2002-2005 (c) GetJealous.com, All rights reserved. http://www.getjealous.com/laurachristie/rss.xml Welcome to our web site. You can check out our diary entries, view our photos, or see our map by clicking the tabs at the top of the page. Also, why not leave a quick note on our message board, its great to hear from you. Nearly home time! Flying back to Heathrow on 1st April (no joke) look forward to seeing you all soon. http://www.getjealous.com/laurachristie http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=320017&go=laurachristie Kerala KovalamWe flew into Trivandrum airport late at night and picked up by a funky classic white Ambassador taxi with leather seats. Stayed at Greenshore apartments (920R) which we"d pre-booked to make sure we had somewhere decent to stay on arrival. Its an okay area, more of a stopping off point from the airport en route to the rest of Kerala if you"re avoiding the hubbub of crazy Tri... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=320017&go=laurachristie Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=284347&go=laurachristie Goodbye to the land of thai curries, tuk-tuk drivers and beautiful islands...Hello Malaysia. After a few dodgy asian border crossings in the past, waiting in line for your obligatory 30 stamps, the thai-malaysian one was a breeze, they even gave you few sweets to welcome you to the country...We're gonna like this place ! The plan was to try to get to the idyllic Perenthian islands just off t... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=284347&go=laurachristie Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=275191&go=laurachristie After crossing over the Friendship bridge on the Laos/Thailand boarder we made it to Udon Thani, basically a transit town for people making journeys to Bangkok much as we were but there is nothing remarkable to recommend this city. Worth a mention though is the Queen Hotel - anyone remember the horrible hotel from The Beach where the woman is washing the electricity? Well The Queen Hotel was about... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=275191&go=laurachristie Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=273054&go=laurachristie After hearing the horror stories about spending the best part of two sleepeless days in a long tail boat packed in like sardines sitting on plastic garden furniture chairs, we didn't think twice about booking a flight to fly from Chiang Mai into Laos with Lao Airlines, even if their safety recod is as dodgy as the watches in Bangkok ! Still, we made it in one piece and got the usual 12 stamps i... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=273054&go=laurachristie Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=244655&go=laurachristie Thank you to everyone for your Christmas wishes, hope you all had a great one and Santa brought you everything you wished for. We celebrated Christmas day Thai style by going to the Grand Palace, (well, its still a place of worship isn't it?). Its such an impressive complex of golden palaces and huge magnificent buildings including the Emerald Buddha in all his finery. We also went to see the ... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=244655&go=laurachristie Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=229445&go=laurachristie Vietnam is a lovely place and we're having a great time here, there is a french influence from the old colonial days so there is really nice food, especially bread (which Lenny is very happy about, and I can finally get normal tea with proper milk though was sort of getting used to drinking sickly sweet condensed milk by now). Lovely noodle soup - seems to be pronounced 'fur balls' so not exactly ... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=229445&go=laurachristie Sat, 2 Dec 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=229360&go=laurachristie SIEM REAP: Flew from Bali to Singapore and changed planes for the flight to Cambodia. What they didn't tell us is that they were flying north to Vietnam for a stop and then south again to Cambodia....long flight but 4 countries in one day isn't bad ! Bad for Laura thoughm as she couldn't get off the loo all day with a touch of "delhi belly". Arrive in Siem Reap and went through the whole "you ... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=229360&go=laurachristie Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=221509&go=laurachristie Arrived in Lombok from Singapore - could these two places be any more different ? Singapore is one of the cleanest, organised places we've ever seen. The metro system is spotless and it's illegal to chew chewing gum and eat any on public transport - they must get a shock when they go to the tube in London. Indonesia on the other hand can only be described as...basic. We had a bit of a white knu... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=221509&go=laurachristie Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=208996&go=laurachristie Cairns Just a stopping off point for us really, seemed like a good party town but we didn't spend much time here after dropping off the campervan and meeting up with the rest of our gang from the previous trip. Mission Beach Lovely quiet resort very close to the beach, no one was swimming at the time though so we didn't take a chance in case we encountered the deadly stingers. Went for a 10k ... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=208996&go=laurachristie Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=208995&go=laurachristie After all the advice we'd been given about not driving in remote parts of Australia we decided to go ahead and pick up our van anyway. (Managed to avoid picking up any psycho killer hitch hikers at least.) Bruce, our van was more comfy than it looked from the outside, enough room for two people at a push as long as you don't turn round too quickly. As part of the relocation deal we had up to six d... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=208995&go=laurachristie Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:00:00 GMT