Category: Musings

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Emei Shan, China, Day 12

The day started in steamy subtropical temperatures, nothing to do with the weather outside which was still damp from last nights spectacular thunderstorm, rather because we’d turned the living room into a makeshift drying area...

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A yearning for social media…

…I wonder how @Paxochka is…I thought randomly this morning, I miss seeing Bogie and Astrid I thought next, oh and Kirsten and on and on my thoughts go. As the days go by with...

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Emei Shan, China, Day 10 & 11

19.5 hours after boarding we were more than ready to disembark £23 hard sleepers on the poo express. Tensions had been fraying for a few days amongst some of the group and almost a...

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Beijing, China, Day One

Being the great explorers that we are our first day in China was spent getting to know the vast malls that surround our hotel. I know I know but in our defence we are...

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Goodbye Vietnam

We’ve experienced a phenomenon on this trip whereby when it comes to the end of a really nice stay somewhere the last day is unlike all those before, unexpected noise, screaming kids, something upsets the...

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Three weeks in Cambodia

Cambodia had been a blank page in my mind, I’d never dreamed of coming here and knew little about it other than it was home to the Angkors and had been ravaged by external...

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Angkor Wat and Thom, Kampuchea

We’d spent thirty four consecutive days with people by the time we reached Siem Reap in the Kingdom of Cambodia, or Kampuchea as the people of Kampuchea apparently call it in Khmer, the national...

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Myanmar 2016

Our last day in Myanmar began with a shake and a shudder, the overnight train from Bagan to Yangon was hilarious, the rumours of it being bumpy were not understated. There were several times...

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Myanmar, Day 14, Bagan

Today was the kind of day dreams are made of, well at least the morning was. We woke at five and began slowly waking up and getting ready, knocked on Ma’s door at six...