OK, I'm the first one to admit that my last post was a little too long. I'll try to keep this shorter, there's not that much to tell, anyway. After our amazing (though brief) stay in Cambodia we flew back to Thailand to spend the last few days before Indonesia in Bangkok. We've heard nothing good about Bangkok from other travelers, so we figured it might not be such a bad idea to use some of our time there doing some of the things that have been needing to be don...

Ah, the lovely Lanta… We truly enjoyed our stay in Koh Lanta, you can read all about it in our last post, it was Off Exploring's "Travel Blog of the Day"! We had to leave sometime though, and we felt like that time had finally come after nine nights on the island, so once again we made reservations, packed our stuff… and gave our trusty sand (read: booze) bucket set to the first family with children we found on the beach. We had looked into the ways of get...

This is going to be a long one… The highlights are summed up in the end for convenience. After we had survived India we wanted to get to somewhere where it's warm and comfortable and where people are nice. In other words, Thailand. We had booked the tickets to Bangkok but until the last days in India we didn't have much of a clue what we would do from there on. We'd been thinking about different islands, mainly Koh Lanta, Koh Tao and Koh Chang Noi (the small...

I felt like starting a continuing series in this blog and for me the obvious choice of topic was easy: travel innovations! I like to build things, to fix things and to fail at doing both. I also succeed every once in a while and this series will show the projects that have been at the better end of the scale. Some are going to be my very own design, some I've adapted to suite my own needs, some might be things that I've just plain stolen from other people. Who kn...