After a brief stop off at the island of Langkawi our first destination in Malaysia was Georgetown on Penang island. A former British trading post, Georgetown still has some interesting remnants of its colonial past as well as the bustle and Bollywood music of Little India and the shophouses of Chinatown. We spent an enjoyable [...]
Despite the grey skies with ominous looking clouds looming we decided to take a risk and head to the island of Ko Mook. At that stage anything seemed better than hanging around in Trang any longer! Ko Mook is one of the less developed islands in the Andaman sea. We had phoned ahead to book [...]
After leaving Kanchanburi we headed south for the much anticipated islands of Thailand. Our first stop was the coastal town of Krabi where we were to meet Geraint who would be holidaying with us for the next two weeks. I had somehow become confused with dates and we had a shock to find Geraint suddenly [...]
Sukhothai was not somewhere we had been particularly enthusiastic about visiting. After the temples of Angkor we thought we had seen enough ancient ruins to keep us entertained for a while. However we had some time to kill and Sukothai seemed like an obvious location to break up our journey south. On arrival we checked [...]
Chiang Mai did not really live up to our expectations. We were looking forward to a few days of wandering around the city and enjoying the cuisine for which Chaing Mai is renowned. We left feeling rather disappointed. Arriving into Chiang Mai was a real shock to the system after Kengtung. After being pretty much [...]
The long journey from Louang Namtha to Houayxai marked the end of our holiday with Hannah and Pete. On arrival at the town we had a disappointing final noodle soup then walked them to the river bank where we watched their boat cross the Mekong to Thailand. Back to just the two of us, we [...]
We arrived at Luang Namtha after a long and uncomfortable bus journey through some wonderful mountainous scenery. We were feeling tired, grubby and unrested after several nights at our ‘characterful’ Luang Probang guest house. We were therefore very pleasantly surprised to receive our belated wedding present from Hannah and Pete – three nights of living [...]
We arrived at our chosen hotel in Louang Phabang and were greeted by hysterical laughter from the builders who were in the early stages of reconstruction. Our next guest house could have done with a bit of work itself. The place certainly had character but I suspect it wasn’t really what Pete and Hannah had [...]
After five months with pretty much just each other for company we were really looking forward to spending some time with Hannah and Pete who had decided to take a two week holiday from work and, for some strange reason, spend it with us in Laos. We met them at Hualamphong station. After spending a [...]
We spent a few days in Cambodia’s capital city. Phnom Penh is a dusty, slightly chaotic but very likable city. Despite Matthew being unwell again with a dodgy gut we still managed to visit most of the major attractions. For one of the days we hired a tuk-tuk with driver and were chauffeured around all [...]
