Today, I went on a wee day trip to Rabbit Island (or Koh Tonsay as it is otherwise known). Where is Rabbit Island, I hear you ask. I will tell you. Rabbit Island is an island (schocker) about 4km off the coast of Cambodia and makes an ideal day trip from the coastal town of...
Some things to do in Hoi An, innit: Get a bespoke suit made Or shirts, or a dress, or pretty much anything else you can think of. Hoi An is chock full of tailors, some are better than others, and some are straight up terrible, so do your research, speak to a few tailors,...
Travel is slowly but surely turning me into a middle aged version of myself. The chances of me going out of my way to cycle to a pottery village at home are slim to none, but that’s exactly what I did last week while visiting Hoi An. And here’s the really sick thing – I...
I’ve spent the last week in Hoi An, a town on the coast of central Vietnam that is as pretty as a picture. Hoi An is so beautiful that I decided to stay there for a week, and part of the reason I like it so much is because it reminds of Luang Prabang, where...
Well, they may or may not have had sex in the dorm room last night – my head was covered entirely by my pillow so that I wouldn’t hear anything that I didn’t want to hear. So this is what happened. At around 3.30 in the early morning, an obnoxious German backpacker comes into our...
While visiting temples and ruins bores me to ears, I really love visiting museums when I’m in a city. The Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi has more than its fair share of museums, so whether you want to learn about the ancient history of the country, about the various hill tribes and ethnic groups, or...
When I arrived in Hanoi, I was more than a little taken aback. I am a total city boy at heart, born and raised in London, and it’s not often that a city makes me feel unsettled but that’s what happened when I arrived in the Vietnamese capital. The place is crammed full of people...
Without a shadow of a doubt, the most popular and impressive attraction in Luang Prabang is Kuang Si Falls. During the six weeks that I spent in Luang Prabang, the only day that a tuk tuk driver didn’t ask if I wanted to go to the waterfalls was the day that I was bed ridden...
I recently told you about all of the getting wet-ness New Year celebrations in the streets of Luang Prabang, but aside from all of the water guns and buckets of water, there is one major event in the town that draws a massive crowd of locals and tourists every year, and that’s the Lao New...
Spending Lao New Year in Luang Prabang is some of the best fun I have ever had in my life – no exaggeration. For a number of days, I’ve been walking around in a drunken daze, squirting people with water, being doused with buckets of water myself, wishing ‘Sabaidee Pi Mai!’ to everybody on the...
Whenever I check into a hostel, I have twitches of envy at the backpackers around me who don’t have to worry about responding to an email from a client or drafting a business proposal while on the road. Most of these backpackers have either saved a load of money at home or have sold some...
I feel as though I need to make a wee apology to my readers, as this blog has been spectacularly un-gay of late, particularly during my time in Laos. When I was in Bangkok at the beginning of the year, there was a sprawling and diverse gay scene for me to explore, but since then...
