Category: World travel
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A perfectly passable Alps adventure
A cheap little weekend exploring the Alps
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Another month, another jaunt
The festive season had arrived, and the winter was stubbornly refusing to depart. I swear SAD gets more and more a ‘thing’ every year, and whilst climate change probably doesn’t really impact on daylight, this year has seemed far more Scandinavian than most, featuring a fleeting few hours of daylight nestled within the eternal gloom.…
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The answer is always “Take the flight”
I’ve never been a particular fan of the festive period, striving always to avoid the C word where possible. It’s not that I am grumpy, it’s just the ramming of it down your throat from November onwards and the false expectations and obligations on everyone. Around the start of December I found myself with 4…
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Sand to seaside
After probably a little too long in the desert, it was a relief to be back to the slightly more normal humidity and climate of Santiago. We’d formulated a rough plan facilitated by nothing other than the “Search map” function of Booking.com therefore were off to Olmue, a small countryside town a couple of hours…
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San Pedro, mi amor
The slight trauma of our driver’s car seizure was tempered somewhat by a very decent flight up to San Pedro de Atacama. Once again, we’d gone for the premium option- or at least Mark had- however I was forced to agree that this actually made really good sense, on LATAM this came out literally less…
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Turning left spoils you
And so, the time was nigh. Another holiday in the offing. Once more, this was largely based on factors that the average holidaymaker would never consider, the central one being “What’s the longest direct BA flight you can do with miles?” It turned out that the answer, with a little adjustment for the whims of…
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Finishing up with Thailand
Koh Mook wasn’t our final dalliance with island Thailand. Destination for the last few days of island hopping was Koh Kradan. Kradan was much smaller than anywhere else we’d been, just a few mere miles from Mook. We really didn’t fancy mucking around too much with the variable timetables, routes and helmsmanship of the speedboats,…
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A perfectly acceptable little midweek jolly
In life, it’s all about peaks and troughs. The peak in this case was having both night shifts off [although writing this it’s suddenly occurred to me that I’ve therefore missed out on fifty quid’s worth of shift allowance…trough] The [second] trough was having to drag my arse to Bristol Magistrates Court for a 2…
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Van jaunts are the best jaunts
Owning an old van comes with a great degree of guilt, if you don’t use it enough. Primary excuses for the past month have been based around lack of time and weather. But with the latter improving, and an overtime ban at work assisting the former, it was time for an outing. Thankfully, the ‘excuse’…
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Into the jungle
So, we’d arrived in Thailand. A good three days of beach bumming, but there always needs to be something to break it up a bit. Having looked around previously Khao Sok National Park seemed like a good shout…not a million miles from Phuket and definitely somewhere interesting to visit. Having looked around, various places were…
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