Being back in England should have been the opportunity to catch up on the blog, but the words just never seemed to flow. This is from August, not sure of any more detail than that datewise. Everything was tinged was sadness for a journey over, like reading Michael Barrymore's "Back in Business". As I'm about to start my new job in 2 days and am looking forward to making a bit of a home in England again, I thought I'd give another go and write about the ...

OK, so I'm well behind. No point trying to hide it. Still, I'm back in the UK now (4 countries behind!) so have the combination of time to write and lack of interesting new things happening to me, so I'll pick up the narrative where I left off. Pandas. Again. After the panda prison in Kunming, I needed some quality time with these noble animals. Everyone makes fun of them for being lazy and too dumb to have sex to save their own species, but really the tale of t...

Being back in England should have been the opportunity to catch up on the blog, but the words just never seemed to flow. Everything was tinged was sadness for a journey over, like reading Michael Barrymore's "Back in Business". As I'm about to start my new job in 2 days and am looking forward to making a bit of a home in England again, I thought I'd give another go and write about the last 'big' trip we did - to Cambodia. There's still a whole month of ...

Aaahhh... this is never going to stop unless I break a leg or something and have to spend weeks in just one place. When I left off, I'd just completed the main bulk of my journey from Thailand to China. That was a car to Vientiene (Laos, 5 hours), bus to Luang Prabang (12 hours), bus to Luang Nam Tha (6-8 hours, can't remember now), bus to Mengla (China, 7-8 hrs), and now finally a sleeper bus to Kunming (12 hours). I've just been reading Bill Bryson's 'Neithe...

Another gap between updates, and I'm doing things quicker than I can find time to record them. I'm setting off towards Cambodia in a couple of hours, so it really is time to call it quits on Laos. There's also a bizarre time skew in many of these blogs because I've started writing about things which have happened now, then resumed a previous narrative. At this rate, in about a month I will jump over around 2 months to arrive back in the present. By that time the ...