They’d NEVER get away with this at home!! How often do you do a double take, on your travels, at those iffy situations and locations you find yourself in. I do feel, at times, that we have lost the plot here with Health and Safety – protective fences and barricades, handrails everywhere, safety notices at […]
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Everyone is complaining all week about the rain – horrendous showers with enough of a gap in between to trick one into believing the worst has passed! We’re hosting two new pals we made in Madagascar last year – they’ve been like drowned rats since they arrived from the US and Canada earlier in the […]
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Picture the royal barge making its way along the Chao Phraya River from Bangkok to the summer palace at Bang Pa-In. It’s 1880 and the boat is carrying Queen Sunanda – the 19 year old first wife of King Chulalongkorn – and their daughter, princess Kannabhorn, not yet 2 years old. The boat runs into […]
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Ah – How peaceful is this – and, stunning as Bangkok’s monuments are, I like the absence of gold and bright colour for a while! This is what’s left of the once great city of Ayutthaya. Founded in 1350, it would flourish between 14th – 18th centuries into a major urban centre of commerce and […]
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I made up my mind, before I even set foot on a plane, that I wasn’t going to like Hoi An. Definitely a tourist trap, terribly overcrowded, undoubtedly full of aggressive touts and sounding more like a theme park than a traditional town. But – it had a few things going for it – it’s […]
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