What is it like to live your dream? Mine was travelling, for a year, with a backpack, living simply and experiencing culturally. Those moments that remind you consciously and may seem bizarre or surreal that you are actually there, seeing what you see, doing what you do and being who you want to be and now …
Category: Thailand
Historical Travel
History unveils itself as you travel. If you get to know tourist sites, local people (even as a tourist) then you can find out and gain real insights into the places you travel to - or the people in the places! In each country I visited I found this. Sometimes natural history, sometimes political. Nowhere …
Slow Boat to Laos on the Mekong
From Chiang Mai in Thailand, in the north where local people summer as it's cooler (really??!?!) I then travelled into Laos from there, along the Mekong river for two days and into the cities. A Slow boat to Laos … China is the other way if you've heard of a film "Slow boat to …
Bridge over the River Kwai
Sitting on the train after Kwai crossing and WangPho viaduct on Friday 14th August 2015 on my way to Bangkok, then Chiang Mai tomorrow. This latest trip offered history with beautiful views...if scary with open doors on the train to a drop along the Wang Po viaduct built by PoW in WWII! It now …
Travelling isn’t all fun..
15.8.15 Bangkok Oldtown A difficult day today after a noisy, cold night (yes, cold!). The Oldtown Hostel I booked online through Booking.com was different to my first experienced at Hua Hin with shared dorm ok but shared showers/toilets for a floor. And mine was at the other end of corridor! Looking good at Hua Hin …
Koh Pha’ngan/Full Moon Party!
Joe from Co Down, who says he's average when we were talking and he said his friend had commented 'there seem to be no fat travellers' as most are thin, attractive if not stunning!! (Then there are exceptions like me...! He looked awkward! :o) But he was nice, attractive as the Irish are! Red haired almost, pale skinned, he …
The Path of Least Resistance
Something I'm learning from Asia, take the easier route if it comes to choices. That's not say don't chose but sometimes you may be like me and go for the choice that is 'right' in a social sense, or win for all. But this doesn't always benefit me in the end, although I don't lose …
Unfolding secret histories!
Today, 6th July 2016, almost a year on from starting my years travel, I met up with a friend Ray and his wife Khammah, who I stayed with in Ubon Ratchathani last September. When I visited them in Khamma's village where they live and have a house (Ray spends some time here in the UK …
Air Con Asia
What is Asia's obsession with air con??? Yes, Westerners might struggle with the heat and humidity but at night, sleeping or on trains not moving much, it gets freezing!!! I have experienced this daily now for months!! I , like ,any others in dorms, struggled with icy cold air con, either one setting or changed …
Scenic Railways
Riding through green rice field lowlands from Hanoi to Hue, edged on the horizon or nearer at time by mountain karstes. At Hue Apparently there are historical sights to see, Lots of tourists got off at Nimh Binh, less touristy than Ha Long Bay below. Unable to really capture the amazing scenes of Ha Long …
