As dedicated readers to this blog (all three of you! ;)) should be aware, I am a bit of a fan of the ol’ train ride, so I thought I’d do a bit of a summary of my time on the trains whilst I was in Myanmar over February and March. So, I only took …
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Royal Flower Guesthouse – Accommodation Review
My recent trip had me three nights in Bangkok before taking a flight to Mandalay in Myanmar and the start of my Burmese leg. On the day I arrived I took a taxi into town, and then I took a share taxi up the hill to the hill station of Pyin Oo Lwin. Here it …
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Foto Friday – Sunset at Bagan
Hi All! Welcome to a slightly different 'Foto Friday'. Yes, just the one photo again, however, I thought I'd share with you my frustration at my camera, only two years old and already a flick of mould on the lens! As you can see, it looks a bit like a stray bit of hair. I …
Foto Friday – Fisherman on Inle Lake
Apologies folks. Back into the swing of work and also doing heaps of writing for other projects has not given me the chance to blog this week. Hopefully this weekend I'll get out my Jetstar review. Here is a photo of a fisherman posing on Inle Lake, Myanmar. Sure, he does it for tips, but …
Yangon
So it seems my time in Myanmar is almost up. Boy it has gone quickly! It seems only yesterday that I was boarding my flight to Mandalay and tomorrow I am going to be taking a flight back to Bangkok where I will be joined by my wife and then we will have five days …
Inle Lake
Hello dear readers. I'm here at the Golden Kite Restaurant in Nyaungshwe with a few hours until I leave on my night bus to Yangon. I've had a cold for the last four or five days but slowly seem to be getting over it. Nyaungshwe is a sort of gateway town to Inle Lake, perhaps …
Bagan Temple-athon
Folks I'm writing from Nyaung U, in the area of Bagan, where you'll find thousands and thousands of temples, most dating from the time of around the twelfth century. It's a truly awesome sight let me tell you, and despite niw having seen a billion and one temples in the last week I have still …
Moonlighting in and Around Mandalay
Yes folks back again for another blog. I have had a pretty packed three days in Mandalay I have to say I am pretty tired. My first day I toured the city independently and I walked the soles nearly off my feet! Mandalay is not a compact city and if I had my time again …
Chillin’ in Pyin Oo Lwin
Greetings from Mandalay! Well it's been a great three days since I last posted and as you can imagine a lot has happened since then. I'm in Myanmar now for starters. And I have to say I love it so far. I've found the people warm and friendly and apart from the accommodation everything is …
Melbourne Travel Expo
Hullo all hope you haven't missed me too much this week but I have been working like crazy. In fact I have had my first day ooff in twenty days today. Firstly let me tell you about my day. I headed into Melbourne on this pretty hot day to change some money, catch up with …
Andy's World Journeys 