It was a heated duel. Truth be told, I was losing. I forgot how many times the computer had beat me in Connect Four (3 in a row). I lost track of the number of headlines that included corruption or Charbonneau as I read from…
“That price seems fair, and I don't want to insult him by negotiating” “OK, I guess if my hotel burned down you can take me to another one” “Let's stay in and cook tonight, all the restaurants are unaffordable” “Really? Your brother has a gem…
From Hanoi upwards, and downwards, here’s a quick highilght reel of the last three weeks in Vietnam… – Trekking to the H’mong villages in Sapa. Lucked out finding the clearest, bluest day to see the Vietnamese Alps on a slow trot down a hilly, undulated,…
Where people drink juices, hot milk teas and other suspiciously-coloured liquids from plastic bags, which they carry around like intravenous handbags on strings. Where industrialization is still in a selfish state: Men throw wrappers and cigarette buts freely on the ground. Children send used napkins…
Ko Phi Phi’s beauty is more than emerald water deep – the endless mid afternoom procession that color the back streets of the tourist ghetto highlight this party isle’s fascinating diversity: A man pushing a cart filled with garbage bags. Another pushes backpacks and…
Or better yet, on the most pleasant surprise of the last four weeks. Trang, our first stop on our tour of the Andaman isles, is a delightful slice of Thai bohemia. But it begins in Hat Yai, our first post Malaysian-Thai border stop where we…
Travelling for many months is a long and winding road: You deliberate at the forks and savour the turns, cross and re-cross paths with fellow wanderers and (sometimes when you least expect it) come out at spectacular views. And, more often than you'd like, as…
A quick update before we hit the Thai Isles, where Internet may be limited and sand in over abundance: We spent five nights in the Cameron Highlands. The air was cool, the hikes ranged from gentle to not so gentle, the tea estates were magnificent,…
We landed in Hong Kong late at night. The next morning we woke at 7am and, determined to put a clamp on any transpacific jetlag, we set off in search of coffee. Local coffee, of course, because to get anything other than a cultural infusion…
