eat, drink, travel, repeat
Bangkok is one of my favourite cities and a great place to shop. Here are my 5 Top Bangkok Shopping Spots for hunting and gathering. Pack light and go nuts. Top Bangkok Shopping Spots 1) Chatuchack Weekend Market Be warned- this is one mother of a market. It’s home to over 15,000 stalls and spread out across […]
Despite a love affair with Bangkok, we have decided to live in Cambodia – Asha has got a good job, we have found a great apartment and we really love Phnom Penh. We needed to do a Visa run – leaving Cambodia so that we could re-enter with business/NGO visas. What better excuse to spend […]
After a hot tip from our favourite vegan at the Pro Bono Australia office (we miss you Spirit Eagle!) we set off from Chiang Mai on the hunt for a secret oasis in the hills by the name of Pai (as in apple). Pai is somewhat of a secret amongst travellers (although I use the […]
The eating habits of Thai people are very different from what we are used to. Here, people eat 6 or 7 times a day – eating a lot of small meals, instead of the 3 food-loading sessions a day. That’s why food can be found on just about every street. There are even food outlets […]
Asha and I have spent the last 15 days in Northern Thailand, mostly in Chiang Mai, about 700 km’s north of Bangkok. The town sits amongst Thailand’s tallest mountains – although we didnt realise this for the first few days, as the dry summer smoke-filled haze made them impossible to see. We spent most of […]
No, seriously. 711’s are everywhere in Thailand, and you can barely walk a block in the capital without bumping into one. And they sell everything!!! Beer, spirits, hot dogs and burgers, a baffling array of yakult and so many random asians snack you will freak out – all of life’s necessities in one fluorescently lit […]
In our own personal homage to TV’s Tom Haverford, Asha and I set out on our very on ‘Treat Yo Self’ Day, Bangkok style. Breakfast a posh french creperie, a couple of hours spent at a luxurious spa getting massages, cocktails on the roof of one of Bangkok’s tallest buildings and dinner at a Japanese […]
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/38309969 w=540&h=338] Asha and Ryan – January/February 2012 from Asha and Ryan on Vimeo. As we travel across south-east Asia, we are filming a few seconds each day to give our family and friends a glimpse of what we have been upto. Hopefully this video inspires someone to save some coin, quit their job […]
When I read travel blogs, I always want to know ‘how much do things actually cost?’. But usually its really hard to find out. So, if you are planning to travel to the islands in Southern Thailand, I hope this is useful. The islands of Krabi and Trang province are probably the most expensive destinations […]
A Chinese woman stands amidst a throng of tourists frozen in ridiculous poses in waist deep water, and quietly vomits into the turquoise blue as cameras click all around her. Nobody seems to notice. Welcome to Maya Bay, the location of the Leonardo Di Caprio blockbuster ‘The Beach‘. The plot of the movie is as […]
I (Ryan) took my camera down to the beach one night while staying on Phi Phi. I got some great long exposure shots (up to 20 seconds), where the moon makes the scene seem like sunrise (really its very dark).
Asha’s 26th birthday was celebrated in style, on a beach on the far side of Phi Phi Island in the Andaman sea. When you find a place like this, its hard to leave, and we kept extending our time on the island, eventually leaving after 6 days. When the bungalows were fully booked the staff […]