About a week after we moved into Doi Ping Mansion, the residents’ Christmas party took place. Food contributions were invited, but it seemed that drink would be provided – sure More… →
Once again Air Asia proved the cheapest way to get from A to B, in this case Kuala Lumpur to Chiang Mai, in half the time and at half the More… →
A trip from Kulala Lumpur to Pulau Ketam – Crab Island If a tourist in Kuala Lumpur takes a day trip out of town, it will usually be to the More… →
I really wasn’t looking forward to the flight back to Kuala Lumpur – not least because it was a 21:30 take-off and 04:30 landing (it’s only a 4:30 hour flight, More… →
Once we were free from dental appointments we hired Nitin, our taxi driver, to take us out for the day. Although we’d been to Goa several times we’d never been More… →
Our friend Sal arrived towards the end of our stay in Chapora, so there was only time for a few outings – a very pleasant afternoon and sunset at Oltremarino More… →
We stayed at the Swan Inn again in Bali. I was glad we went all the way to Ubud even though we were only passing through and staying 4 nights. More… →
On our last day in Brisbane we wanted to get among those beautiful jacaranda trees. Rather than heading in our usual direction we walked up and over the ridge south More… →
Our expedition to Stradbroke Island started with a walk to South Bank railway station, where we took the train to Cleveland. It was a meandering route and we stopped at More… →
As a taxi to Townsville airport was only $22 it hadn’t been worth making the extra effort required to get the shuttle bus. The airport itself was small, and memorable More… →