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Love from Kirsty and Mark http://www.getjealous.com/kirstb http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2776082&go=kirstb Don't forget we've moved our blog to www.kathmanduandbeyond.com Head over there to check out new blog entries and subscribe on the new site to be notified of future posts.... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2776082&go=kirstb Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2769837&go=kirstb In a long-overdue move we have finally migrated our blog into what we hope will be a cleaner more user-friendly format. It should now be even easier to keep up to date with our travels and we hope to post more regularly. Because we've been switching over we're a bit behind but sign up to receive email alerts on the new blog as we will be posting more soon. We'll no longer be updating this site a... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2769837&go=kirstb Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2747063&go=kirstb On our recent 3 week travels through Vietnam, starting the day with a coffee, stopping en route for a fresh juice and finishing the day with a chilled glass of beer or two became a fast established routine to each day. Whilst it could be said that most of what we were quaffing is not particularly unique to Vietnam, the strength of the coffee and the cheapness of the beer inspired me to name my ... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2747063&go=kirstb Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2750103&go=kirstb Two months is about the limit in Thailand before you have to start extending visas and that sort of thing so when our time was up we decided Vietnam would be a good place to head for.  We both know Vietnam pretty well but there were a few areas that neither of us had visited so the trip we designed was a mishmash of destinations we liked and wanted to re-visit and others that we had not seen on p... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2750103&go=kirstb Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2742466&go=kirstb Did we (well Mark) say "our final month in Asia"?! ..... Well, my motto for one is "never say never" and after 2 months in the UK, we find ourselves back where is increasingly becoming our second home, Chiang Mai. In truth we've been here almost 2 months now and are hitting the road again in less than a week so I thought it was high time for a long overdue update ......We do fe... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2742466&go=kirstb Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2722486&go=kirstb I know we have an annoying habit of not putting anything on the blog for weeks at a time and then throwing on two or three long ones at once so I will endeavour to try and keep this one short and sweet. After our enjoyable stint in Sri Lanka we took an early morning flight to Kuala Lumpur but didn't have a very clear plan of what to do next. Rather than stay in the capital however, we decided t... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2722486&go=kirstb Sun, 22 Jul 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2721733&go=kirstb Often on our travels we have given ourselves too long in any one country and ended up kicking our heels somewhat and so we decided on this trip to Sri Lanka to allow only what we thought was the necessary amount of time to see and do the things we had in mind. But as sod's law would have it another 4 to 5 days would have been perfect and meant that we needn't have had to sit there on our last nigh... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2721733&go=kirstb Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2721415&go=kirstb After 2 months in Thailand, most of it in Chiang Mai, it was time for another little adventure. Much of Asia is deluged by monsoon rains at this time of the year so dry adventures can be tricky. Indonesia is the obvious choice but neither of us felt the pull there - I think after the great trip we did time last year we were worried it would be hard to beat. And let's face it, Indonesians can be ha... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2721415&go=kirstb Wed, 4 Jul 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2709627&go=kirstb Arriving into the fabled city of Kashgar brought mixed feelings – disappointment that Central Asia was over all too quickly and dare I say it but a bit of comfort that we were back on familiar ground. It wasn't that many weeks earlier that we were bemoaning China (you may recall Mark's previous blog) and now, much sooner than we had anticipated, we found ourselves back there! Our hostel was... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2709627&go=kirstb Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2708833&go=kirstb To pick up where Kirsty left off, we sat around in Osh for a couple of days hoping that another set of travellers would come through so that we could join forces and once again try and get into Tajikistan but our luck on this trip to date had been terrible (see earlier blogs) and of course nobody turned up. In itself this wasn't a complete disaster as we could have waited even longer but there was... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2708833&go=kirstb Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT