This morning we dragged ourselves out of bed to check out the ships complementary  breakfast. We were still at port when we arrived at breakfast. Breakfast on the boat was from 8-9 am. A lot of our ship mates were still sleeping from the night before. But we were able to see the small port of Milna waking up as our boat pulled out of the harbour towards the next stop. Breakfast was the traditional European breakfast of meats and cheeses. They also had eggs every day. There also was yogurt [...]

Last night, we arrive in Croatia. For this trip I travelled with my girlfriend Carrie. We had taken a flight from Toronto to Munich to Split. We arrived in Split tired and an hour delayed, however we had arranged a taxi to pick us up at the airport and take us down town which was lovely. Afterwards we checked into an airb’nb which was in a small Fishermans house in the middle of split. It was the perfect location for wandering around and checking out the town. We spent our time checkin [...]

When I originally decided to go to Sri Lanka, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I originally choose it because I wanted to go to India, and I decided that this was close to that. The biggest piece of advice I can give you is that Sri Lanka is NOT India. The culture and the country are very different. Now I have not been to India yet, but everything that was in my mind as, this is what India is, was wrong. 1. No Crowds In India, there are people everywhere and it is a re [...]

Last year I had the good fortune to visit the Balkans and fell in love. Lucky for me my trip was in late May which is not quite tourist season, so I never dealt with crowds or anything. Now I was only able to spend 14 days in seven countries, but I was able to get a taste of what each country was like and really get a sense of if I wanted to go back. Here are 9 reasons you should visit the Balkans. 1. They are not part of the EU Traveling in the Balkans can [...]

In 2016, I was fortunate to take a tour with Contiki to the Balkans. I learned so much about this area of the world in the short period of two weeks. I would definitely recommend this tour to anyone looking for a fun new adventure. Below you can find the breakdown of my trip: Day One Trogir, Croatia Day Two Split to Dubrovnik, Croatia Day Three Dubrovnik Croatia Day Four Kotor and Budva, Montenegro Day Five Budva Montenegro Day Six Mostar a [...]

Happy Birthday to me! It’s our last full day on tour and its my birthday, since who doesn’t want to be on vacation on their birthday. Andrew was really sweet and got me a present while I was still in bed. I had to laugh because he had gotten me what he through was a card from one of the really cool shops in Slovenia. Only it was a post card, which was almost better since it was hilarious! From there we had buffet breakfast at the hotel. The hotel breakfast was better then some that we ha [...]

This was an early day today, but I was so sad that we were leaving Slovenia that I woke up extra early so I could go find a cafe and a real coffee. That is one of the things that this trip did not have. A lot of real Americano coffee. So we headed out to see what we could find. Low and behold, we went to the cutest hipster cafe. They were bright yellow and had homemade chocolate croissants and real coffee. I wanted to cry! They were a tiny hole in the wall place. But the funnest thing abou [...]

Day twelve. With this day we lost 8 of our tour mates and gained 6 new ones. It was bitter sweet, since we had really bonded as a group. And we were skeptical of the new additions to our group. We tried to get to know them, since thats what nice people do, but its hard. Today’s lunch break was again at a gas station. This one had a really nice outside patio. Me and Andrew tried to sit with some of the new people to welcome them, and try to see what they were all about. The best part of thi [...]

Today we had a full day in Budapest. This was one of those places that I wish I had taken the time to read a few more blogs about when in Budapest, this is where you should go. Since this city is huge and there are so many places that you could visit. We started off the day as a group on a walking tour with a local guide. And I have to say the weather was perfect. It was my favourite time of spring, when its warm and the flowers are coming out and there is a slight breeze. Which made the d [...]

Our time in Romania was really short, we headed out first thing in the morning.  It was a full day on the bus, driving from Romania to Hungry.  We stopped at a gas station for lunch, which was fine, most of the gas stations out this way had attached restaurants. It was around this time that we realized that some of the people on our trip would be getting off our trip in Hungary. So the trip starts to have a remorseful feeling. We realized that a good chunk of the boys on our trip would be le [...]

Ekkk! This trip was going by so fast! But we woke up today in our beautiful hotel room, and went to the top floor (8th Floor). For breakfast. The main problem of this hotel is that there is only one elevator for all floors, but there were stairs, so that was great. We were on the sixth floor, so getting breakfast was easy. Breakfast was the usual buffet with cereal and fruit and buns and meats with cheeses. After that we packed up and went to the lobby to catch our bus. The only real pr [...]

Our trip is half way through. It is hard to believe it. But it is. So on we go. Today we were told to dress conservative as we would be going to a grave site today. So covering up legs and shoulders everywhere we go. We made the mistake of getting on the bus last so we got booted to the back of the bus. That was ok, Elle got booted to the back of the bus too, so we shared the seats together. So during the civil war in Bosinia, the Serbians were rounding up the muslim men and boys and were [...]

Waking up today and going down to breakfast was a large wakeup call. Actually there were two wake up calls. First of all, our across the hall mates, had a fight. It must have been really big, because the girl decided to leave the tour. Secondly we found out our hotel was very muslim, and there were few girls showing their shoulders. It was defiantly the push I needed to go back to my room and change before we went out for the rest of the day. I changed to a dress that covered my shoulders in [...]

Today we headed out for a long drive to Bosnia. Today’s movie of choice was Meet the Millers. I mention this, because this movie has a classic character in it. Scottie P. He has a catch phrase that became our running joke all through the movie. “You know what I’m saying?” He says it after everything he says. Also he has a tattoo that says No RAGRETS. “What’s the one right there?” “Oh this? This is my credo, No Regrets” “How about that. You have no regrets?” “Nope” “Like, not even a sin [...]

Today was our free day in Budva, and for a rainy day we tried to make the most of it. First off we slept in. I think we didn’t got out of bed until 11am. Which for anyone who knows me, is not usually a thing I can do. But it was nice to have a slow start to the day and spend some time catching up with family and reading. We did manage to get our buffet breakfast right before they closed to prep for lunch. I think I had toast. When we finally got dressed, we decided to brave the weather and [...]

Day four of Best of the Balkans. Breakfast was another buffet. I had cereal. We all piled into the Contiki bus to drive to Montenegro. All of us were sad to see Dubrovnik go. It was such a magical city. However the drive out of Dubrovnik was almost as magical. To leave Dubrovnik to go towards Montenegro, you need to zig-zag all the way up the mountain. Which basically meant we had gorgeous views of Dubrovnik the whole way up. Our driver Marco, was awesome an found a photo spot for us all t [...]

Day Three of our Best of Balkans tour. I started the day off with a run around the harbour. I loved the fact that I could see the harbour in the early morning light with only the locals around. It was really quite, other then the fish market down the street. The downside of this run was that there was only so far you could go before the streets started going up hill. So I ran so a bit then gave up when I was in a residential area and wanted to make sure I could remember the twists and tur [...]

Day Two of our Best of Balkans tour. Today we started off with free time in Split. Our guide walked us to the old town of Split and gave us a few options of what to do. So quick background on Split. Split is the second largest city in Croatia. According to our travel guide Carly, an old Roman Emperor called Diocletian thought Split to be the most beautiful spot in Croatia.  So he decided to build his retirement house there. (A note – online sources seem to think he choose the spot inste [...]

It’s the First Day of the Best of the Balkans Contiki tour. I took this trip with my husband Andrew. We were one of two married couples on this tour. The rest of the trip was a group of 35 people with the majority between the ages of 25-35. We had flown into Split, Croatia the night before, so that we could get a good night sleep and be awake when we met the group at 6pm for dinner and drinks. Or Contiki set up a meet up group so we knew that two other girls on our trip did the same thing [...]

Day fifteen, and we were ready for our beach vacation. We could not wait to get out of Columbo. It was dirty, it was dusty, and there were too many swindlers. So we got breakfast at the hotel before we jumped into a tuk tuk to go to the train station. The Tuk Tuk driver tried to convince us to let him drive us to Galle, but I don’t think he understood how excited we were for the train. We got to the train early, and the thing to remember about the trains in Sri Lanka, is that the trains do [...]

Day fourteen we arrived in Colombo. This was our last officially guided day on our tour. after that we were on our own. We decided after watching a lot of travel docs, that we would only spend one night in Colombo then make our way down south for a few days. Mainly all the advice we got was – Colombo is a terrible city, but the rest of the country is lovely. Needless to say I am glad we followed this advice. Colombo is a lot of things. it is the biggest city in Sri Lanka. Its where all the [...]

So on day thirteen we stayed at Turyaa Kalutara by Aitken Spence Hotel all day long. We decided to just relax and enjoy the hotel instead of going off site and trying to explore town. It was relaxing. They have a large pool, which is necessary as the waves on the beach were too large to swim. There is a fence that blocks off the beach from the hotel. Once you pass the fence you are bugged by tuck took drivers, vendors selling elephant pants and people offering to take you on an excursion. [...]

This morning we signed up for whale watching in Marissa. So we got our breakfast packed up to go and headed out to the boat. However it was raining and the seas were really rough, so we had to cancel, which was sad because the whale watchers had seen a bunch of blue whales in the area. So we headed back to the hotel to wait for a decent hour to leave to go to Galle. We were so excited to see Galle. We had seen it on the TV show “The Amazing Race” and wanted to see it in real life. This cit [...]

5 am wake up call today. Yikes. But we wanted to get to Yala National Park for 6am, so on the road we went. We got our breakfasts boxed up and ready to go. After our Safari yesterday we were so pumped to go on another Safari. Its like the ultimate I Spy adventure. We had a different Safari guide today. This time we had our driver as our guide. As we went through the park, we found that this is not actually as amazing as having a driver and a guide. On this Safari we had to be more on guard [...]

Sunrise on the balcony of Olympus Plaza Hotel was beautiful. We watched the sunrise while drinking out coffee. Today was a big day, we were going to go to the elephant orphanage. We had a 2 hour drive to the elephant orphanage. On the way we stopped at Ravana Falls. They are 25 meters tall. Story has it that the falls were named after King Ravana who hid a stolen princess behind these falls. After checking out the waterfall, we needed to head to the elephant orphanage. Our driver was a lit [...]

Today we woke up at 4:30am to hit the road at 5am. We were terrified that it would be raining as we woke up, but were happy to find out that it was just misting. This area is covered in potato farms and logging fields. It is really sad to see all the old growth trees they are harvesting. Today was our 4 hour nature walk in Horton Plains National Park in Ohiya. Horton Plains National Park is a protected area in the central highlands of Sri Lanka and is covered by montane grassland and cloud [...]

This morning we were so happy to be leaving our wet damp hotel, Kithulgala Rest House. You could not get us packed up and ready to go fast enough. It had been a rough night of sleeping, since I am paranoid of bugs, so I stayed up all night to stay watch. Learned a lot about myself, mostly that I hate bugs and would not do well in a “roughing it” trip. Our guide saw our low spirits and offered us the chance to ride the train through the tea plantations. He thought that we would enjoy it. I [...]

Once again we woke up to the amazing breakfast and luxury of the Hotel Suisse. We saw many comments on trip advisor of how the this hotel was tried and old, but compared to what we were about to go to, this hotel was pure luxury. We headed out around 9am to head towards Kitulgala. Along the way we had several stops. Our first stop was at a wood working shop. We had a guide take us around and show us all the furniture they made by hand and the different wood carvings they did. They also sho [...]

Waking up in Kandy at the Hotel Suisse was awesome, mostly because the breakfast they served in the Hotel ballroom was like stepping back in time. The ballroom looks like it was straight out of the 40s. The waiters served just like the old days. It was really charming. Our first trip of the day was to the royal botanical gardens. These a large park with different varieties of plants from all over the world. As we have once of these back home in Canada, I actually was not impressed, I thoug [...]

Today we were on the move again, on our way to one of the larger cities in Sri Lanka, which was Kandy. We woke up for a 9 am start and climbed into our car, to head out to the Dambulla Rock Temple. This was probably about an hour drive away, so we ended up arriving at the Temple around 10 am.  To get to the Dambulla Rock Temple, you buy your ticket at the base of the temple. As is apparently becoming a theme in Sri Lanka, they built this Temple on the top of a hill. Our guided warned us th [...]

Day four started out with a bike ride through the villages of Giritale. It was supposed to be a three hour bike ride finishing up with a lunch with a local. Our bike guides showed up with a truck full of bikes. We choose two bikes for us and two for the guides and got under way. The whole way of the bike ride, we were followed by the truck with the bike. We started out going along the river on our bikes and passed families washing their clothes in the river.  We also saw what our guide’s tol [...]

Today was the day me and Andrew were most looking forward to Sigiriya. /div> Looking at photos of this giant rock temple was what inspired us to book this trip. The temple was actually part of a larger rock temple complex. The short story of this rock says, a prince wanted to become King so he killed his father. Fearing that his subjects would rebel, he built his castle on top of this rock. That way he could see his enemies coming. In the en his brother taunted him out to an open field for a [...]

We got to sleep in today compared to what we were used to on a tour. This tour was big on leaving the hotel at 9-930am when I’m more used to the idea of leaving between 7 or 8 am. Breakfast was a buffet. Something that was very popular in Sri Lanka. Once we had breakfast we met our guide and drove to the cultural capital – Anapoi…. It was about a four hour drive. When we arrived at Anuradhapura and our guide asked us what we wanted to eat for lunch. This is a hard question when you do [...]

We made it to Sri Lanka. It was a long 26 hour plane ride but we made it. A few things to know about Sri Lanka. We got our travel VISA to Sri Lanka ahead of time. this was STRONGLY recommended to us, and it turns out on our transfers to Sri Lanka the airports checked it often.  So good thing to get. This tour is called Treasures of Sri Lanka. It was a private tour with just me and Andrew and our Guide. We were met at the airport by our guide. We did not know at the time that we would ha [...]

My last day in Spain. It is hard to believe how quickly the time flew. I must say that I definitely wasted my last day in Madrid. I go into the hotel at 5 am the night before so I slept in until 10 then I decided to get breakfast at the hotel buffet. Since its always a good ideas to get free food when you can. At breakfast I was able to say a goodbye to a lot of my tour mates. It was weird knowing that these people who you have become super close to, you will probably never see again. Then [...]

Last day on tour, second last day in Spain. Today is another FULL day. We hopped on the bus and has a 2 hour drive to the city of El Toboso. This is one of the cities mentioned in Don Quixote. This city did not have much other then 2 Don Quixote statues, a lot of Don Quixote nicknacks to buy, fig candies, olive oil moisturizer and a bakery. After our 15 min stop we climbed back on the bus and headed to Toledo. Before we got to Toledo, we stopped at a rest stop. All along this trip we have [...]

Day Twelve, I can hardly believe how fast this tour is going. However before it is done, I have another day to explore Seville. We started out the day by going to the Plaza de España, in Maria Luisa Park. It was built for the 1929 Exposición Ibero-Americana. The purpose of the Exposición Ibero-Americana was to smooth over relations with the countries who attended. It is lavishly ornamented with spanish glazed tiles, and was the palace in Star Wars episode I, and II (Small win though the orig [...]

This was a busy, busy day. But it was a pretty good day. We left early to hop on the bus and drove about 3 hours to Gibraltar. Gibraltar is a British Territory on the southern end of Spain at the entrance of the Mediterranean. It has an area of 2.3 square miles (6.0 km2) and a northern border with the Province of Cádiz in Andalusia, Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region. The country Gibraltar has almost 30,000 people. Gibraltar became British 1704 during the Wa [...]

Today is a full day in Granada. We had the walking tour early first thing in the morning. Our walking guide was called Paco. He was an elderly gentleman in his late 60s I think. Be had a good sense of humour. He took us to the old corner of the city called the Albaicín on the mountain. The view from there was amazing. You could see a good chunk of Granada and the snow capped Sierra Nevada mountains. The Albaycin is the old Arab Quarter. It comprises approximately the area between the hill [...]

Today is another travelling day. Yay. We got the late ferry and went to Denia. This ferry was the nicest ferry I have ever seen. It was like a mini cruise ship. With couches and fancy chairs, patio furniture, a pool, several bars, tvs and a kids area. It was not to shabby. We were on the ferry for four hours. With four hours to kill you have to believe that we got our drink on and hung out on the roof top patio. One of the boys was drunk enough to give us a strip tease. After that we had a [...]

Day 8 Today is recovery day in Ibiza. Most of us slept in till noon. Getting home at 7 am would do that for you. I had a quick shower then climbed into bed. At 11 am the maid service woke me up to change the towels and clean the room. I couldn’t fall back asleep, so I decided to wash some laundry. After that I went with the group to lunch. We went to a cafe down the street run by a French guy. I got my first salad all trip. It was a chicken salad with apples, tomatoes and an avocado sauc [...]

Day 7 Oh Ibiza. They say what happens in Ibiza stays in Ibiza. Well – we’ll see. We flew to Ibiza from Barcelona. The flight was delayed so we stayed at the airport for 5 hours. The flight was 45 mins. The we headed into the tow of Ibiza. We bought our pre- ordered party tickets on arrive at the hotel. The we had a quick walking tour of the city. The city is tiny. Lots of shops, lots of clubs, lots of cafés and the fort. That is it. Quick note. Ibiza is an island. It has several small to [...]

Day 6 This was a full day in Barcelona. We started the day with a bike tour of Barcelona. We took the bikes to a church in Barcelona that was built to honour the sailers in town. It had parts of a ships hull in the foundation. It was a little distracting because there was a marching band passing by at the same time. Next stop was the port. They built an island off the port for tourists so that they could put in tourist activities that would not have to close on Sundays. So they could ma [...]

Day 5 Today was a big travel day. We had 6 hours to drive to Barcelona. To be fair most of us spent the drive sleeping and getting ready for going out later that night. We made a stop 2 hours in at a place called Zaragoza. This was a roman city founded in 24 bc. This town was destroyed by Napoleon but rebuilt for the 2008 expo. We had a quick tour of the Basilica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar. A church built around a pilar on which the Virgin Mary is said to appear to St. James. You are su [...]

The four day of tour was an amazing day. I got up early and went for a run. After that we piled on the bus to head toward San Sebastián. San Sebastián is a town 20 minuets away from the France- Spain boarder. It is the holiday resort for the rich and famous. It has a lot of 5 star restaurants and shops. We drove into town and got dropped off just off the main drag. I spent the day at the beach. Claire, the girl twins and Jess headed straight to the beach to get as much sun as possible. [...]

The third day of tour took us out of Madrid where we started going north. We stopped in the adorable town of Segovia. This town is full of old world charm. Its most striking feature is a large roman aqueduct that dominated the landscape of the town. Another cool thing about this town is that it has a beautiful cathedral and a castle like rectory. The rectory is actually able to purchase tickets to to wander inside. If you like old buildings then it is worth the 7 euro to go see it. You can [...]

The second day on tour started out with a bang. At breakfast I opened my yoghurt and under the lid was a message that made me believe i had won free yoghurt for a year. I did not it was an invitation to entertain I win free yoghurt. After that we went for a bus tour of Madrid. We bused though the down town core and learned the layout of the city. Next we went to a museum called museo del parado. We saw the most famous, religious and royal paintings by Spanish painters. Random note – there [...]

This was day one of our contiki tour. I have never travelled alone so the day started off with a rocky start of me being extremely nervous. I am not even going to lie. But once I got onto the plane I was fine. I had a 7 hour flight to Amsterdam. On the flight I over heard the girl behind me was going to Madrid too. I decided that I would keep her in mind to help me get too my next flight. I slept most of the first flight trying to jump start my internal clock to Madrid time. I had a 5 ho [...]

June 7 – June 12, 2014 Memories Flamenco Resort, Cayo Coco, Cuba We spent 5 days in Cayo Coco this year. Cayo Coco is an island in the middle of Cuba. The island is only inhabited by 10 resorts and is an hour away from the main land (city called Morón) where the locals live. As the island is mostly undeveloped the wildlife is beautiful. The beaches are pristine. There are millions of different fish right off the beach at the resort. We spent our days between snorkelling on the bea [...]

The Last day. Hard to believe how fast 15 days goes. The contiki tour officially ended at 6 am this morning, but a group from the tour had late flights so we stuck together to explore. We got the hotel to organize a van for us to go our to see Banteay Srei, or the Pink Lady Temple. This temple is only major temple at Angkor not built by a monarch. It is constructed of red sandstone. It was a smaller temple then the ones that we saw yesterday. I’m not sure if I would advise other travellers [...]

So today we were checking off another big bucket list item, see the sunrise at Angor Wat (which means “Temple City” or “City of Temples” in Khme)r. Angor Wat is the largest religious monument in the world. It was cool to see something that was made by hand in the 12th Century stand the test of time. We got up at 5am and took a bus from our hotel to the Angor Wat parking lot. From there we walked in pitch black (no stars, no city light air pollution) with only our flashlights to guide us. W [...]

We found a tour outside of Contiki to take us to a Phnom Penh morning market for breakfast. We took Tuk Tuks to the market at 6 am, and met with our new guide Duckie. She introduced us to the best Cambodian doughnuts I have ever had. I still crave them, they don’t put icing on their doughnuts they top them with hot toffee. Yum. Then we went and tried noodle salad for breakfast. Not my fave for a breakfast option but when in Cambodia. We then proceeded to jump on a plane an flew for an h [...]

Another thing to note, going through customs into Cambodia was terrifying compared to Thailand or Laos. They scanned each of our finger prints and checked if we were flagged for any travel alerts. Just be prepared. Today was also going to be another heavy history day. First stop was The Killing fields. In 1975 to 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime arrested and eventually executed almost everyone suspected of connections with the former government or with foreign governments, as well as profes [...]

Today was another driving day – so lets skip that part because I don’t remember it. We arrived at Vientiane I think around 1 or 2, and went to the Laos equivalent of Williams coffee for lunch. I point that out because after recently discovering a dish called laap, all of us were disappointed by western food. After that we went to the COPE centre to learn about the bombings that happened during the Vietnam War. Laos sided with the Americans during the Vietnam War so the Americans used La [...]

Yet another long day of driving. Today was 6-7 hours of driving. With most roads looking like the ones in the photo above (aka lots of twists and turns up and down the mountains.) We used the time wisely and realized that you could make lots of great Laos puns. No puns a-Laos You win some you Laos some These puns a Laos-y I am at a Laos Alls fair in Laos and War OK – you get it – if you spend some time thinking about it you can come up with a lot of puns. We stopped on the top of o [...]

Day 8 was a big day. One of the optional excursions on our trip was to give alms to the monks in Luang Prabang. As a monk, you spend your day devoting yourself  to Budda, you are not allowed to cook. So in order to eat, the monks walk the streets every day at 6 am with big gold urns, looking for alms. The people of Laos give alms daily. For them it is part of their routine. They do it of the good karma it makes. The women of the family get up at 4 am to make the sticky rice for the monk [...]

So we were told that we might be able to wake up and see elephants drinking in the river if we got up early. So we bought croissants the night before, and got up at 5:50 am to see the elephants. We watched the sun rise, but still the elephants were hiding. They finally showed up at 7 am. Which was amazing – but wish I had a little more sleep. Luckily we had a boat ride to nap on. We took the boat until we arrived at the Budda Cave, also know as the Pak Ou Caves. The legend is that as lon [...]

Another big travel day. However very excited to see the rice fields in Northern Thailand. The drive from Chiang Rai to Laos was beautiful. While most of the bus was seeping off a late night, I enjoyed seeing what the far corners of Thailand were like. It something to check off the bucket list. Reaching the Thai boarder and checking into Laos was an interesting experience. We checked out of the Thai boarder, boarded a boat, and crossed the Mekong River to Loas. It took about 6 minutes [...]

We left Chiang Mai early in the morning. This was going to be a big bus day. The purpose of today was basically to go north enough so that we could cross into Loas tomorrow. But that did not mean that we did not do anything. For example, we went to Cabbages and Condoms, a public health outreach centre which wants to make sexual health as common as buying cabbages at the market. Or we went to visit Wat Rong Khyn, also known as the white temple. It is a contemporary unconventional Buddhi [...]

Day four already. This hotel was awesome. We got a full breakfast buffet. And I got my first taste of Thai Coffee. Man this will definitely become a life long obsession. They only put condensed milk into their coffee. Which is delicious, but sure its a billion calories. So we set off on our bus (which by the way was Finding Nemo themed) to this crazy temple on a mountain top. The bus ride is not for those who get bus sick. The roads to this temple are full of hair pin turns and you are [...]

  Today was a busy day in Bangkok. It is amazing how helpful it is to have a guide to help you around a city. We started off walking down our hotel street to the Ferry Docks. We had no idea we were so close to the public ferry. Also you had to go down a hidden side street, so not knowing how to read Thia, I’m not confident I would have found it. One thing about Thai Ferries, they boot it. They are not the slow ferries that we have in Canada.   The Ferry took us to The Grand Palace. [...]

Good morning Thailand. Hello Jet-lag. So I always thought that Jet-lag was a myth that lazy people made up. Well I’ve learned I am wrong. And 12 hours difference is rough. After scrapping myself outta bed, me and Andrew forced ourselves to go find some lunch and explore the Thailand markets. After realizing we were out of our element we settled on a “Paris cafe” restaurant and watched the world go by. We also watched a lot of Monks go by, mostly drinking Starbucks. On the way back, we s [...]

Welcome to Bangkok. After 26 hours of flight, Andrew and I arrived in Bangkok just after midnight. We jumped into a taxi, and hoped that our cab driver was indeed driving us to our hotel and not taking us to a crazy place. I was amazed to see that they have highways equal to those in Canada. They had condos going up beside the highways and flashing lights every where. There was definitely a moment of panic when our taxi turned down a street that was filled with people. We drove through [...]