A Quick Visa Run via First Class Coach In some ways Malaysia has very generous visa provisions. For us, with our now well stamped UK passports, it means we qualify for a visa on arrival (VOA) that is valid for three whole months (well, 90 more »
We Test the Transtar ‘First Class’ Coach Experience We’d seen the photos and were excited to travel in ‘first class’ luxury. How did our visa run on the Transtar Solitaire Coach turn out? Did it live up to our super high expectations? Online Booking I more »
An Educational Morning Tour We saw a poster for the FREE Dataran Merdeka Heritage Walk up in the lobby of our hotel and never being ones to pass up a walking based group activity we decided to go to the very next one. It runs more »
Burgled in Broad Daylight So, it has been just over a week now and I think I’m ready to write about it… We were burgled. Our room and our bags were violated. For the first time in exactly 760 days of travel someone stole our more »
A Very Slow Trip that We Perhaps Wouldn’t Have Taken… Firstly, let me get it out of the way that the rail authorities of Thailand have closed part of the track between Bangkok and Chiang Mai, as of Monday 16th September 2013. This has resulted more »
Train 70: Journey Report and the Failures of Yortdoy Services It was without any trace of heavy hearts that we packed up and prepared for our overnight journey from Vientiane to Bangkok. We were not sad to be leaving and were, in fact, excited about more »
Where to Go in Vientiane for Reliable WiFi and a Decent Coffee There are a few excellent options to choose from when you’re looking for a place to work with a coffee in Vientiane. None of them really fall into the true ‘budget’ category though, if more »