Hi again, Going from Luang Prabang to Bangkok was like super sizing your meal x100. There's still lots of temples and monks around, but they're covered in glitzier decorations. And the town is a huge international city. But the monks still go out in the morning to get their alms. And you can still get around on a river (the Chao Praya). We stayed at a great hotel, the Arun Residence, right on the riverbank, getting ferry rides right near the hotel. We spe...

Sabadie from Luang Prabang in Laos, where things are so very chilled. If you fly in, the airport is located in the middle of the new town, which, as with all of LP, is in a relatively small natural bowl created by a 360 degree sentry of steep, rainforest covered mountains. After a short drive you arrive in a natural paradise, an old town at the junction of two rivers, one of them the Mekong. The old town is on a peninsula which, like the rest of LP, is covered ...

Cambodia, land of even more rice paddies than Vietnam, of freakishly wet afternoons, of tuk tuks ploughing muddy potholed lanes, of beautiful countryside covered in rainforest, and of beautiful temples, enough to make even a super atheist cynic like Geoff feel a bit spiritual. For a moment. We loved Siem Reap and the temples of Angkor. The people were pretty cool too, even though they scored highly on the hassling factor at all the tourist haunts. That must be fo...

Hey there. Many moons ago, at Uni, Geoff studied travel literature. That travel writing course, subtitled 'zones of the imagination', began by questioning the purpose of travel. What is the point of hurtling yourself into foreign climes? A Homeric lust for odyssey? A nomadic love of wandering? The reasons, as he recalls, were as many as the voyages. So, as we reach the halfway point in the trip, trading hotel for hotel, taxi for taxi, it seems appropria...

Hi again. For those who may've found our last post (about Japan) a tad rich to digest, this meal will be lighter fare. Korea was a blast but, after all the courtesy of Japan, it was a bit more like the world we're used to, with yelling and pushing and things we'd had a break from in the land of the rising sun. Nonetheless, Seoul was fun, and it was great to catch up with our friends Bee and Luna, and to get to know Bee's girlfriend Caitlin, while we were there....