Where the devil is Pip??
 So, this is the place where you can come to keep yourself up to speed with my round the world trip & just generally make yourself jealous of everything I am up to. Now I certainly cannot promise to write daily, and even weekly sounds like an unrealistic target to me, but I can promise you this, I WILL WRITE...so watch this space... |
My latest 5 diary entries
| 7th Nov 2009 - 11th Nov 2009 | ||||
| Ko Tao - a tropical island paradise (...supposedly!) | ||||
| After an overnight bus from Bangkok I find myself on the west coast of the southern gulf of Thailand waiting to board a boat to an island called Ko Tao. What the Bangkok travel agency had failed to tell me when I fo... | ||||
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448 Words | 22 Reads |  | Read more | |
| 4th Nov 2009 - 6th Nov 2009 | ||||
| Back in Bangkok & too ill to enjoy it | ||||
| So my journey now takes me back to where it all started, Bangkok. And despite my insistence that I would not be getting there via a small propeller plane (which flight a lot of the routes into and out of Laos) I ge... | ||||
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729 Words | 18 Reads | | Read more | |
| 2nd Nov 2009 - 4th Nov 2009 | ||||
| Luang Prabang | ||||
| So I get a bus out of Vang Vieng to Luang Prabang - which is about a 6-7 hour journey. 6 hours... EASY, I think to myself, I'll have a nice little bus nap. But infact less than 5 miles down the road and one of the... | ||||
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419 Words | 27 Reads | | Read more | |
| 29th Oct 2009 - 2nd Nov 2009 | ||||
| Vang Vieng - Paying the price for fun! | ||||
| So I get up to catch a bus to Vang Vieng (3-4 hours) upon which I meet some friendly English guys (Jason & Luke) who will provide me some company for the next few days. Vang Vieng is a small sleepy little town b... | ||||
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802 Words | 50 Reads | | Read more | |
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| 27th Oct 2009 - 29th Oct 2009 | ||||
| Vientiane - Steak & another massage | ||||
| After a week spent in and around Hanoi it was about time I moved onwards to Laos. The downside to this was that it would involve a 22 hour bus ride first (or an expensive flight in a tiny propeller plane which I did... | ||||
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461 Words | 39 Reads | | Read more | |
