by Mark | September 26, 2015 | Off the Beaten Path, Thailand
Five places in north-east and northern Thailand (that aren’t Chiang Mai or Pai) that are worth making the effort to visit Want to get away from Thailand’s tourist hotspots? Here are five towns in the north and northeast of Thailand that we have visited and...
by Mark | December 15, 2021 | Annual Review, England
Plus, our tips on how to travel around the UK on a budget After flying back to London from Bangkok in March 2020, it took us about a year to realise that overseas travel to the places we are interested in visiting – the former Soviet Union, Indian subcontinent,...
by Kirsty | January 10, 2021 | England, Street Art
The best street art in London: My pick of walls and artists across the capital Often when we are back in the UK visiting family and friends in between long stints of travel, I head into London to check out the latest street art. My favourite areas for street art in...
by Kirsty | January 9, 2021 | Annual Review, England, Thailand, Vietnam
Oh, 2020 we had such great plans for you. For the first time in ages, we had most of our travel year planned out – flights, car hire and even some apartments and hotels had been booked. Algeria, Poland, Belarus, Bulgaria, Serbia, North Macedonia and Central Asia...
by Mark | October 2, 2020 | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Nepal, Photo Essay, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
World Smile Day takes place on the first Friday of October in honour of Harvey Ball who created the Smiley Face back in 1963. Smiley has come a long way in fifty-two years! In 2020, the date for World Smile Day is Friday 2nd October. The message for World Smile...
by Mark | July 15, 2020 | Vietnam
Musings from Mark: some thoughts that seem negative, but are actually positive, rants on Saigon traffic, thoughts for future trips to Vietnam, and eventually to the point… Vietnamese War memorials! Last February, 2020, as we sat at Ho Chi Minh City (*) airport waiting...
