Budget + expenditures by country

=======================>    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR LA VERSION EN FRANCAIS    <======================== “What’s your budget.” is the question most asked when preparing for a trip around the world. Before we left, when discussing our plans to travel for a long period, one of the questions most people wondered if we had won the lottery or received a […]

Visit to the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam

It’s 6 am when the alarm rings. It’s been two days since we arrived in Borneo and specifically Kota Kinabalu (KK), the capital of the state of Sabah, east Malaysia. You should know that Borneo, the third largest island in the world by its size, is divided into three parts: the largest, Kalimantan, is part […]

Masterchef Thailand

We arrived in Chiang Mai by over night train from Bangkok at 8am and took a taxi straight to CM Blue House, our cookery school would pick us up between 8.30 and 9.00. We hadn’t eaten on the train, and skipped breakfast as we had a big day of food ahead of us. The train […]

Koh Kood, the last Thai Paradise

We left our accommodation on Koh Chang on Tuesday, January 31 at 8:40. A small truck waiting for us outside the entrance. Many people were already sitting in the back of the truck taxi: an Italian couple, German couple and two Ukrainians. We arrive at the small fishing village of Bang Bao and we are […]

Quick update

Our apologies for the lack of update in the last 10 days. It’s the rainy season here, which means rain every day from 2pm and therefore reduces considerably the possibilities of exploring the area or going trekking and photo opportunities. For our final 10 days in Bali we returned to Villa Surya Abadi in Canggu, […]

Bangkok Postal Service

I packed far too much for our round the world trip, just because you have a 50l backpack doesn’t mean you should fill it. I was lucky enough to dispose of some non-essential items in Bali, however my backpack could be lighter. Our fantastically located guesthouse, no 32 Bangrak House, was a 10 minute walk […]