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We’ve taken a lot of pictures since February the 4th. Some good, most unspectacular, and a few worth having a look at. Click here to see the top 49.

The truly interesting part of our trip has come to an end, and we’re on a kind of backpacker hiatus in Sydney. Still, SFTGE has had its fair share of readers. Click here to find out how you arrived.

Five months, 15,000 miles, and over 6,000 photos. One fake driving license and a multitude of cockroaches. Countless trains, buses and boats. We must have learned something. Click here to find out what.

We cover the last few hundred miles of our trip to south-east Asia in a few days, stopping in Yogyakarta and, via train, Jakarta. We tried to breath through our mouths the whole time. Click here to find out why.

We get away from the hassle of Bali and Lombok and head to one of Indonesia’s various active volcanoes. Find out if we fell in/drowned in lava/got hit in the head by falling volcanic rocks by clicking here.

We leave Bali behind and head to Java, Indonesia’s most populated island. We enjoy another contender for “worst bus journey ever”, and get, in the most non-violent and slightly-our-fault kind-of-way, robbed. Click here to read all about it.

I stood in knee-high waves for hours before I took a good picture of a surfer. If you’re heading to a beach this weekend, learn from my mistakes by clicking here.

Our hotel in Kuta was lovely. The pool was deep blue, clean and refreshing. Our room was large and shady, and the New Yorker installed next to us was surfing his way around the world.
Oh, and there was a scorpion in the bathroom.
When we left London, I was afraid of anything with more legs and [...]

We leave Senggigi and get ourselves some wheels. Worn down wheels with defective lights, yes, but wheels nonetheless. See how we fared in the world’s worst rental car by clicking here.

We get out of Bali and head to Lombok, 25km away and across the ocean. We visit the world’s least-seaworthy ferry and reach the end of our tethers with the touts. Click here to see why a little cynicism can be a good thing.