Ben Groundwater

Book launch!

April 13, 2010 · 8 comments

So, it’s been a while since I last posted. A loooooong while.

There have been various things going on – a redesign of my site, due to go live in the next few weeks; actual paid work – but the most exciting of those is definitely the impending launch of my first book, 5 Ways to Carry a Goat.

It’s a travel memoir, for those of you new to the game, in which I travel around the world relying purely on the kindness of the readers of my SMH blog, The Backpacker. As you’d expect, things got a little strange.
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Damn you Ikea

February 2, 2010

I went travelling the other day. To Rhodes, in Western Sydney. Nothing too exotic, although it felt like a long way, mostly thanks to Sydney’s incredibly craptacular public transport system and my lack of a car.
Anyway, I wasn’t going to Rhodes to relax – I was going to experience the very grown-up nightmare that is [...]

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Lazy? Kinda.

January 20, 2010

All right, I admit it – I haven’t been soooo busy that I just haven’t had time to post an update on the blog. I have been stuck working the boring normal jobs you have to do to pay the bills if you want to be a travel writer, but that’s par for the course.
Really, [...]

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Not a holiday

November 23, 2009

When is a holiday not a holiday? When you have to work during it.
I’m in Laos at the moment, have been for the last few weeks, hanging out with my girlfriend and a couple of other friends, but in between all the Beerlao drinking and temple-going (not it that order), I’ve also had a little [...]

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