While Luang Prabang may not be the most developed town from an economic perspective, it certainly is geared up for the tourists! Internet cafes everywhere and loads of cute restaurants, coffee shops and massage places (although the Lao acupressure massage is extremely painful and NOT recommended!) We decided to explore the outer limits of the [...]

After we were released from the vipassana center we were thrown back in the noisy world called Thailand. The meditation was qui(e)t(e) an experience, but now we had to get our mortal bodies to Luang Prabang. Everything went remarkably smoothly and even Sal was not stressed when we arrived only 30 minutes before the flight at [...]

So we are finally back in the land of internet, communication and food!! The 10 day meditation course was quite an experience… it surprisingly included a lot of time meditating, some time eating and no time talking. I’m pleased to say that I managed to survive it and that despite my concerns that I may not be able to [...]

Uhm… well just watch the movie

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8352041305365229745

It’s very hard to describe what is means to be in solitaire confimement for 10 days, not speaking to a single soul except your alter ego and meditate 10 hours a day. The experience is intense but since nobody has the same experience here is my take, in pics
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Although my back was hurting still from the powerboat wake-boarding we decided to go to the Magic Buddha Gardens of Samui. After we dealt with all the chores (buying tickets at Time to travel [by far the best travel agent we saw]) we set off around 4PM to the gardens which are around the highest point in Samui. We [...]

So, after spending a day doing very little of anything, I decided that we should get off our asses and do something constructive. I decided it’d be a great idea for me to have my second wakeboarding lesson, the first one having been in Singapore 5months earlier. It’ll be easy right? After all, I was a natural…
Peter [...]

After our very exciting visit to Tesco, we went to see one of the marvels of the island… the Nam Meong (sp?) waterfall…. 80m high from top to base. It’s in the middle of the island and took us nearly an hr by bike to get there. We managed to escape from the very persistent elephant [...]

On our way to the waterfalls at Koh Samui, Sally really needed to check out TESCO. Since Sally is going to work at the European HQ near London, I found this a bit nerdy but why not. But I could not resist I just had to shoot this little movie …

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2909412816816519354

Finally there was enough wind to get my kite out of the package and so I did, but now it was the lack of kite skills which prevented me from getting it up immediately. When my skills slowly improved, the wind decided to go on holiday and my kite fell out of the sky. Sal [...]

Since there was not enough air to move a palm frond and because the Thai farters were nowhere to be found, we looked for other entertainment… after all, there’s only so much jet lag that one can recover from.
So we decided to explore the island and rented a scooter, for the princely sum of 3euros [...]

So I took my kite to South Africa and there was no time in between visiting family and friends to surf.  Besides the water around Cape Town was too cold anyway. Then I took the kite to Hvar, Croatia. Nice weather, nice wind but no beach to start! So I took the kite unused back home and [...]

We arrived in Thailand about 3 days ago I think and have spent most of the time doing, well… nothing much really… We were both pretty jet lagged when we arrived and needed to sleep A LOT. But we have at least managed to find the time to swim and have a few beach strolls :-).
Apart [...]

We decided to spend our last day in Singapore in a fairly relaxed fashion.. a quiet lunch followed by a leisurely boat cruise along the Singapore River. Was a great way to see the city, but we certainly could have done without the ‘I-forgot-to-take-my-lithium’ recording that they insisted on playing at full blast above the [...]

Sal crashed in bed and was not planning to move. The jet-lag had seduced her and taken her away. I just had to answer some email regarding my latest job opportunities and since the Hotel Internet machine was occupied by a overweight Chinese 9-year old who was playing online poker games I thought is was wiser to [...]