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...
What kind of horrendous travel blogging cliché have I become? A set of sunset photos? I know, I know. But I need to suck it up and embrace that part of me that is blown away by a perfect sunset no matter how corny it is. So, last weekend I took a side trip from...
At home in London, I am more than a little bit shit at keeping on top of my finances. But I knew before strapping on my backpack and setting off for Asia, that I would have to be a little more responsible with my spending in order to give this backpacking thing a decent shot....
I wish that it wasn’t the case, but because I work at the same time as I travel, I am a slave to that digital mistress – wifi. To get my work done, I pretty have much have to stay in guesthouses that have wifi, but staying in your room all day is no fun,...
As I wander across south-east Asia, I am experiencing a love/hate relationship with the all pervasive night markets, which seem to exist in every village, town and city. In theory, market culture is awesome – it brings people from the community together, locals and tourists eat and shop side by side, and it allows people...
If I hadn’t have booked a ticket to visit Kerala in India in December 2011, there is no way that I would be travelling now. There are some trips that resonate so deeply with you, that they can completely change the way you think about travel, and make you assess parts of your own character...
