I had to write a post titled with that sentence, it was inevitable. Phu Quoc has been treating me well, it is a pleasantly undeveloped island and even though there is several resorts on the island, it is still far away from Koh Tao and other Thai islands. The town I’m staying at still has […]
Colombo Bandaranaike
$3 for a teabag in a cup of hot water – bit excessive for an airport in a Third World country but at least the wifi is good. General free wifi at the airport is a bit on the unusable side and what would modern day man do – all unconnected for a whole 2.5h […]
Pai
In the last weeks I spent a lot of time in cities. Time for a change. This is the view from my Bungalow near the river in Pai. Pai is a small town three hours north-west of Chiang Mai just 30km from the border to Myanmar/Burma. The road that leads there is famous – it […]
Albania
Having spent a little more time in Montenegro than initially anticipated, I had to check for alternative ways to get to Thessaloniki (flying out on the 7th). One option would have been a flight from Podgorica but that would have taken 5-6 hours with a stopover in Belgrade. Not too tempting. In Ulcinj I learned […]
KL extended
Yesterday afternoon was when my flight to Bali was scheduled to leave. Instead of being on it, I was lying in bed, pondering about whether I should just hang on or go see a doctor at some point in the near future. By that time I had been down with rather bad diarrhoea for a […]
Trekking in Nepal: Conclusion
When I arrived in Nepal, I had close to no clue of what there was to do in the country – as per usual. I knew there was some cool trekking to be done but the details of that eluded me. First enquiries brought a bit of a shock. A trek of 5-7 days was […]