Author Archives: John Rose
In the Red Corner
So it begins…. We packed up our belongings and bade farewell to Hong Kong, with the promise of a return one day. Jumping on the MTR we headed for Wo Lu – the border station with China in General and Shenzen in particular.Customs took a while as it was busy but within the hour we […]
Peak Fitness
Today would be dominated by one major activity – climbing Victioria Peak. Before that there was the slightly challenging task of booking some onward travel in China. We found the Mongkok branch of CTS Agency and helped ourselves to a ticket from the automated queue system. It wasn’t long until our number was called and […]
Champagne, Nuns and Dim Sum!
That morning John and Karen went hunting for a new Nikon Lens for their camera. You see the J1 camera model is great (you have all the photos!) but the life cycle of their lens is rubbish. The Lens we bought in Bangalore was now broken by the time we reached Laos. As the rain […]
Wham Lampang thank you ma’am!
Another sneaky post!!! Lampang broke the journey back up to Chiang Mai. It was also the scene of Karen’s mad toilet dash during our stop on the journey to Sukhotai a few days earlier – who knew she could sprint! We had a dilemma. Stay near the bus station for a quick get away or […]
Hippy Hippy Shake
We have managed to tunnel under the Chinese Wall of Silence and can bring you some blog updates Sssssh! Transmission begins……… What happens when a bus has no suspension, is driven for 300km in the wrong gear and had dodgy tires? 6 hellish hours of our lives that we will never claw back! Oh and […]
Enter The Dragon
So we finally arrived in Mainland China which is good news. But there is some bad news too…. WordPress is banned here so we will probably not be able to update any of the content on here for a few weeks. Please use this time to catch up on our adventure to date and leave […]
Prisoners and Pad Thai
We arrived off the bus and before we knew it we were cajoled into a waiting TukTuk. As we debated the merits of this action, the heavens opened up so we were glad of the roof! We arrived at our destination a few minutes later. Funky Monkey Guesthouse lived up to its name with Monkey […]
First Site Poll
With the European Elections due in May and the Scottish Freedom Referendum looming we have decided to launch a poll on our blog. After reading our blog posts which country would YOU love to visit next?
If you go down to the woods today…
You are in for a huge surprise!!! We had heard of the Black House outside of Chiang Rai but did not know what to expect. We managed to get our guide to take us here in lieu of the waterfall and it was a great decision. The Black House (Bann Dam in Thai), is not […]
It’s a Trap!!!
As mentioned in our previous post we signed up for a half day tribal village trek/visit in the afternoon from the Hilltribe Museum. With 40 minutes before the tour started we scrambled for some lunch and as 1.30pm rolled around the clock we were ushered into a vintage Station-wagon and on our way to our […]
Temple of Bling
When the sun catches it, it shines bright like… Like a diamond! It’s covered with statues and steeples and surrounded by ponds and greenery. Take a closer look and the figures that adorn its walls and walkways are interestingly morbid, leering skills and tentacles. Unfortunately for us, an earthquake struck earlier that week and the […]
Land of 1000 Elephants
Just when we thought we had forgotten about the UK we arrived off the bus in Chiang Rai and across the street was a Boots and a Tescos!! Although to be fair they were made to rebrand as ‘Tesco Lotus’. Our Guesthouse, Grandma Kaew, was run by a Thai lady and her husband, who came […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Work of Art
In Bhaktapur (Nepal), there is a children’s home for disabled children. They also have a guesthouse called Heart of Bhaktapur. The guesthouse is covered in brilliant art work by the kids.
Vietnam Retro: Water Puppets
Karen said that this didn’t warrant it’s own post and she deleted some of the videos we took of it to make space of her phone but I am dying to share our experience at the Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre in Hanoi. For those of you who don’t know what this is, here is […]
Vietnam Retro: Crossing the Road
Found this video on my phone and decided to post it as a retrospective post about Vietnam. Crossing the road in any Asian country is tough but in Vietnam it is almost impossible. The amount of bikes of various size and horsepower competes for every inch of laneway and traffic lights are not something […]
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