And so, to Hong Kong... I wasn't really sure what to expect from Hong Kong. We were looking forward to some 'home comforts' from a former colony, but apart from that had no real idea. As it was, I fell in luuuurve with the place. Nothing prepared me for the sight over the harbour - it really is breathtaking. I don't think you could ever get bored of it. It is a busy place but I don't remember feeling flustered or hassled. You can go from air c...

Well, where was I? Was it Monday, or Tuesday. No, it was Wednesday, because I was on my way from Laos to Vietnam or was I? Anyway, (miss you mum!! x)So we had made it to the Vietnamese border: we were walking across this one. We did the 'one leg in each country' trick. Couldn't resist. The border control on the Vietnamese side was interesting. The guards were friendly - for some reason, I had been expecting hostility. They made a token effort of searc...

Many, many weeks ago, 2 young ladies by the names of Bennett and Bowles left the town of Chiang Mai. This departure filled them with much regret. They had grown accustomed to the place and its numerous distractions - coffee shops, jewellery courses, cookery courses, pad thai, massages, hair cuts...However, they travelled by omnibus further north until they finally reached a border. This is where our story begins...."It's got to be here""We'...

Hello Just some notes about what else we did in Chiang Mai... Had a massage - a traditional Thai massage which involves being pummelled and kneaded by a little Thai woman. A bit weird - especially when she twists you so that every vertebrae in you back clicks. I was thinking of doing a course in Thai massage, but it looks like hard work and I could imagine the results of doing something incorrectly would be quite major! So instead, I tried my hand at... Jewel...

Hello from Thailand We arrived in Bangkok weary and blurry eyed, dazzled by the shiny-ness of the new airport at 6am. We knew our time in Bangkok was limited (day and a half!) so the taxi route was our first insight into the city. Nice car, smoother roads than we have been used to. Needless to say, I was asleep in the first 5 minutes. Oops. Arrived at our accommodation Shanti Lodge (Shanti, Shanti, Shaaaantiiii, as we used to chant at the Ashram) and had a ...