On Wednesday, the day after arriving in Mandalay, from Bagan, I travelled a 9 hour train ride north east into remote Myanmar (and 15 back!). Overall I travelled for 24 hours without sleep with quite a few ups and downs. It was pretty mental. When I finally arrived at the hotel, I regretted taking the…
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I have seen more new and interesting things in Myanmar in the last 2 1/2 weeks than anywhere else, and I love how you just don’t know what you are going to see next!! For example here are a few snaps from a typical day on the roads; I found the people of Myanmar interesting…
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Hey there! It has been a while since we last posted. The reason? Well, Myanmar is so full on (good and bad) that there really has’t been a moment to bust out the laptop, get online and write about what we have done. This is a good thing, as we have been so busy living, and not…
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Well. I wanted to get off the beaten track on this trip and today Sheree and I got off that F-kin path alright… Yes we have been up to a fair bit since Koh Phangan but today was so unreal I want to write it all down while it is still fresh and really, Bangkok…
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Note: Sheree = purple Matt = green Farewell Thai islands, it’s been a blast, you have taught me how to dive, relax and of course how to party. You will forever hold a special place in my heart! We have now left the islands, this last leg of our journey involved catching a seemingly overbooked ferry from Koh Phangan…
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Hi, Sheree here ☺ There has definitely been a nice change of pace since our last post, so here is a quick update on what we have been up to. I am sitting writing this blog in a bar on the beach of the island paradise of Koh Phi Phi Don. We love this place…
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Hello from Krabi Thailand! So we have just completed another fairly long leg. We can’t believe how far we have travelled since leaving Singapore only a few days ago! Our journey has taken us through some real gritty and poor backwaters, where we have literally turned to one another and said the name of our…
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Hi Everyone, We are now in Penang after a long 14 hour long and F-ing cold train trip here. A quick summary of our goings on in Singapore follows: Basically we wanted to check out some of the sites in Singapore that are worth visiting. These aren’t cheap but hey, you gotta make the most…
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So here we are in warm, muggy Singapore after a nearly sleepless night in our hostel (it seems that the thing to do at 1am is rummage through plastic bags and then snooze 10 times through your alarms early the next morning), but hey that’s what you get when your on a budget in a…
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