Ben's Asia Adventure - The Last Chapter.

Here I am on Sunday the 10th, the day before I come back to Brighton and reality is due to come crashing down on me like a ton of bad tempered bricks. I may continue to keep a blog but as my trip is long done I thought I would bring Ben's Asia Adventure to a close and start afresh with another blog some other time, should I feel the inclination.

Well, it's been fun but now it's all over and back to reality.
Back to the reality of getting up on cold dark mornings to go to crap, badly paid jobs to work with people I don't much like.
Back to the reality of absurdly over-priced dank accommodation, council tax bills and Reality T.V.
Back to chavs vomiting in the streets, litter and surly shopkeepers.
Back to trudging through life on a polluted, war-torn planet that's rapidly consuming all it's resources and spiralling inexorably towards it's own destruction.

Just to end on an upbeat note.

I guess the question must be asked, have I learned anything on my travels?
Has the time away and a different perspective helped me realise anything fundamental?

Well, I would say that I have come away from the whole experience with three cast-iron, undeniable truths.

1.Daniel Craig was very very good in Casino Royale.

2.I really hate dogs and chickens.

3.Yes Virginia by the Dresden Dolls is the best album ever.

"And even as the skin rips off
I cherish the revolting thought
That even if I quit...
There's not a chance in hell I'd stop!"

Wise words for us all there.
Oh hang on, that's from a song on their first album, not Yes Virginia.

Oh fuck it.