2010
12.10
Bitter Drink for Pigs
La Calavera Catrina (‘The Elegant Skull’) made a fine date for the evening Going to Playa del Carmen we were planning on camping at the beach at one of the ocean front resorts, a place Genaro and his family stayed at four years ago while travelling the Yucatán. There was a brand-new shiny hotel at [...]
2009
03.12
Bike Touring
Maik, Mario and Ignasi Luang Prabang is a total tourist town, and not somewhere we want to stay for long. As soon as we get our visas, we’re out of here. Some things can redeem a tourist town: good coffee and pastry, for example. This place has the worst of both worlds: lots of tourists [...]
2009
03.03
Working
A happy worker is a good worker We came to Savannakhet because it was the default stop leaving Hue, Vietnam; and, we only planned to stay for a day or two since it did not seem to be very prominent on the Lonely Planet radar, we are, in fact, lame bus-tourists. Two weeks later we [...]