http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Livvy-Em/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Livvy Em en-us Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:45:42 +0000 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:45:42 +0000 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 laughSooo 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Rh-ne-Alpes/Val-d-Is-re/blog-192733.html 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 Londonhellip.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 lsquoLove Actually http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-161659.html 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 theyrsquod discovered some unknown spiritual dimension and they would never be the same againhellip. Well we canrsquot go as far as to say we succumbed completely to the Eas http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Kerala/Kochi-/blog-161423.html 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 fasttalking. high fashion designers...and spent a week in beautful Hoi An having the most AMAZING http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/South-Central-Coast/Hoi-An/blog-107918.html lsquoHello Madams where are you fromrsquo New Zealand lsquoAaah Switzerland that is a very nice placehelliprsquo No NEW ZEAland lsquoAaaah very nice also Cricket You know Flemingrsquo Yeah Stephen hersquos our neighbour. lsquoWhat are your namesrsquo Emma and Olivia. lsquoAaaah beautiful names they are Indian names you knowhelliprsquo Really lsquoWhere are y http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/blog-161419.html 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 KhongWe arrived in this border town late in the afternoon with a minivan full of friends ready to be made. We all bonded that eve http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/blog-102367.html Fun times in Chiang Mai North Thailand...Oh YesAfter 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-101793.html 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 dayRoute Bangkok to Phuket by planePhuket to Ao Nang Krabi by the scariest minivan driver in history yeah you pump those brakesAo Nang to Koh Phi Phi in wild http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Phuket/blog-98458.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-93508.html