http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Emmet/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Emmet en-us Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:42:27 +0000 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:42:27 +0000 I hope you'll excuse the length of this one but due to being unencumbered with such annoyances as work and having a 6 week mad dash to see the entire country we did get up to rather a lot. I assure my faithful readers the next blog will return to the usual neglectful brevity. The Mauri driver dropped us off at the Jail around midnight stiffling a chuckle at our answer to his usual touristcu http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/blog-143231.html From the moment I was picked up at the airport I could see this was going to be a different kind of trip. The daily trucking of backpack and sundry from one sockwhiffing backpacker dorm to the next beans and toast and takeout chicken the same 8 buck goonbags being held to new sunburnt faces every day were to be left aside in earnest while I checked in to the Delmont currently being pur http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/blog-128829.html Here's the last couple of months in WA briefly...I spent a week in Perth to begin with which was about a week more than I could afford and eight days more than I had money for. Perth is a nice city and coming from Singapore it felt very open airy and free. The temperature was a bit of a surprise although it has warmed up a fair bit in the last couple of months. A week spent in a backpackers visit http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Pemberton/blog-106605.html Due to a mixture of technical difficulties and pure lazinessneglect I have not uploaded any photos since Vientiane about a 2 months ago so this will be a mammoth blog covering Cambodia Vietnam second trip to Thailand and Malaysia.In brief The rest of my trip through Laos was cool someimes I was the only white person in town and it made for a few interesting situations and a total lack of com http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/blog-86152.html Crossing into Laos it is immediately obvious how different things are to Thailand This place is excellent I have really come to love it and will probably spend more time here than in any other part of Southeast Asia.Houy Xai was the border crossing town in the north. After spending a quiet night there and missing the world cup final didn't really care we got the 2 day slow boat to Louang Phra http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/blog-76886.html Well I have finally got around to starting a proper blog Bangkok to begin with I think The trip over was filled with anticipation and once we hit Bangkok all the nervous excitement mixed with Singa and overflowed into a great first night out in budget city Koh San Road. We met a few Irish guys who had been on the same flight as us... to be the first of many far far too many. In fact I'll ren http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-72362.html