I'm not a person who suffers the cold much. On long haul flights or bus journeys where people are begging for blankets, I'm usua...

As I mentioned in a previous post I recently returned from Beijing to Hong Kong only to find we were arriving by plane in the middle of a ty...

Digressing from the previous 'Dick on a Stick' post I must return to more travel related content. I finally got to visit the Great...

Snack Street, Beijing I was asked the rather unusual question above on a visit to Beijing, China a few days ago. I was on a part business, ...

After the previous somewhat serious post, I thought I'd lighten things up a little. I like to write and express and talk shite about, w...

We paid u$d100 for a flight from Bangkok to Macau with just 16 hours notice - damn cheap! Interestingly enough, Macau was both the first an...

When I first visited Bangkok back in 1994, it was a sprawling, congested, polluted city where tuk tuks seemed to outnumber people as they sp...

The immigration process to enter Talichek, Myanmar aka Burma from Mae Sai, Thailand is easily the most bizarre I've ever encountered but...

After bus burnout we flew 1 hour from Luang Prabang in Laos to Chiang Mai, Thailand. We arrived on a Sunday which is the biggest market day ...

I've been on my fair share of long bus rides (like this one - here ) but these two back to back rides are right up there with the All St...

From Phnom Penh we headed south and crossed the border into Vietnam where we arrived at Ho Chi Min City. HCMC is just a blur of motorbikes o...

Royal Palace, Phnom Penh Phnom Penh is 6 hours from Siam Reap. It's a poverty stricken, polluted, congested mess. Besides the Royal Pala...

Angkor Wat, Siem Reap Apart from the Khymer Rouge, Cambodia is probably best known for the temple ruins of Angkor Wat which is a short hop ...

Welcome to the Kingdom of Cambodia (Got lottsa money?) How to avoid the scams crossing the border from Bangkok, Thailand to Siam Reap, Cambo...