eat, drink, travel, repeat
We decided to get out of tour and do a bicycle tour of some of the islands along the Mekong river near Phnom Penh. I’d almost forgotten we had done something very similar almost a year ago – cycling from island to island along the Mekong in Si Phan Don (4000 islands) in Laos. We’ve […]
So we finally managed to upload our video-mash of our 5 weeks in Laos. We had a brilliant time in Laos, its a stunningly beautiful country (as the video shows), and although we were there at the hottest time of the year, there was always a river nearby. We travelled the full length of Laos, […]
After finishing the Thakhek loop, we continued our way north, taking a truly horrible ride on a local bus down to Pakse. The usual story – cancelled buses, overloading, time spent loading a motorbike and goats onto the roof, toilet or foods breaks every 30 minutes, picking people up and dropping others off – anyway, […]
In ‘The Art of Travel’, Philosopher and author Alain De Botton talks about the beauty of rail travel, and how it allows people to break away from their normal patterns of thought. “Of all the modes of transport, the train is perhaps the best aid to thought: the views have none of the potential monotony […]