Episode 6 – Rambo XVI – Sight of the Panda
Travel Blog | September 4, 2010 | 0 Comments
So elephants ticked off the bucket list, which left us a day in Chang Mai to dick about and cram in as many of the must dos in 24 hours. Here’s how we did Pandas Now I have always wanted to see a panda and we found out that the Chinese government had loaned two […]
Elephant Trekking in Chiang Mai
Travel Blog | September 2, 2010 | 4 Comments
The Hotel We arrived in Chiang airport and the transfer to the Hotel was quick with the airport so near to the city. John decided on this hotel on the last day in samui. He certainly picked abelter, it’s £18 for the room which includes all the usual, the fastest wifi we have had anywhere […]
Episode 4- Planes Trains and Automobiles, Coaches, Tuk Tuks, Sky-train
Travel Blog | August 31, 2010 | 0 Comments
So goodbye then Samui, we will miss you quite a lot. But we set off this morning very excited about our multiple faceted journey ahead of us. For those of you with attention span of a goldfish here are the highlights before I start blathering on about the whole journey in excruciating detail. Taxi to […]
Episode 3 – Chicky: Cultural Learnings of Thailand for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Little Britain
Travel Blog | August 28, 2010 | 0 Comments
Today’s blog is brought to you live from the beach and I have included a gratuitous shot of my bare feet just to prove the point. I apologise for the delay in the blogging I am having a bit of trouble with my sleep timings which have swung from late nights out in Patong till […]
Episode 2 – Phuket Nights
Travel Blog | August 25, 2010 | 2 Comments
We are having a quiet night in tonight ready for an earlyish flight to Ko Samui tomorrow. Here’s what we have been up to for the last few days The Hotel We continued our B&B bookings by choosing the Tiger Inn, it is located about 300 yards from the beach and close to the main […]
Episode 1 : Strains on a Plane
Travel Blog | August 21, 2010 | 1 Comments
Episode 1 I left you last time having literally just arrived in Bangkok at our airport hotel and posted my blatherings from the flight. To keep you up to date, the second leg of the flight from Abu Dhabi was even better than the first, we managed four seats each to ourselves so we could […]
Previously on the not well written blog
Travel Blog | August 20, 2010 | 5 Comments
Previously….. If you are on of my thousands of new readers I thought it only fair to do a Season 1 recap a la Lost, Heroes and Flashforward (oh shit not that one, it got canned didn’t it and never made it to season 2, shame I liked Mr Fiennes fine American accent) so here […]
Hotels, Weather and Other Planning
Travel Blog | August 6, 2010 | 5 Comments
I’m in Love Again Having discovered that with a modicum of HTML tagging and a little bit of patience on my part (not a trait that comes easy to me) I can in fact do bold, lists and proper hyperlinks on this blogging tool now. I am therefore officially back in love with the iPad […]
The Evolution of a Trip
Travel Blog | August 2, 2010 | 5 Comments
You can read this blog in two ways. Either as me showing off that I have all the freedom in the world to go on holiday where I like; or as a useful set of tips and hints for DIY trip planning. Hopefully demonstrating how, with a lot of time and a bit of flexibility, […]
Gadgets for Travel – or not….
Travel Blog | May 9, 2010 | 0 Comments
tr Will you really need these things? While bouncing around the internet (stumbleupon is a time munching monster) I came across a couple of travel gadgets which led me on to finding out what weird and wonderful things I could find to spend money that I haven’t got. Here are the fruits of my labours. […]