If Vientiane is sleepy, Luang Prabang is practically comatose. The old part of town lies on a finger of land, the milk coffee Mekong flowing languidly west along one side, More… →
We had a week in Kuala Lumpur (in Hotel Sentral for the third time) and, as usual, had a significant to-do list of cleaning, mending and replacing our belongings, including More… →
Sue and Ade met us at the airport and, just as it had been with Oui, it was so lovely to see a familiar face. Our room at T-star Cottages More… →
Souvenir umbrella shop, Nyaung U Steep stairs up Shwesandaw It’s easy to imagine all of SE Asia as a lush and verdant landscape of coconut palms, banana trees and tangled More… →
Temple on Mandalay Hill We needn’t have fretted about the state of our banknotes – the guy in front of us at Mandalay airport’s currency exchange desk pulled a rolled More… →
Sunset over Wat Arun, Bangkok We were both quite glad to leave India. That’s not something I ever expected to say, but the dirt, litter and crowds of northern India More… →
The main reason we were in Thailand was to get a Myanmar visa in Bangkok. Getting visas is never fun, but this was the least fun we’d had for a More… →
The day we left Varanasi for Calcutta was, for me, the worst day of the trip so far. Stomach ache and nausea had sent me to the freezing cold bathroom More… →
The next stop was Varanasi, a new destination for us. The drive in from the airport was long and increasingly depressing – congested, litter-strewn streets typical of any scruffy, nondescript More… →
Our first destination from Kathmandu was Delhi, and our short stay there was mostly concerned with shopping – but not the carpets and souvenirs that tourists usually buy. Top of More… →