Sleeper trains, they're great, but can be hard work. But if I'm honest, while I may have had trouble actually sleeping on them in the past, the effort was worth it, as there's nothing quite like waking up and watching the sunrise from a locomotive racing through an incredible landscape. A learned a trick a [...]
#WePrintMemories So so many photos! In fact I backed up my photos last night owing to my Macbook playing silly buggers and not booting up at the first 7 attempts (lucky number 8), and there were over 15,000 files to copy over to my portable hard drive. 15,000! That seems an utterly crazy [...]
Not bad for an office bod. Despite spending a large portion of my year sitting at a desk in a freezing cold west London office block, travel over the past 12 months has been good. Very good in fact! At the risk of sounding a little like a Dbag, here's a few travel numbers I [...]
I've never really liked heights, but seeing Vang Vieng at sunrise was worth the struggle with my fear. It's a strange one really considering that I'm OK flying, will quite happily throw myself out of a perfectly good plane, or dive off a bridge with no more than a glorified elastic band wrapped around my [...]
Bangkok to Vientiane by train, how does that work then? Taking the train(s) from Bangkok to Vientiane was one of my favourite experiences from my mini tour of Laos and Cambodia. It was pretty much the first thing I did on said tour, stepping off the plane and almost straight into our little cabin that [...]
Tubing in Vang Vieng, is it all done and dusted with? Once the perennial South East Asian backpacker piss up party town, it was THE place to sit in an old decrepit rubber ring, float down a beautiful river of which you will take little notice, use you mates faces as a canvas for your new found love of fluorescent art, drink beer [...]
Its safe to say that our stay in Luang Prabang didn't get off to the best of starts. Fresh off the bus from Vang Vieng, we were almost immediately introduced to Songkran as a huge gush of water flew into our tuk tuk and destroyed our map. We then contrived to walk 2km in the wrong direction in search of our [...]
Blink and we might have missed it, but blink we did not and lurking between two restaurants showing endless re-runs of Friends we found the Chaleun Garden Guesthouse, a budget travelers dream. Staying at Chaleun Garden Basic but not without a small amount of charm, the Chaleun Garden Guesthouse was to be our base for 3 fun packed nights in Vang [...]
Laos and Cambodia, two totally awesome countries! Encase this is your first visit to my blog, or if you just haven't passed through in a while, you might not be aware that I recently spent the best part of a month exploring both Laos and Cambodia with my better half. It was a whirlwind trip which involved [...]
After 12 hour flight, a 16 hour overnight train and a slightly backwards border crossing it was nice (understatement) to finally reach the first hostel of our 3 week SE Asia tour - Vientiane Backpackers. Vientiane Backpackers Hostel is bright and vibrant. Make you way through/over the mountain of flip flops that swamp the front step and [...]
