I am a big fan of Dan and Ian’s Lifestyle Business Podcasts, and one of their recent topics was on the subject of ‘the ideal place to live and work’; Dan is very keen on the idea of living in Bali, and good luck to him, it is a great little island. Despite living for …
This is just a quick post aimed at those using mobile phones in Thailand. Unless you are fluent in Thai script it is difficult to understand the many different payment packages that are available, and talking to the sales people is a bit like banging your head against a brick wall. Anyway when I was …
What can I say, I love Borneo, see these posts for what I think of Sarawak, but this post is about my latest trip to Northern Borneo. Bako National Park Gunung Gading National Park I visited the North Borneo region of Sabah with my friend Shawna, who was ready to escape the cold of the …
North Borneo, Sabah – Kota Kinabalu, Sungai Kinabatangan and Sandakan Read More »
For some reason wordpress decided to only publish half of my last blog post (I really do hate Content Management Systems). So here is a continuation of the post from Langzhong and Chengdu. I cannot be bothered to write it all again, other to say that I had a fantastic time in both places, and …
I am in the privileged position of having friends all over the world, one of whom is Shawna who I met during my time at Cornell. She has now moved to Chengdu, a city in the Sichuan region of China where she is currently working as a lecturer at the medical school of the main …
Hello my good people, as usual I’m a bit behind with my blog. I am currently in Palawan in the Philippines and have recently been to Vietnam, China, Borneo, Mainland Malaysia, Thailand and South Africa. I will do a quick posts so that my readers (you know who you are) can see a few pics …
I went to the BBC site this morning and I got a service not available message. My second thoughts were that the Conservatives have only been in power for two days, how did they manage to close down the BBC so soon. My third thoughts were that the BBC was being blocked in Thailand due …
As I make my living online and spend my time travelling I tend to move around like I’m dancing the tango (slow slow quick quick slow). I tend to travel to a lot of places in a couple of months (last time was Cambodia, Vietnam, China and Malaysia) and then spend a few months at …
I recommend any one going to Thailand to read this post on first time advice for visitors to Thailand by Chris from My Egg Noodles. There is some excellent advice given, not too sure about the suitcase, I prefer a backpack (I’ve stayed at many places without lifts, also most cities in Thailand have large …
The last time I was in Phnom penh was back in 1998 when I was travelling with Ch my friends Chris and Danny on my first backpacking trip. When we got into town we were under orders to report in at the British embassy; which was located a few blocks out of town on an …