Day 6 — A long Sunday evening at the lake
On Sunday morning we went to church with the Kraemers. Sunday morning at church with the Kraemers. For lunch we had ribs with pumpkin and corn, and afterwards we had an afternoon nap. At 17:00 [...]
Day 5 — Down and back up the Breitachklamm
On Saturday we went to hike the Breitachklamm. It rained while we were driving there, but the weather was perfect by the time we started walking. We parked at the top, just before the Austrian [...]
Days 1–4 — The 38½-hour journey to St Mang
We left home at 09:00 on Tuesday morning and only got into bed in St Mang at 23:30 the following night: a total travel time of 38½ hours. Our eight-hour stopover in Dubai was from [...]
Ha Giang Loop – The bucket-list item we didn’t know we had
We came to Vietnam, after a month in Thailand, with the main purpose of visiting friends, relaxing and working online. For the first two weeks we did just that, but then the opportunity arose to [...]
Bangkok in style
We decided to live in style for the last four nights in Bangkok. We booked into the Royal ThaTien Village, right in the middle of all the top attractions of Bangkok. The hotel is in [...]
The slow way to Bangkok
Surat Thani On arrival in Surat Thani, we went to the first restaurant right next to where the minivan dropped us. There was no English menu, but the owner managed to ask [...]
Half-island life
We finally left Phuket on Monday the 2nd of September after spending eleven ‘easy’ days on the island. Easy in the sense that we didn’t really leave our comfort zone yet and no ‘culture shock’ [...]
Rainy days and 7-Elevens
On Tuesday, the 27th of August we overslept and were packed up just in time for checking out at 12:00. We took a ‘tuk-tuk’ to Kata Beach. A tuk-tuk in Phuket is [...]
We made it to Phuket
Nai Yang Beach, Phuket Phuket immediately felt much cooler than Abu Dhabi, still nice and warm, but not too humid. We were also immediately struck with how ‘calm’ it was. Nobody tried to force us [...]