Archive for 'Travels'
Lao Vientiane
Well after having a great time in the party cities of Hong Kong and Bangkok I arrived in the capital city of Lao PDR, Vientiane. What a shock this was to the system, the streets were quiet, the pubs shut down early and the tuk tuk drivers wanted about three days average wages to drive [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2010 under Asia, Travels.
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Isaan Region of Thailand
I travelled from Bangkok to Vientiane in Laos in order to get a tourist visa. I went overland through the Isaan region of Thailand and visited a few of the major cities.
The Isaan region of Thailand is quite different from the Chiang mai region where I spent the last 5 months or so. The people [...]
Posted: February 1st, 2010 under Asia, Travels.
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Tip of my hat to Glaxo
It is not often that I give praise to a drug company, but I will today. Glaxo Welcome Smith Kline (lot’s of merging in the drugs industry) has announced that it is making their database of 13,500 chemicals that have been shown to act against the plasmodium parasite (which causes malaria) publicly available. It is [...]
Posted: January 20th, 2010 under Biology, Musings, Travels, United Kingdom.
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A Taste of Asia: Good Things To Come
Well I am getting seriously behind with my travel updates! Although I have recently been blogging about Chiang mai there are three countries that I have recently been to which I have yet to write about.
These are Macau, Laos and Burma; I have also spent some time up in the North East of Thailand (an [...]
Posted: November 12th, 2009 under Asia.
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