After such an exhausting day we woke up about 10:30. We literally had nothing planned for the day. Tik suggested that perhaps we rent some bikes and cycle around the town but as soon as we stepped into the heat and dust of the street both of us pretended to have forgotten completely [...]

We were met by our driver outside our guesthouse at 4:30.
Our tour guide was called Liv and he was an experienced guide with a clear American accent and a great vocabulary. He’s worked as a tour guide for five years and was very knowledgable about every question we could fire at him.
We began at [...]

I woke about 4:00 today after getting to bed only a couple of hours earlier. Tik, rather sensibly had a few hours more rest than me although neither of us had made much progress packing before the alarm woke us up.
We travelled light, with only a 5 litre backpack between us. This trip [...]

Tik and I are getting organized for a few days in Siam Reap, Cambodia to visit Angkor Wat. We had a few options to consider when organizing it all but we’ve decided to have some fun as backpackers and to brave the big bad world without laptops, room service and concierges.
We’ll be back Sunday [...]

Once Lisa returns to the UK my new life starts again. Tik is now living permanently with me and we have an exciting year planned. For the three weeks between May and August Tik and I will study in the mornings. I will continue my gemology diploma and Tik will take some [...]

I’ve added our Taiwan photos to the site now although the photo section needs some repair work right now.
You can see the photos here

I was amazed that Tik, a feew days previous had acquired a collection of interesting DVD’s. I was equally amazed that they cost her no more than 50 baht ($1.25) each. She’d bought them from a Myanmar market and we decided to return there today to get a few more. In all [...]

We left the house just before lunchtime and traveled with Wenjing and Claire to central Taipei. We dropped our bags off with a friend of Wenjings and had a few hours to explore the city centre. We began in the shopping mall and were well fed from the huge variety of foods there [...]

We returned to the market the following morning for some further shopping. After that all of us traveled to the beach. I loved the novelty of taking Miss Piggy for a walk so she came along too in the car, which was a novel, but memorably smelly journey. Whilst Sue and Wenjing [...]

The next morning we checked out of the hotel and headed higher yet into the mountains. Here was another village, purely for tourists. We took a cable car to the peak of the mountain and enjoyed half a day in a well-developed holiday resort there. It is impressive when one considers just [...]