Today I went on Fred”s tour with 11 others from our guesthouse “ZZ Guesthous’. Ufortunately Pete missed out as he had been up all night coughing. So we headed into the cool mountains (14 degrees) to see some beautiful waterfalls, a cloud forest complete with the King’s and Queen’s Pagodas, Read more
The old walled city of Chiang Mai is just bursting full of temples (or wats). We went around a handful yesterday but stupid me forgot to take my sarongs to cover up in order to be allowed to enter the temples (women’s shoulders and knees must be covered). Luckily some Read more
So whilst travelling I didn’t want to add to the mountain of plastic bottles that our countries can’t cope with. Here you will see a photo taken at the edge if a road in Bangkok highlighting the problem. So with a very kind donation from Marie Skillicorn and Keith Skillicorn Read more
Click for photos. So our flight with Emirates was via Dubai and continuing the theme of not really looking like backpackers – we got a free upgrade to something like premium economy. Ooh we were very happy upstairs on the Airbus with lots of legroom and just the two of Read more
Here is Pete as we landed at Liverpool Airport on Monday. “I thought we were going to be travelling light” he said, “I feel like a pregnant snail!” (click to see the photo)
So after a frantic couple of weeks and then a few chilled days in The wirral catching up with friends and family, today we head off with our rucksacks to Manchester Airport. We have dashed around a few bikes shops today trying to get quick release fixings for our CamelBak Read more