The good thing about getting around Bangkok is that there are so many options, and local transport is extremely cheap compared with western countries. The biggest problem is the traffic, More… →
Getting a Chinese tourist visa in Chiang Mai I originally planned on getting our Chinese visas in Hong Kong – it was supposed to be quite easy. But then I More… →
How to save money by self-catering in Australia When I was first estimating the likely costs of our Australia trip I allowed AU$50 per day for food for the 2 More… →
A while ago I tested some of the many flight search sites that are on the internet. Some were dire and some useful, but none was great to the extent More… →
Visa regulations in Thailand seem to change every other month, the official government websites are not very informative even when they are in English, and each immigration office seems to More… →
The Thai tourist visa situation changed on 12 November 2015, so all references on the internet to double and triple entry visas are now obsolete. The only tourist visas issued More… →
Like most budget travellers we normally buy bottled water to take on flights, but when it comes to buying water at KLIA2 there’s a problem. You can’t buy bottled water More… →
Like many long term travellers, we had been planning to get an Indian tourist visa in Bangkok – at least for 3 months if we couldn’t score a 6-month one. More… →
We were burgled while staying in a rented cottage just outside Ubud in Bali. We lost all our laptops and tablets, a substantial amount of cash, our driving licences and 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… →