are two types of luggage: hand luggage and lost luggage.

11. If the hotel breakfast ends in five minutes, sprinting is entirely worth it.

12. @lsrcity would crush in Australia and Asia. Maybe we’ll make this happen next year.

It’s been fortnight filled with new experiences. Time to close out at @vacfestival China tomorrow then home for some much needed time off ❤️✈️

#garethemery