Our Yellow Brick Road – Part Five I woke up at 3.40 on our last day in East Timor – bloody fridge!! ‘Oh and one of the quirks of the house is that when the fridge gets to a certain temperature it makes a loud beeping noise – all you have to do is press […]
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D-Day Day 16 Why break with tradition? We set off for the port straight after breakfast. Once we had checked if Mr Rogerio was there or not we would head to the Santos office, and in case you are lost or drifted off when we wrote about Santos – they are the company who charter
East Timor, Timor-Leste, East East Edwin had already made us each a delicious banana pancake for breakfast before the bus came to collect us at 5.10 the next morning. We had done our 43rd full scale idiot check of the journey (which from experience involved two of us shaking out alll our bedding, checking every
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The Great Big Southeast Asia Blog – by Rosa Laos was … tropical. I mean, I didn’t know what I expected, but honestly even from a tropical place, I wasn’t expecting it to be quite so stereotypically tropical. The earth was red, and there was an overwhelming abundance of green wherever you looked. Strange and
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We’re on a boat to somewhere… We arrived at the border pa town of Su Ngai Kolok (such a fun name to say out loud) just as the sun was beginning to flex its muscles. We resisted the urge to get on a motorbike taxi…we reckoned we could have sold footage of us flying backwards
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33 degrees 3rd class A minibus, a train, a local bus into the city and we had arrived in the Laos Capital, at Vientiane bus station to be precise. The bus we needed to get to Thailand was practically next to us as we pulled in and a kind taxi driver showed us where we
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Onward to Laos The journey from Guilin to Kunming passed in a relatively sedate seven and a half hours. When we arrived at the station Mrs Cheery said, ‘come on guys let’s walk a bit, stretch our legs and get a taxi in a bit!’- downtown Kunming turned out to be deserted… With a population
Okay, is this really happening? When we finally decided on our route to Australia, Kazakhstan was the first jewel. A vast undiscovered land with hidden treasures and camels! I spent a while ‘discovering’ Kazakhstan, usually before work at 4.00 in the morning on days I couldn’t sleep, and eventually I found somewhere for us to
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From Russia, with love (…and if I’m honest a little bit of fear!) Halfway through the train journey that took us out of Russia and into Kazakhstan, I had to delete this post. At that point Theo had been being interrogated for nearly an hour by Russian security forces. Theo spoke quickly and
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Inset Day Tomorrow So, my body knows I should be gearing up for the start of term, and I did a solid eight hours of it last night, while I slept! Even when I woke up for a wee I still went back to work. The level of detail was classic, I spent most of
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