Kuala Lumpur is our go-to place for Thai tourist visas, and the hub for our favourite airline – AirAsia. Therefore, we spend a few days there quite regularly. And therefore, we have tended to take Kuala Lumpur for granted a…
Kuala Lumpur – Day 1129-1135 (Nov 28-Dec 4, 2017)
It is always both joyous and sad to hit the road again. We were looking forward to seeing our friends and family in Australia, but we would miss the friends and cats of Koh Phangan as well. As usual, we…
Agama Koh Phangan – Day 979-1060 (Jun 1-Aug 20, 2016): ATI, Visa Run, Dengue, ATIT
Jenny’s main focus for the month of June was the Agama Tantra Initiation. (In this post, we experiment with the subheadings that the built-in style checker in a WordPress plug-in keeps insisting we should use. Even now, it still bleats…
Baja, Hungary to Bangkok, Thailand, via Budapest and Doha
Baja is a lovely little town on the Danube, or rather on a side channel of the Danube – the full Danube is much, much wider than this waterway. It has a large square where vehicles are allowed to park,…
Brasov to Cluj, Transylvania, Romania, September 7-9, 2014
We met some English chaps in Budapest, who had just returned from touring Transylvania, and they told us that there was an amazing salt mine in a town called Turda in Transylvania. We had an offer of couchsurfing accommodation in…
Sofia, Bulgaria, August 28-29, 2014: Even more WOW!
After an excellent lunch, Marta took us to see the first cathedral built after the liberation of Bulgaria from the Turks – The Alexander Nevsky Monumental Cathedral. It is built proudly above ground, with domes covered in real gold. The…
котор (Kotor) to подгорица (Podgorica), Montenegro, August 21, 2014: Is it worth spending time in Podgorica?
The next day, all too soon, it was time to leave Kotor. The first leg of the journey was a short hop by bus, less than two hours, to the capital of Montenegro, Podgorica (pronounced Podgoritza). From here, you can…
Line Clear Restaurant, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia
Penang is a food-lover’s dream – cultures from all over the world mixed and mingled in the melting pot of the Straits of Malacca, leaving their mark on the architecture, place names, and, most importantly, the cuisine of Penang. Georgetown…