tim&chhay

We are relaxing and recharging on the sleepy Isle of Wight at the moment. We have our hands on our trusty laptop and are putting the finishing touches to our portfolios ready to enter the brave new world of paid employment! Excessive pints at the yacht club last night limited our productivity today but we [...]

We are currently ensconced in Bethnal Green, London. Flight from KL was eneventful though long (allowing me to catch up on more than my required fill of trashy movies) and after a requisite breakdown on the tube we were pretty tired by the time we arrived at our friends place.
We are sorting out a few [...]

We enjoyed the feel of Hanoi quite a lot, if not the sales tactics of the locals. As aficionados of alleyways Hanoi was our paradise, with little streets teeming with life fronted by tall skinny houses, french villas, intriguing passageways leading to courtyards and other mysterious spaces. Shops and restaurants occupied the most minute spaces [...]

Halong Bay was quite spectacular, though not quite as beautiful or isolated as ‘Indochine‘ had led us to believe. That may have had to do with the fact we were on a boat with 14 other people (the bay can only be visited with organised tours) and that there were about 50 other ’same, same, [...]

Nursing a sore backside, we are currently nestled away in Hanoi’s Old Quater with a million other tourists. Makes quite a change from our previous locale of Sam Neua, in the wilds of Laos where there were a grand total of six foreigners (and that was a busy day apparently).

Having survived a 10 hour night [...]

We are currently engaged in mental and physical preparation for a night bus trip through the back woods of Laos – lots of meditation to block out Lao pop at full volume and yoga to fit into the most miniscule seats imaginable and try to sleep… and those couple of Beer Laos for internal fortitude [...]

This post is coming to you from the war zone that is Luang Prabang! It’s the end of Buddist Lent and there are firecrackers and rockets going off all around us. It is all in good fun, with boats being set alight and floated down the river and garlands of orange flowers bedecking everything. We [...]

Currently parked in Vientiane awaiting our exhorbitant Vietnamese visa. Luckily there is an end-of-monsoon festival happening at the moment so there is plenty going on (although the monsoon seems not to have realised that it has ended – it rained all morning). I think we will miss the dragon boat racing that is the culmination [...]

We have finally made it in to Laos, after being delayed for a day by a typhoon – our hotel had no power for most of the day, the street outside was completely flooded and it was raining continuously so we resorted to devouring the dreadful collection of chick lit and airport thrillers in the [...]