Where winding roads, rusty rails, iffy health and lean budget meet the calm
A white temple, a black house, a tea plantation and factory, three borders and entertainment at a night street food market packed in a day was a bit much, but Chiang Rai took the nod for our time in Thailand. Continue reading “Rai’s City”
While street art these days is in every city, it plays huge role in this part of the world. Continue reading “Penang: street art, street food and clan jetties”
George Town is definitely the most cosmopolitan city in Malaysia from what we have seen. Continue reading “George Town from high and low”
A long time ago I had this idea to travel to or from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur by train as part of our around-the-world-by-train itinerary. Continue reading “Singapore to Malacca by bus”
May 29
This deserves a post of its own. We arrived in Malacca yesterday. Continue reading “Doing laundry in Malacca”
Oh Melaka, Malacca, a name we’d only heard of not long before in connection with piracy on the Malacca Straits. Continue reading “Melaka Malacca”
We are half way through our Malaysian leg. Continue reading “June 4th check-in”
Whata whata? I don’t think that small city of almost 55,000 almost exactly half way between Sydney and Melbourne is on many foreign tourists “must visit” list. Continue reading “Wagga Wagga”
This is our last post on New Zealand with our notes from Christchurch and Dunedin. Continue reading “Christchurch and Dunedin, NZ”
Melbourne is an interesting city. It for sure is the most bohemian city we’ve been to. Continue reading “Melbourne”
There are three scenic trains that Kiwi rail operates, and we had them all booked shortly after our itinerary was ready. Continue reading “Scenic trains and a ferry in NZ”
(Diana – we have a few more posts coming from New Zealand, however we’ve been in Australia for 20 days now, of which I completely missed about a week with the flu, and Alex has this post ready to go) Continue reading “Brisbane, Queensland, Australia”
Yes, it is majestic and magnificent. And we were lucky to see it, snow covered and gloriously shining diamond-like on a clear sunny day. Continue reading “The glory of Mt. Cook”
If you haven’t gotten the memo – food is rather expensive in New Zealand. At least for our Canadian dollar. Continue reading “Food in NZ and how to survive the sticker shock”
As we have probably mentioned a few times our “splurge times” for NZ were Milford Sound and Mt. Cook. Continue reading “A hat in Milford Sound and old car parade in Te Anau”
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