Nervousness, apprehension, excitement. These are but only three of the words which can describe our feelings as we approached the run up to the countdown of the beginning of our trip last week. 8 months travelling around Asia, a region which we both love and have visited on a few occasions, but feel we still need to scratch much deeper than just the surface. And now the day is here! After months and months of planning, researching, saving, packing up our flat and belongings and saying goodbye to family and friends, we are sitting in the Virgin Clubhouse Lounge at Heathrow airport waiting for our 1st class 12 hour flight to Tokyo! Thanks to the air miles Scott has racked up over the years by flying to San Francisco for work we were able to upgrade ... read more

Although an island we had visited on our travels before, the weather then was pretty much torrential rain the whole time so we were both excited to be going back to Samui. We had originally planned to explore a bit more of the island this time, however, as we were on such a short time frame and arriving in the middle of Songkran, we again based ourselves in Chewang. Our flight arrived from Bangkok on time to probably the smallest and cutest airport either of us had ever seen, the weather was glorious and as we waited for our luggage we couldn't wait to get to our hotel and onto the beach. After a short delay the luggage started coming round the small conveyor belt and after a while out came the super soakers with their ... read more

Hooray, we were finally back in the land of smiles! After deliberating for a few weeks on where to go on our next two week holiday, we got a great deal on some flights to Bangkok and couldn't wait to get back to Thailand, probably our favourite country, so planned an itinerary that would re-visit some of our favourite places from 2010. First stop was Chiang Mai (CM) in the North of the country, and after a long but good flight with Thai Airways we collected our bags in Bangkok and checked in for our short Air Asia flight to CM. On our previous visit we were mid way through a 4 month trip so stayed in a budget guesthouse, but as this was a holiday we decided to treat ourselves to a lovely hotel called ... read more

We arrived in Mumbai in the evening on January 3rd after a short flight from Goa and headed outside to get a taxi, where the chaos and poverty of this huge city was evident straight away. It was dark by the time we got a taxi but we could clearly see the massive slums we were driving through, with people sleeping on the dirty streets, dogs and children sharing water, and people begging. Checking the taxi doors were locked, the driver slammed on the brakes when a fight broke out on the road in front of us and someone went flying across the bonet of the battered car. Sleepy Goa this was not. We had underestimated the sheer size of Mumbai and almost 2 hours later finally arrived in South Mumbai in the Causeway area where ... read more

After a great few days in San Francisco, it was time to board our flight to Las Vegas, where we were meeting up with both of Scott’s brothers and their girlfriends for 3 days of partying. Vic’s visit was a surprise to them, they all thought she was at home in London while Scott was working in San Fran and then visiting Vegas on his own for a few days! But as the the girls had been asking her to please come to Vegas for months we knew they would be happily surprised. We landed about 11am after the short flight and got a cab from the airport to the strip where we had splashed out and were staying at the new Cosmopolitan hotel, located centre strip between the Bellagio and Aria. There is nothing like ... read more