So then, Vietnam is the latest stop on this whistle-stop tour of ours... but first I must go back quickly to write a little about our last few days in Laos ( Read more... )

Today involved riding through a forest full of lush green vegetation, butterflies and dragonflies ( Read more... )

According to this thing, I haven't written in here for 16 weeks. 16 weeks ago I probably hadn't even bought my ticket for South East Asia, yet here I am on a rainy day in Laos wondering where to begin ( Read more... )

I've flung my window wide open with my feet propped up in the sunshine. It's been raining most of the week so it feels like a bit of a treat ( Read more... )

Apparently I haven't written in six weeks... can someone please find a way of slowing time down? It's going far too quickly ( Read more... )

If you're going to work all week (that is 35 hours if you're a foreigner in France like me, or 28 if you're a native & fancy going on strike like a large majority of French people did this week) then you may as well make the most of your weekends. This has been my philosophy since I arrived in France & this past weekend was another example of its ( Read more... )

I didn't think I was so bad at this kind of thing but when you look at the date of my last entry I suppose I should stop denying the fact that at times I can be a lazy cow ( Read more... )

... but apparently I don't have the energy to say it right now. It'll have to wait. I've been larking around in the French countryside all weekend haven't I?

Exhausting... all the eating & the peace & quiet.

Not to mention dealing with the shock that is the arrival of December.

So no, I'm not in the right frame of mind. It'll have to wait.

xXx

Again, its been far too long. Here is the attempt to try & keep up ( Read more... )

I'm getting a holiday! Well, from my boss at any rate. He's going to a conference in Berlin for a couple of days which everyone is looking forwards to. For some reason he has decided to entrust work to me as of late & I've spent the last week or so producing brochures & other literature for 2009. I could have started this weeks ago, but he has ( Read more... )