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  • 747 Dreams

    As I journeyed home on Thursday afternoon I watched the 747’s fly off into the west. I wanted to be one those planes as they rose into the golden light of the approaching dusk. It now appears increasingly likely that we shall have to cancel our trip to Europe later in the year. We should…

  • Outrunning the storm

    Another trip to Canberra! Well it is over 6 months since my last flight down there for work and again it was work that called me back. My original intention was to get a lift by car and catch the train back, but a change in meeting times scotched that plan. So last Tuesday it…

  • Inspired to fly

    Somebody finally posted some of Ansett’s television ads on YouTube, my favourite ads of all time. The sight of the eagle flying above the clouds, the sothing music of Enya’s Storms in Africa in the background and the final roar of the aircraft as it lifts off always inspired me to fly. I like the…

  • The bumpy road back home

    Bumpy is one word that could be used to describe a number of journeys in this holiday. Taxis, buses and even trains bouncing at high speed. The slower but even rougher ride on an elephant’s back. And last night’s flight home. Only once have I experienced a flight so rough and that was a small…

  • Better than Paris

    Hilton. Not the city, not the hotel. Well, sort of the hotel. Okay, for a smaller sum of money than we would pay for many a three star hotel in Sydney we booked a room in the Hilton Kuala Lumpur. It’s our first ever time in a confirmed five star hotel and it sure is…

  • On the back of an elephant

    Discworld may require four elephants to support it, but B and I only need one. Perhaps that is why our ride was so shaky, but Namchou never let us fall. We were on an organised day tour of the Kachanaburi area about 130 kilometres away from Bangkok. Our small coach raced along the highway to…

  • Wat!

    As this holiday progresses it is becoming steadily more difficult to wake up early. Nevertheless, that is what we had to do in order to join today’s tour to the Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew. We were collected from our hotel and sent to the tour offices to join 30 others on the tour…

  • Mahachai Shortline

    I’m a bit of a train buff and no journey to a foreign land would be complete without a trip on the local railway system. In this case it would be an opportunity to experience some of ordinary Thailand outside of the tourist sites. I had read about the Mahachai Shortline in the Lonely Planet…

  • @Siam

    Is this hotel funky or what? The interior is like a work of modern art and there’s a video CCTV channel that shows what’s going down at the restaurant “Party House”! It’s almost a pity that we have so much planned for Bangkok that we won’t be spending that much time in the Siam@Siam Design…

  • Food and a funeral

    We missed our breakfast at the hotel this morning. B was feeling a little ill, probably a consequence of too many long days and late nights. But not to worry, as good food is never far away in Malaysia! Behind our hotel, down along Jalan Walter Grenier is long steel canopy, rusted with age. Beneath…