by A Bird Abroad | Jul 1, 2016 | South East Asia, Uncategorized
Another day. Another country. Another bus ride…I feel as though I have spent a good portion of my week on a bus making my way into and around Vietnam. From Phnom Penh I took a relatively nice bus with a sane driver into Ho Chi Minh. One night there, the...
by A Bird Abroad | Jul 1, 2016 | South East Asia, Uncategorized
People who struggle with the concept of causation often (jokingly) like to note that Hitler was a vegetarian and therefore his protein deficit must have had something to do with his genocidal tendencies. If that is the case then Pol Pot must have been the most...
by A Bird Abroad | Jul 1, 2016 | South East Asia, Uncategorized
I finally escaped the madness of Bangkok and took a bus to Siem Reap in Cambodia which is the city near the temples of Angkor. I hadn’t booked ahead having realised that the online booking systems didn’t always show the cheapest room rates. Luckily the...
by A Bird Abroad | Jul 1, 2016 | Scuba Diving, South East Asia, Uncategorized
Through Big Blue us lowley DMTs and DMs were offered the deal of a lifetime…4 days of living and diving off a swanky boat in the Similan Islands, one of the top dive sites in the world for a considerably cheaper rate than normal. 15 of us got our dollar bills...
by A Bird Abroad | Jul 1, 2016 | Scuba Diving, South East Asia, Uncategorized
Now that I have moved on from my tropical island paradise I have had a chance to reflect on my time there. I thought I would write a little guide to the place for anyone who might visit in future, especially those staying for a while. #1 – Motorbikes and...
by A Bird Abroad | Jul 1, 2016 | South East Asia, Uncategorized
So it was while since my old TravelPod blog had been updated, not because I was being negligent (maybe a little bit)…but because new things weren’t happening anymore. Most of my days involved waking up, getting ready for the boat, diving, showering and...
