- Countries visited: Six - France, Nepal, Tibet/China, Japan, New Zealand, Australia
- Countries visited with mountains: Six (says something about my interests)
- Aussie states visited: Three - New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland
- Flights taken: too many, feel a bit guilty about that
- Favoured airline: Qatar Airways - for having nice staff and for upgrading me on the way back from Kathmandu
- Pentagonites visited: Ten - Aziza, Colette, Toni, Caroline, Margs, Tim, Dee, Sooze and honoraries Damien, Simone and (lived in the Pentagon for one month each)
- People seen who I've lived with: 12! - Aziza, Colette, Juliet, James, Toni, Caroline, Margs, Tim, Dee, Sooze, Damien, Simone
- School friends visited: One - Rosie in Japan
- Pentagon birthdays present for: Four (Aziza, Dee, Margs, Toni)
- Bands seen beginning with K: Two, The Klaxons and The Killers
- Crazy dances danced: many
- Nights spent in the gutter in the rain: one... I blame Caroline ;-)
- Countries where showered under a waterfall: two - Nepal and New Zealand
- Countries swam in: four Nepal, Japan, New Zealand, Australia
- Aussie barbies eaten: two, both expertly cooked by Aussie men. Three including brekkers!
- Kit Kat varieties sampled: infinite amounts, including green tea, kiwi fruit and melon
- Cupcakes eaten: seven thousand six hundred and eighty five. Or at least it feels like it
- Shoes broken: one, sliding down a hill on a piece of card with Colette and Aziza
- Shoes gained: errr, several pairs - one for free from Caroline (thanks!) one for $9.50 in NZ and one for the Melbourne Cup, half price navy blue boots - gotta be savvy about these things!
- Items lost: so many it's ridiculous - ring, penknife, clothing... the list goes on but it's just too upsetting to write it
- Favourite food: Japanese - though best meal goes to Botswana Butchery in Wanaka - thanks JJ!
- Favourite venue: The Espy, Melbourne
- Favourite weather: Australia...despite some dodgy English-like days!
- Favourite mountains: sorry, but it has to be the Himalayas
- Worst hangover: very tough call between post crazy Melbourne night, post host bar night and post Auckland night out. Post host bar night wins! Dodgy green local brew is to blame
- Worst mosquito bites: tough call, but would have to plump for Nepal and the time those little buggers bit my face
- Worst travel illness: Tibetan donkey flu - I still don't think my lungs have recovered
- Worst local drink: Raksi, which tastes similar to meths. Not that I generally drink meths you understand
- Highest point visited: Somewhere high up on the Tibetan plateau - 5200 metres
- Strangest place slept: on the floor in a cramped smoke-filled room on grass mats which I was allergic too, next to three other volunteers and the most corn I've ever seen.
- Strangest place drank: in a club in a subway station in Japan or with locals in a remote village in the Kathmandu valley
- Strangest place eaten: in a local momo store in the back streets of Lhasa, Tibet, with all the local ladies gawping at me
- Biggest culture shock: arriving in Nepal and driving through the streets to my guest house. I'd never seen so much poverty at close hand before
- Hardest battle: trekking in the Himalayas - or persuading 45 enthusiastic Nepalese ten year olds to be quiet
- Biggest challenge: persuading myself to keep going after six weeks in Nepal. I was sick of the disorganisation, sick of the food and lack of comfort and generally sick. But I kept going!
- Most attractive city: Sydney
- Most awkward moment: being publicly told off for dropping two grains of rice on a table in Pokhara, Nepal
- Most cultural conflict: Tibet
- Most polite people: Japan
- Most friendly (and nosy!) people: Nepal
- Most laid back people: New Zealand
- Most boozy nation: Oz?!
- Most bizarre food; crazy massaged meat in Japan? Looks very bad for you but tastes so good!
- Smartest car: Toni
- Most dilapidated car: Juliet and Ian
- Best skier: Ian...closely followed by my little sister, dammit
- Biggest cupcake tease: Caroline
- Most jammy: Sooze, for swinging corporate tickets to the Melbourne Cup, closely followed by Aziza, for managing to get paid while taking time off, having a company car and getting petrol paid for too!
- Most generous: everyone! Thanks so much - I would never have been able to do the Friendship Tour without you guys!
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