This is the 2nd ‘episode’ in another of 'our' travel experiences. The collective ‘episodes’ describe our journey from our arrival in London (2nd week of June) and across the 'ditch' to Ireland for a few weeks before a return home in mid July. This ‘episode’ describes our few days in Dublin, and our foray westwards and into Northern Ireland (Great Britain) before meandering down the rugged and wild west coast of Ireland. 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. Dublin. The end of the first 'episode' had us arriving latish on Sunday into Dublin sunshine; which to that date had been a rarity. It appears that ... read more

Myanmar Part 5 This 'blog' is the fifth (and last) describing our time in Myanmar (Burma to some). If you missed earlier 'episodes' in this series, you can find #1 here , #2 here , #3 here , and #4 here . As posts in the previous 'episodes' noted, when in Myanmar, we had the 'trouble' of very slow internet speeds. Given this, we were unable to add pictures to the previous 'blogs' in this series. Interestingly, when we were at the Yangon airport, we were able to access the internet with very fast speeds. It appears that v... read more

Myanmar Part 3 This 'blog' is the third describing our time in Myanmar (Burma to some). If you missed the first one, you can find it #1 here . And, the second one can be found #2 here . We've previously described the horrors of trying to use modern technology at 'dial-up' speed in Myanmar. We initially wrote this 'blog' while in Myanmar, and published it without pictures. Since our return to Australia, we've uploaded pictures to show aspects of our adventure. As always, if you want to 'see' more detail in an accompanying picture, Left Hand 'click' on it to enlarge. Tuesday 8th March 2011. ...dep... read more

Myanmar Part 1 This 'blog' initiates our series describing our time in Myanmar (Burma to some). When entering Yangon (known by the British as Rangoon - a term we prefer), we immediately knew we'd stepped into another 'space'. It was not until we started to 'do' things that we realised how different the 'reality' of this nation is compared to neighbouring states. We figure that the relative poverty and friendliness is sort of like the Khmer of Cambodia, and the business way of life a bit like the way the Han of Vietnam do things. When working, the 'dial-up' speed of the internet is unbelievably slow. And, the military junta have blocked so many websites that it's almost impossible to legitimately access anything from western websites. But, as in other repressed nations, the local 'tech-heads' have ... read more

South-West Thailand This is the first of a 2 part 'travel-blog' describing our time in Southern Thailand. When planning our sojourn to Myanmar, we decided to also include time in southern Thailand as we'd not been to this region before. Generally, as we live beside a globally 'world class' beach, we've not gone searching for beach locations to 'adventure'. That said, so many people give glowing reports of southern Thailand, we felt we'd be foolish to not go visit. To keep the 'blog' to a reasonable length, we've made it into 2 parts; this part which focuses on the 'south-west' part of southern Thailand - the Krabi & Ao Nang region - and a second part that centre's on the south-eastern side of southern Thailand - Nakhon Si Thammarat. As always, if you want to 'see' ... read more