Manila cathedral

The Mindoro loop

Having had our business and tourism concluded in Bangkok we headed for Vietnam, this time for Hanoi as neither of us had ever been there.  H...

Chao Phraya river

Taking the train to the former capital Ayutthaya in the morning.  Bangkok Hualamphong train station

Nice airport

Having done my admin I wasn't keen on flying back, at least not with Vueling on the grueling flight from Barcelona - Helsinki that I had...

We woke up early and left Nagercoil for Trivandrum 3 hrs before the train was due to leave. We had our rally driver wannabe driving so we fe...

This was our last day in Tamil Nadu and Richard had lined up a visit to  Colachel  beach and the Kali temple adjacent to it. Historically Co...

After the aqueduct the driver took us deeper into the Tamil Nadu foothills through some very narrow and curvy roads with the gas pedal floor...

Next in the program was to visit the Mathur Aqueduct that is the longest and highest aqueduct in South Asia. Not that I think there are so ...

We had some breakfast and soon after Richard came to pick us up to go to Kaniyakumari (Cape Comorin). The day was already stiflingly hot and...

As I still had some days of vacation left to spend I asked Jira whether she would be interested in joining me to go down south India to Tami...

I had been sitting at home or been doing errands when we then decided to go and see some waterfalls in Trang province for a change. N. Toe...

I had been invited to meet my friend Atul Gaikwad that lives close to Mumbai (at least when you look at the map) and this Saturday I decided...

   Cellular jail (source: Flickr on  Trawell  )

I arrived in the evening on 31st April by train and minivan from Bangkok to sign on m/y Kalizma, the van left me at the Yacht Haven Marina j...