RobinAndLucy

After a busy day with everything seeming to go wrong we managed to sort everything out and 14 hours later arrived here in phnom penh... its very hot and very busy... we shall update the blog with the past week or so's happenings soon - but now its late and we're tired so just a quick one to say - New country and we're safe and happy. love and miss you all lots.... read more

Ok now we finally have the proper chance to update our blog - I believe the last proper update was written around the time of Miss Teen Thailand 2009... an exciting day all round... since then we have travelled on into Laos and have carried on having a fantastic time... from where we left off last time I’ll fill in all the main bits... From Chiang Mai we took a kinda ting to Lampang on some bus or other which took a while... It looked really close on the map, about 1cm away... When we arrived we held up a Sawngthaw (a glorified pickup with benches) and searched the city for a place to stay... After an hour or so we discovered TT&T get hao which was a sight for sore feet... Nice place, nice owner, ... read more

Forgot to add the most surreal thing about the shopping centre... Miss Teen Thailand is currently being hosted about 10 feet from us... they stand the talk they do a little twirl then sing - until they get buzzed off. The prize is a motorbike. It's great!!! x ... read more

Further to our previous entry, I have been reminde of two equally amusing incidents: The first occured as we ate out ant infested breakfast as Garden ket-hao in Chiang Rai. (We were still recovering, at this point from, the ruccus of orchestral music as we lay in that dubious place between consciousness and oblivion. Fortuantely for Lucy, she has not seen the original Wicker Man film and therefore did not make the utterly terrifying connection. She had not a clue what was going on as I quickly bolted the door.) Finishing my water-egg, i looked up to see a rather comical figure stroll into the resteraunt area singing in fashion that I can affiliate with only two people in my knowledge: Antony Powell and Brian Blessed. I could not make head or tail of this character. ... read more

So we left Pai and got back to Chiang Mai spending a little too much in the night market. I bought some ace tee-shirts I have to say and lucy bought a lovely dress. Altogther we spent 1000baht give or take which isn't too bad considering all the pretty fairy lights in the myriad stalls guiding as astray... Now here comes a frustrated era in this Asiatic Odessy.... One I like to refer to as 'The Awkward Age'... Chinag Rai was in lights for me. I imagined it to be Chiang Mai with a more relaxed atmosphere and friendly locals gving us money and food and stuff for free. Beautiful teak rooms, 100metre bamboo, gorgeous cuisine and flush toilets... (I'm building it up for the fall here which I realise isn't entirely fair, but for the ... read more

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Hello all... We are sat in an internet cafe in Chiang Mai - the rain has just stopped - a short but lovely burst! After a very odds nights sleep - where we went to bed at 9 - then woke again at midnight - and after sitting talking and reading decided we werent sleepy anymore... we ventured out amazed that it was so light at 4.30am - we went onto khao san road in search for breakfast and a route to chiang mai - we found a lovely fresh omlette with chives and rice... then bought a few snacky things and headed back to new joes... on arrival back at new joes we found out that our clocks had been completely wrong - both of our mobiles had auto updated to the wrong time and ... read more

Finally here! We made it. The flights were ok... I slept the majority on the time - ocassioanly waking to the smell of another curry... Robin struggled to sleep and by the time we arrived here in Bankok was absolutely shattered... On Cat's recommendation we got a taxi from the airport - a VERY scarey experience - where the taxis over took buses on the inside on a hard shoulder of a six lane motor way - but we got here to new joes guesthouse - dumped our bags and had a nice cold beer and a pad thai each.... we then managed to get a good few hours sleep before having a bit of a mooch -(and some more pad thai) along khao san road. its very hot and busy and noisy here - we ... read more