Seminyak stopover
Our flight from Bangkok to Bali had been bought on a special deal that meant we got seats with extra legroom, and since all the other seats around were empty More… →
Author Archives: Mrs Vagabond
Talad Noi – a different side of Bangkok
From Taiwan we flew back to Bangkok, for the 3rd time this year, but this time we had an apartment booked through Airbnb. The owner was abroad but his friend More… →
Staying healthy
Advice for avoiding traveller’s diarrhoea is all over the internet so I won’t repeat it here. By and large we stick to it, except we do sometimes have salads; avoiding More… →
Farewell Taiwan
I had hoped to visit Yangmingshan, a mountainous national park just north of Taipei, but our last full day was dull and humid with low, threatening clouds – we’d probably More… →
Exploring Taipei
The metro journey to Beitou was overground most of the way, so we got to see Taipei’s suburbs – a wasteland of shabby concrete apartment complexes. A very slow branch More… →
Hello Taiwan
Originally we had planned to go to China from Japan, work our way south from Beijing to Guangzhou, visit a friend, and exit via Hong Kong and back to Bangkok. More… →
Thoughts on Japan
It’s amazing. Impossibly beautiful gardens. Such care in making little things look pleasing. Design so restrained, simple, tasteful. Where there is ornamentation, such as carving on a temple, the colour More… →
Exploring Osaka
We stayed in our room most of the following day to sort out and back up computer files and research Taipei – it had suddenly dawned on me that we More… →
Finding Nemo
The hotel breakfast buffet was…interesting. Triangles of pressed rice triangles with a sesame crust, miso soup, really hard sour pickled cherries, seaweed, some cooked vegetables. Some miniature croissants were the More… →
To Osaka
We took a stopping train to Osaka, but even so it took less than an hour. Since budget accommodation can be hard to find in Kyoto, some tourists stay in More… →