History and warmth in Cambodia
Two questions bother me after five days in Cambodia: ==== People travel for fun, for good times, and you could sail through Cambodia and emerge still ignorant about the genocide in the 1980s, Pol Pot, […]
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7th, 8th or 9th Wonder of the World
‘Why did we get up so ****** early – we told you that 5am was too early.’ Mutiny is in the air. The aggressive wake-up time has disturbed the troops. ‘If you knew the sun […]
Becoming the product: luxury travel in Halong Bay, Vietnam
Vietnam is an economic success story, but one that you don’t hear much about. It’s GDP averages 6+% since 2000. Or perhaps you do if you look closely at your Nike shoe or clothing labels. […]
Nice communists, climate change challenges and Christmas Day – reflections on Laos
It’s Christmas Day, theoretically, and since Laos has few Christians, the day is not recognised by the Government; only by a few tourist outlets displaying garish red and white decorations with uncharacteristic desperation. The children […]
Trekking in Laos through teak forests
‘Just how exactly did the travel agent describe this trek?’ It is not so much a question as a threat. Lucy is half-way up a dried-up stream in the hills outside Luang Prabang. The gradient […]
Paradise Found: Luang Prabang
[Luang Prabang for 3 nights to start our trip] Sometimes, you just know. Call it experience, call it luck, call it intuition, call it one of the very few good things about getting older, but […]
Days 1 & 2 – our mini adventure begins via the Bangkok Travelodge – or was it the Ritz?
[Oxford to Luang Prabang, Laos] Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport does not a good traveller make. That is, if you believe the old saying that ‘smooth seas do not make a good sailor’. It is […]
6 years later and T minus months
No-one deserves a long glamorous holiday (and let’s get this out of the way – a heavily CO2 emitting holiday) but there is something about turning 50 and working your bollocks off which makes you […]
Back to LA and then back home
As many of you know, we are back in the UK now. We spent our last few days in Los Angeles staying at Lucy’s brother’s house again. Sadly he was Vancouver directing a movie and […]
‘Where’s the nearest gun store?’ – a postcard from San Francisco
I stopped off in San Francisco (SF) for a day and a half while the girls went to LA. Given the power of ‘big tech’, you could argue that SF is the most influential city […]
Travels with my Family 