A Travel Blog
It was an unexpectedly early start for us on our first day in Koh Samui when Len set the alarm for 7.30 in readiness for us to meet his sister Helen for breakfast at 8.30. A few minutes after rising, Sue, working on her iPad, noticed that the time was only 6.40am! Apparently, our el-cheapo … Read more
Round the island Back in 2010 before we started our travel blogs, Sue wrote a post on her litblog about doing tours. We felt after our experience on that holiday that those sorts of day and half-day tours were not for us. We did, however, do a couple in Spain, but for very particular purposes … Read more
CourtesySingapore, we’ve heard said, is a very Western city and therefore not of much interest to travellers wanting to experience the “real” Asia. Perhaps so, but while it’s clean, organised, and English is the main language, there is quite a different sensibility. For one thing, there’s a level of politeness and courtesy that seems both … Read more