We have finally been safely restored to the sanity, luxury and wifi wonderfulness of Bangkok.  Phew.  Being in Burma and trying to get online was like ye olden days of Amstrad computers and dial up modems, plus a lot of sites were just plain blocked.  Weirdly I could occasionally log on to Facebook, but no such luck buying capitalist propaganda on amazon, or kitschy tat on eBay.  Both sites were consistently blocked. The last few days in Burma we spent on a ...

We have finally been safely restored to the sanity, luxury and wifi wonderfulness of Bangkok.  Phew.  Being in Burma and trying to get online was like ye olden days of Amstrad computers and dial up modems, plus a lot of sites were just plain blocked.  Weirdly I could occasionally log on to Facebook, but no such luck buying capitalist propaganda on amazon, or kitschy tat on eBay.  Both sites were consistently blocked. The last few days in Burma we spent on a ...

On the top of a mountain somewhere northeast of Rangoon stands a huge rock. Balancing precariously at the edge of the rock on top of the hill sits a huge boulder painted gold and looking for all the world as if a hefty shove would send it topping down the hillside. But no. Apparently it's been there for thousands of years and it's tenacity has paid off, it is now an important pilgrimage site visited by hundreds of Burmese every day who slog a couple of kilomet...

A few days ago, whilst wandering around the earthquake stricken pagoda Brian got a small but persistent thorn attached to the bottom of his foot that evaded all our valiant attempts to dislodge it. To be fair, this mostly involved him lying on the bus mewling pitifully as I approached him with my sharp fingernails. As you may already have gathered from previous blogs, he is not the most robust, or indeed patient, of patients and, after thirty seconds of me proddi...

To get to Bagan, land of a million pagodas, we had to sail down the Irrawaddy.  As we drew up to the river to find our boat we delightedly spotted a sleek luxury liner, complete with steamer chairs, teak furnishings and elaborate awnings.  Wow.  That's the way to travel.   Sadly of course, rather like that advertisement where the push bike is parked behind the Porsche, so it was for us.  Our boat, or should I say tub, bobbed away, alongside the grand vessel...