The Can & Cannot’s of Train Travel – Part III

But it's not all bad... The last couple of days in my previous articles, I’ve been explaining why train travel can sometimes be the most awful curse that can be inflicted on anyone for a couple of hours. Today though, to wrap up this collection of posts, I explain what makes train travel more respectable than a lot of other ways of getting around and why I continue to take the train.   Just take this off, then that, take that out of your... Read More

Final Days in Thailand

With Thailand drawing to a close, we eventually decided that, surrounded by sparklingly clear water and scenic islands, a tour was the order of the day.   Time for breakfast once again... Ao Nang, aside from its market stalls, its many restaurants and its many tourists, is also home to a large number of ‘travel agencies’, some ranging in size from a fully-fledged office to something the equivalent of a phone booth size. All of which were... Read More

If I Passed This Off as Chinese New Year…

Would that work better? The problem I always have with writing ‘lengthy’ articles, as I always tend to do, is that they end up having to be split into a number of posts, each getting further from the last, until both you (and I) more than likely forget what we were even reading, or writing, about. And when large absence’s happen on this site, then the usual excuse of ‘very busy’ gets pulled out and guess what – it’s been rolled out once... Read More