After a fantastic time cooking the previous evening (never thought I’d ever hear myself say that!), we awoke (aufwachen) for…
Bags packed (Taschen gepackt) and motorbike fully fuelled (vollgetankt), we set off on the 672 turns back down to Chiang…
Happy Birthday, mum! All the best from Pai! 😘🎁🎉🍾
As we bolted down (rasen) the highway out of Chiang Mai doing 120km/h, I started to wonder (such fragen) if…
After our short but great visit to Luang Prabang, it was time to go back where it all started: Thailand….
After our journey back to Hanoi from Cat Ba, we had enough time for lunch and a bit of shopping…
Taking a junk boat through the towering limestone islets of Ha Long Bay (Boot) is possibly the most famous (berühmt)…
As you’ve read from Porko in his guest post; after our luxurious train ride and checking into Queen Light Hotel,…
Our blog has grown so popular that we’re now commissioning (beauftragen) guest posts! This is a post from the World-renowned…
After a less than inspiring stay in Da Nang – where the highlight were the tacos we had for dinner…
For the following morning (31.01.) Thao had arranged a car to pick us up to drive us to Da Nang,…
Next morning I woke up to a pleasant surprise. Tom had told Thao it’s my birthday, so I was treated…
Alles Liebe & Gute zu deinem Geburtstag!😘🎁🎉🍾 ❤️-liche Grüße von An Bang Beach!
We said goodbye to John in Quy Nhon at 6am and boarded the sleeper bus to Hoi An. As the…
With the Tet New Year festival (more about that in our next post) fast approaching (nähern) and this time being…
On the morning of the 20th we took a bus to Nha Trang, Vietnam’s most popular beach destination on the…
After Mui Ne, we continued our journey north and went inland to the mountain city of Da Lat. Da Lat…
At 9am on the 13th January, we were picked up for our bus journey to Mui Ne, a small beach…
In line with the transient nature (bedeutet, dass man nicht lange and einem Ort bleibt) of the European yoof (youth)…
Our first stop back in Asia after leaving Melbourne was Singapore, where we’d be staying for two nights. We got…
After flying down to Melbourne from Sydney with Matt, we cabbed (wir haven ein Taxi genommen) it to our friends…
Very tired we arrived at Sydney at around 2:15am on the 28th December. We took an Uber to Matt’s apartment,…
After taking the night bus from Brisbane to Port Macquarie, I was immensely grateful (dankbar) to be picked up by…
Our next destination was Surfers Paradise where we would stay with my friend Brad, whom I’ve met on my previous…
On the 16th of December we were finally headed to Australia and we were both looking forward to a little…
Our last destination in Indonesia and also one we were most looking forward to were the Gili Islands. Set at…
Still feeling bad about our overindulgent (überaus nachsichtig) 21 minute flight from Langkawi to Penang earlier in our trip, I…
Leaving Java, we took the public ferry from Banyuwangi and then a public bus to Kuta Beach – all for…
Two volcano sunrises, about 200 km away from each other, in 24 hours? No problem!
On the morning of the 23rd we finally (endlich) left Jakarta and I can honestly (ehrlich) say I have never…
Everything we’d heard and read about Jakarta was that it wasn’t a particularly tourist-friendly city and wasn’t really worth spending…
“Hey bird. Hey Mr Birdy. Oooh hello birdy” “Are you going to say hello to every bird in here?” “Is…
Late as usual, we were picked up for our transfer to the bus station for our journey to the Cameron…
After hearing horror stories of the boat journey across the open sea of the Malacca Straits from Langkawi to Penang,…
Our time in Thailand had come to an end, next stop: Malaysia. We decided that our first stop should be…
Leaving Ko Lanta, we were destined for Ao Nang, Krabi; a three-hour drive back up the Phang-Nga Bay. The journey…
Our departure from Phi Phi for Koh Lanta ended up being rather protracted (langwierig). Despite all the tour shop signs…
On wednesday (26.10.2016), we arrived at our most favourite place in Thailand so far: the Phi Phi Islands. The Phi…
After our earlier mishap, we arrived back to the Phuket immigration office at 09:50am – ten minutes before opening – to extend our tourist visas before we were due to be picked up from Amici Miei at midday for our ferry to Phi Phi.
Alles Liebe & Gute zu deinem Geburtstag!😘🎁🎉🍾 ❤️-liche Grüße von James Bond Island!
Arriving into Patong Beach, Phuket in the early afternoon, we checked into our hotel Amici Miei (meaning ‘My Friends’ in…
“Bye Larry”. It was time to say adios to our new friend Larry the Lizard who had been living in…
Our second day on Koh Samui started at the very early time of 07:15 to join our boat for a…
Today – our first full day on Koh Samui – we decided to hire and moped to travel round the…
We’d just finished eating sushi for dinner (happy hour, buy two get one free – very tasty) and were walking…
After two chilled out and lazy days in Chumphon, having watched the complete first season of Stranger Things on Netflix…
“TAM. Hey TAM! How do you say? Taveller or tavelling?” ‘Not again’, I thought to myself. When will he go…
Today, on our last day on Koh Phayam, we finally had some sun! Which we used to explore the other…
Our final day in Bangkok before heading south was to be spent exploring the two biggest and most famous temples in the city – Wat Pho and the Grand Palace.
Sun setting over Bangkok from the roof of our hotel in Chinatown.
“…a short road that has the longest dream in the world”
Why is that? Thailand uses Buddhist era dating, which is 543 years ahead of our Gregorian calendar. Things are a…