Travel and Tourist Tips. Living as lifestyle of travel in Asia we share our travel tips to make the most of travelling and experiences.
It doesn’t happen often but when it does it’s a pain in the ass. This happened to me on recent flights between Bangkok and Belfast. To complicate things my claim for damaged baggage had two connecting flights taking in two different carriers. The two airline carriers were Jet Airways and British Midlands (BMI) and the …
Where would I be now if I hadn’t first travelled alone? It is scary to even think. Probably in my hometown, working a civil service job, pissing my wages up the wall. My life boozing at shop fronts and train stations was going nowhere but further into alcoholism and probable depression. I had always complete …
Travelling in Southeast Asia can easily go from one tourist attraction to the next. Little excitement and little learned. For this reason I always promote local immersion and independent travel in Southeast Asia; getting off the backpacker trail to find your own unique and local experiences. Admittedly not easy with fresh eyes for the region but …
Dodgy stomach? Must have been the street food. The easy culprit for blame. With people far more likely to share bad experiences than good – there is an obvious and unjust bad rap for street food. This and people’s love for hilarious poop stories. “Ate Bangkok street food. Bathroom looks like a Jackson Pollock #lol”. So is …
Tea sir? Tea? Would you like some Tea? Tea? Ceylon tea? The final stretch of long-haul flights is excruciating. Braindead, muscle numb, squirming in anguish. There is nothing at all enjoyable about long-haul flights. I have had the misfortune of flying with 15 individual long-haul carriers in the past 10 years. Every flight as agonising …
The curse of tourism – to destroy what it most desires. Inevitable and unstoppable. The Southeast Asia region far from immune to this curse. In fact travel in Southeast Asia probably gets the worst of it. Bangkok the most visited city in the world. Backpackers littering every beach and island. Even off the beaten track …
The cold, bleak British winter can begin to bring even the most cheerful of us down. We’ve all been there – sat in the office when the rain starts to trickle down the window we begin to drift away again, dreaming about that holiday in the sun. Luckily we’re at hand to help make those …
For those new to FamilyMart they are a Japanese convenience store franchise chain popular throughout Asia. Last month we in fact spent two weeks travelling in Japan and we each day would start and finish at the local Familymart picking up snacks and whatnot. They’re convenient, and prices don’t change from one shop to the next. Similar to …
The quickest and most convenient route from Penang to Hat Yai would be the minivans/buses crossing the borders from Malaysia to Thailand at Dannok (Sadao). These minivans/buses leave relatively regularly from the terminals at Penang Komtar in Georgetown, a tower/building which can be seen from pretty much anywhere in Georgetown’s tourist zone (minivans normally leave at 08:30, …
With our recent, more luxury travel in Southeast Asia, people have mistaken us for being ‘rich’. Of course this is not even close to the truth. We are not, never have been and have no aspirations to be rich. What we are however, is good at ‘keeping up appearances’. Much of the misconception comes from …
