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 Lincolnshire. ... 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

Hello This is another of 'our' travel stories. It describes our journey from our arrival in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand in April 2009, as we journey east through northern Laos and on to Vietnam. In this 'blog', we 'connect' many of the emails we sent while away and add further material to make it a comprehensive 'whole' of our journey. We write of our travel enjoyment/s within part of northern Thailand, our travel overland to Laos and our involvement with the wonderful adventure known as the "Gibbon Experience", our time in and around Luang Nam Tha, and our journey to the World Heritage city of Luang Prabang for the Laotian New Year festival known as Pii Mai Laos. The story continues by depicting our departure from Luang Prabang in a slow river boat up part ... read more

Hello This is another travel story by Judy & Bruce Originally, we published this story in our 'Vietnam - Cambodia Journey' blog (which was one journey). But, with two countries, and a heap of photo's, we've seperated the material into two stories. We entered Hanoi in northern Vietnam in late October 2008, and followed the Banana Pancake Trail around the north of Vietnam and then down highway 1A to Saigon. If interested, you can find that blog here . Largely because we were in a mindset of Cambodia when we departed Saigon, we will 'commence' this 'Cambodia' blog from the time we departed Saigon. From Saigon We had stayed only one night at Saigon. We'd decided that after being 'up country' the big hectic city might be too muc... read more