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 […]
‘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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We left Canada today for Los Angeles. We have been very lucky to experience so much of the country, although given that it is 40 x larger than the UK we have hardly touched the […]
There are still over 500 fires ablaze across Western Canada, but on Sunday night it rained thankfully. Not enough to put them out, but enough to clear up some of the smoke. We had got […]
The 180 mile road from Lake Louise north up to Jasper is the Icefields Parkway and it goes over 2000m and passes through long-term icefields such as Columbia and Athabasca. On any measure it is […]
