Magical Melaka This 'travel-blog' describes our time in Melaka, Malaysia. When planning our sojourn to Thailand and Myanmar, we decided to also include a short 'side trip' to Melaka; not having been there for several years and always promising ourselves we'd return 'some day'. As always, if you want to 'see' more detail in an accompanying picture, click it to enlarge. Thursday 10 Feb. We departed Coolangatta airport (Australia) early for an 8 hour flight. Knowing we'd arrive about 3pm local time, we (pre)organised a rent-a-car. We chose not to use public transport options here as we figured we'd have our 'fill' later when journeying through Myanmar. Not long after arriving, and a short busride to KLIA to pick up the car, we were zooming along the freeway in the Skoda (an 'upgrade') towards Melak... read more

This is the 4th ‘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 travel after returning the hire car in München - our use of a Eurail pass to 'explore' more of Austria before heading into the Czech Republic (via a brief visit to Slovakia). 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. Just ‘click’ on page 2, scroll down past the text to view. A brief overview of our journey so far. ... read more

This is the 2nd ‘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 little sojourn from Germany; through a little of Austria, into northern Italy and over the passes to Switzerland and Liechtenstein before heading back into Germany. 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. Just ‘click’ on page 2, scroll down past the text to view. A brief overview of our journey so far. Episode 1 had us landing in Munich ... read more

This is the 5th ‘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 Jianshui to XinJie (Yunnan), and then into Vietnam. 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. You will probably have to go to page 2, and slide to the bottom to see all. Cheers South from Jianshui - an overview Episode 1 described our travels from ... read more

This is the 3rd ‘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 north from LiJiang to the Tiger Leaping Gorge, then onto HaBa, and through to Gyeltang before returning to LiJiang (all in Yunnan, China). As always, if you want to 'see' more detail in an accompanying picture, click it to enlarge. Please also note that the photo's don't track with the text. The Tiger leaping Gorge photos dominate. North from LiJiang - an overview 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 ... read more