Category: World travel
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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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Airport beach
When we first picked Phuket as the airport to fly into, our initial plans were a bit different…fly in, 2 nights in town and then hop over to the islands. At that time (July) we booked the amazing Woo hotel for 40 quid a night. Steal. [we later ended up completely screwing it up by…
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Koh Mook, where the Universe smiles on you
The journey here was deeply inauspicious, with a hugely long wait in Koh Lanta and a bit of general confusion about schedules, lots of stops, chaos and melee, along with a particularly packed speedboat. At least the seas were mellow. This was, however, a very long passage. For future reference, if you’re coming to islands…
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Off again for winter sun…
Yes, yes, I know, Greta won’t be impressed. But come on, winter these days is especially bleak, with the combination of wall-to-wall rain and none of the things that make winter fun like, dare I mention it, snow? Ironically however, the February week that preceded our escape was one of the best for a while,…
