travel

Railey Beach

Thailand , travel
Railey Beach is treated like an island although it is joined to the mainland somewhere. It’s kind of separated in two; the west side was the typical, picture perfect postcard beach image and exactly...

Ao Nang

Thailand , travel
It was about a 3hour journey form the floating river huts to Ao Nang. I left Sam with the bags and went to find somewhere half decent and cheap to stay. I finally found...

Back to Bangkok

Thailand , travel
We were all dreading another overnight train after the last one was such a horrible experience that we hadn’t quite got over. We stocked up on beer to get us through the night, but...

My Birthday continued….Tubing

Laos , travel
‘Tubing’ is what Vang Vieng is famous for amongst backpackers. It basically involves hiring a rubber tube and floating down the river in it. There are bars along the side of the river and...

Vang Vieng

Laos , travel
It was my birthday while we were in Vang Vieng and we spent a few days here celebrating. Vang Vieng is like backpacker central in Laos. It where everybody goes to go tubing and...

Laos – Vientiane

Laos , travel
We had a 10 hour bus journey to Lak Xao which was where we crossed the border from Vietnam to Laos and the next day we travelled to Vientiane, the Capital city of Laos,...

Typhoon Katrina

travel , Vietnam
I was totally disorientated when I woke up the next day. The room was so hot and felt like it had no oxygen at all. I realised that I’ve probably never been anywhere for...

Rain, Rain go Away….

travel , Vietnam
As predicted the flood level had risen during the night and was about knee high in the morning. We were lucky that our hotel was further back from the river and there were a...

Heading to Hoi An

travel , Vietnam
We had the worst experience possible on our 2nd overnight train. It was from Nha Trang to Danang and we realised how spoilt we’d been with the previous VIP class train. The cabin wasn’t...

Ho Chi Minh City

travel , Vietnam
The next day we headed to Ho Chi Minh City. The streets here were absolutely crazy. There are about 2.5 million motor bikes just in the city and they fill the streets like a...

Cambodia to Vietnam

travel , Vietnam
We got our first overnight train from Cambodia to Vietnam. We started to realise that we weren’t the only people who had fallen in love with Dara and he was quite the little charmer....