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  • Laos – A land of promise

    With Thailand behind us it was time to visit Laos; the relatively forgotten and lesser travelled country at the heart of South East Asia. Our plan had always been to start our journey with the… Read more

  • A Surprise Weekend in Kuala Lumpur

    It feels like a lifetime ago now, but we realised we never actually wrote about our unexpected weekend in Kuala Lumpur. If you haven’t already, you can read about how we ended up on a… Read more

  • We survived the Slow Boat!

    Our journey from Chiang Rai in Northern Thailand to Luang Prabang in Laos took 3 days, 2 buses, 2 slow boats and about 4 tuk tuks! When we first set off to the bus station… Read more

  • A Few Days in Northern Thailand

    Our original plan had been to get the sleeper train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, but as with most plans we make that didn’t exactly work out! You can read here about our visa debacle… Read more

  • A Taste of Island Life

    Our experience of island life in Thailand consisted of 20 days going between the 3 main islands in the the Gulf of Thailand. Koh Samui – the big island Koh Phangan – home of the… Read more

  • A Sweaty Day at Erawan National Park

    We used one of our few days in Kanchanaburi to go to Erawan National Park, a 2km trek with seven tiers of waterfalls and pools. It took us just over an hour on our rental… Read more

  • Pressure + Depth = Good times.

    Let’s talk about Scuba. We wanted to do a post about our time in Koh Tao and the Scuba training we got there. In time we’ll write a post about the trip to all the… Read more

  • A Day We Would Sooner Forget 

    A day of travel was what we had ahead of us, we can manage that right? It started with a 5.30am wake up call in order to grab a quick breakfast before going to get… Read more

  • A Few Words of Advice

    It has been two weeks since we arrived in Thailand and in that time we have learnt a few things that we thought we would share:  Read more

  • A Year of Travel

    I am prone to the plans I make falling through or some sort of disaster preventing them from happening and causing me to have to change tack altogether. This has been the case for quite… Read more

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