This is the 1st ‘episode’ of another of 'our' travels. The collective ‘episodes’ describe our journey from our arrival in Munich (known locally as München), Germany (3rd week of June) through to our departure from Central Europe at Prague (in late July) 2010. This ‘episode’ describes our journey to München, and our departure into Bavaria in a hired car a week later. As always, if you want to 'see' more detail in an accompanying picture, click it to enlarge. We've attached a few pics that give you a flavour of our journey, and some 'flow over' past the dialogue. It´s all a bit surreal. We departed home on Friday after enjoying a family meal on the Thursday (to celebrate a birthday). The evenings had become cool at home so the gas fire had made the evening ... read more

This is the 4th ‘episode’ of another of 'our' travels. All the ‘episodes’ describe our journey from our arrival in Vientiane (capital of Laos) in mid March 2010, through to our intention to 'arrive' in Hanoi (capital of Vietnam) at end April. This ‘episode’ describes our journey south from LiJiang, through DaLi, across to KunMing, then further south to TongHai and Jianshui (all in Yunnan, China). As always, if you want to 'see' more detail in an accompanying picture, click it to enlarge. Please note that we've tried to 'attach' or 'anchor' photo's applicable to the text. At the end of the text, we've added a heap of other photos that help depict our journey; Cheers South from LiJiang - an overview Episode 1 described our travels from Vientiane through Laos to China, and into the ... read more

This is the 2nd ‘episode’ of another of 'our' travels. All the ‘episodes’ describe our journey from our arrival in Vientiane (capital of Laos) in mid March 2010, through to our intention to 'arrive' in Hanoi (capital of Vietnam) at end April. This ‘episode’ describes our journey from our arrival in JingHong (Yunnan) to our departure to LiJiang (in the north of Yunnan). As always, if you want to 'see' more detail in an accompanying picture, click it to enlarge. Revisiting JingHong Episode 1 described our travels from Vientiane through Laos to China, and into the provincial capital of the Xishuangbanna region of Yunnan - Jing Hong. We also described how we departed Jing Hong the same day and ventured into the backblocks of Yunnan - to Meng Hun, Meng Hai and Meng Lian (where we ... read more

Caerdydd (Wales) to London via Lincoln Overview This commentary describes the last 10 days in our month long journey - that part of the journey from Wales to London via the Midlands, Lincolnshire, and Oxfordshire. As we’d explained in our previous two ‘travelogues’, (1st) we’d arrived at Stansted Airport and travelled to Cambridge for a couple of days, before collecting a car and heading north-east to Norwich via Ely - after which we turned south to London, and (2nd), travelled on via Wiltshire (the Cotswolds), Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Gloucestershire to Wales. This segment of our journey takes us from Caerdydd (Cardiff), across the 'top' of the range - the Brecon Beacons NP - through mid-Wales, into Herefordshire - the English Midlands - centring on Birmingham. We then travelled through various Midland counties to Lincol ... read more

Stansted to London This ‘travelogue’ describes that part of our journey from arrival at Stansted Airport (nth London) to our ‘entry’ to London (some 6 days later) via Cambridgshire, Norfolk (East Anglia) and Suffolk. As always, if you want to 'see' more detail in an accompanying picture, click it to enlarge. In Flight We departed KL airport about an hour late - around 4pm. The AirAsia A340 plane had been procured from Air Canada and was pained in the livery of a Canadian football team (doesn‘t quite look right at KL airport). The pilot announced we’d be travelling over Iran, Khazekastan (or one of those ’stans), the Black Sea, Holland and into Stansted. He advised that the flight would take 14 hours, and most would be in daylight (sadly he wasn’t too good on that one). ... read more