History and warmth in Cambodia
Two questions bother me after five days in Cambodia: How can a country recovering from genocide be the friendliest place on earth? Why did the Americans support Pol Pot in the 1980s after he’d […]
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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 […]
