WOW, if we ever get this sent off it will be a miracle!!! This blog has been in the works for an entire year......yes, we were in Val D'Isere December '06 - May '07 (meak laugh) Sooo following our Christmas in England, we flew to Val D'Isere in the french alps to start work as chalet maids in a 5 star chalet...our first lot of clients were arriving the next day so let just say we were thrown in the deep end!!!...enough said, despite neither of us having ever worked in hospitality before we managed to charm our way through the [View Full Entry]

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After three months of wearing fisherman pants and colourful scarves, sweaty pits a sad but constant feature (just slightly, we are ladies!) and living on only a few dollars a day we boarded the plane from Delhi to London….with just a week out from Christmas it was definatly a fun place to be headed! Arriving at Heathrow Airport, we ran out into the waiting arms (a real ‘Love Actually’ moment) of our two favourite brits’ Jodie Read and Chris Whiteman, a video camera rolling….. We spent the next week based in Jodie’s hometown of Guildford enjoying clean [View Full Entry]

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You know those really annoying people that travel through places like India, entering the country as a tidy Westerner, yet after months of touring depart a scruffy hippy, claiming that their lives had been changed, they’d discovered some unknown spiritual dimension, and they would never be the same again….?! Well, we can’t go as far as to say we succumbed completely to the Eastern attire (Emma does want to work for Vogue after-all!) but as cheesy as it sounds, in some small way our lives probably will…..never be the same again. We endured the most delightful - [View Full Entry]

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‘Hello Madams, where are you from?’ New Zealand ‘Aaah Switzerland, that is a very nice place…’ No, NEW ZEAland ‘Aaaah very nice also, Cricket! You know Fleming?’ Yeah Stephen, he’s our neighbour. ‘What are your names?’ Emma and Olivia. ‘Aaaah beautiful names, they are Indian names you know…’ Really? ‘Where are your husbands? Why are you not married? When are you getting married? I have a son who is not married? Would you like to buy my pashminas?, I give you a special price, those ones you have [View Full Entry]

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Ok...its our lowest point yet, we'd love to tell you we went to Vietnam for a true cultural and life enriching experience, that we studied the amazing history and delved into a different way of life...but if we did it would be a lie...because Vietnam for us really became the land where we turned into fast-talking. high fashion designers...and spent a week in beautful Hoi An having the most AMAZING clothes made...just for us! In our short space of time, however, we did learn a lot about this country...we loved it but at times it was definately a little trying, lets [View Full Entry]

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We'd heard rumours and whispers from other travellers that Laos was the "hidden treasure" of south east asia...and a after week spent here we discovered this is truly the best way to describe this stunning country which sits on the eastern border of Thailand... Chiang Khong: We arrived in this border town late in the afternoon, with a mini-van full of friends ready to be made. We all bonded that evening when we stumbled across the town's annual Temple Festival which was hilarious! Before we knew it we were whisked on to the dance floor, ribboned lays sprung around our necks [View Full Entry]

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Fun times in Chiang Mai, North Thailand...Oh Yes!! After three weeks in the south of Thailand getting our tan on, buying way to many gorgeous clothes for two girls supposedly "roughing it!" and lazing around reading books we were reading for a bit of adventure...and 36 hours (on a bus!!) later we were in the B.M.P. Resident in Chiang Mai. DAY ONE...Happy Birthday Livvy!!!...25 today so we had a day of fun, chocolate for breakfast!, a day of exploring around beautiful Chiang Mai then two b'day cakes in the evening (one from Em and one from our hostel)....Livvy also gave the [View Full Entry]

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Our journey began a week late - thanks to a coup in Bangkok! What timing! So, after officially the most tearful farewell that Auckland airport has ever seen, we couldn't have anticipated what we were about to be thrown into. Bangkok. The beautiful mess that it is, was laid out before us in all it's glory. They say that this place is one of the most ecclectic one will ever come across, and ecclectic doesn't even start to explain it. Ancient temples rise in the shadow of space-age shopping malls, soaring skyscrapers tower over tumbleweed hovels, cafes and restaurants are surrounded [View Full Entry]

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*Please check out our Bangkok blog previous to this... South Thailand, the place of beautiful white sand beaches, crystal clear waters, tailor made suits, a little bit of monsoon rain and Love Songs till midnight....actually 24 hours a day! Route; Bangkok to Phuket by plane Phuket to Ao Nang, Krabi by the scariest mini-van driver in history - yeah you pump those brakes! Ao Nang to Koh Phi Phi in wild monsoon rain by boat, not a fun journey Koh Phi Phi to Koh Samui by boat - bus - boat Phuket; 5 nights, 6 days Ravaged little lobsters. # Note [View Full Entry]

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