***Video montage of the festival is at the bottom of this post - Jump to view here!*** If you arrive in Thailand during the second week of April without doing your homework on the various different Thailand festivals, you will be in for a BIG shock! You check...
Since its invention in 1849 in London, many famous people have been sporting bowler hats. You may recall the likes of Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy and even Mr.Potato head from Toy Story 2 wearing these types of hats. However, none of them...
****28th July 2015 - For UPDATE on the new immigration office in Chiang Mai - See HERE**** One of the very few downsides of living in Thailand is having to worry about visas. But given the amount of upsides to living here, knowing and abiding by Thailand visa...
***Video clip at the end of the post*** Salar de Uyuni (which is Spanish for Salt Flat Uyuni) is by far the world’s largest salt flat, measuring in at a mind-boggling 10,582 square kilometers or 4,086 square miles. Formed as a result of transformations between several...
We recently spent four nights in the beautiful city of Barcelona and got to experience a small sample of the Catalan way of life. It was our first trip to Spain and we weren't disappointed by our first impressions of the country. Exploring Barcelona was on our "to-do"...
*****Video montage of the trip is at the bottom of the post***** Hailed as the number one must see attraction in the whole of South America, Machu Picchu was somewhere that we both were super excited about visiting. For those of you that are not too familiar with...
For four years, the people of Cambodia lived through an absolute nightmare – hell even. Between the time period of 1975 – 1979, an estimated 1 to 3 million people were killed; murdered at the hands of the leader of the Khmer Rouge whose name will send shivers down the...
***** If you want to see some GoPro footage of the Death Road, then scroll to the end of the post ***** For many, many years we'd heard about the terror and danger of the "World's Most Dangerous Road" in La Paz, Bolivia and we wanted to experience it first hand for...
Boca Juniors was a team that I’d known about from the early 90’s – as a result of my fascination with Maradona’s epic 1986 world cup success. As a teenager back then I’d heard about Boca Juniors as Maradona played with them for a couple of seasons. While we were...
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