We stayed a few days in Luang Prabang, went cycling, went to some beautiful turquoise waterfalls and had a fancy hot-pot by the river. We even saw a “ballet”, though it was a far stretch of the word! After Luang Prabang we headed south to Vang Vieng. Vang Vieng is a terribly touristy town. It’s [...]
Recently we came back from a three weeks backpacking through Thailand and Laos. We started in Bangkok, spent a couple of days acclimatising, then took a night train up to Chiang Mai. Chiang Mai has (literally) hundreds of temples – you couldn’t run a hundred yards in that town without bumping into a Buddah – [...]
Too often blogs are all about complaining, what went wrong, which company screwed you over… Time for something different: I had a problem with my camping cooker: a bad soldered joint on the base broke rendering the cooker useless. I was especially annoyed because the two year guarantee had just ran out. Still – I [...]
We’re just back from Burning Man – more about that later, but first a short post about solar cooking! Prior to Burning Man, I made a solar cooker based on the CooKit plan – it cost about $10 in materials (a mylar emergency blanket, some thin (3mm) chipboard, and glue), and took about 2 hours [...]