• Noodle soup
    'Round the world 2012,  Travels

    Hot, spicy, and sour

    Hungry and very eager to try some authentic Thai food on my first night in Bangkok, I asked the front desk where I could get some street food.  I thought I might as well dive right in and start prepping my stomach right away.  I wandered for 15 minutes and get to a busy area with lots of street vendors and street stalls selling all sorts of junk — including pink plastic dildos.  Unfortunately I didn’t whip out my camera fast enough to get a photo before the vendor stopped me.  Choices galore, I had no idea what each vendor was offering and wanted to try a bit of everything!  Finally…

  • 'Round the world 2012,  Travels

    10 days to go…

    The 10 day count down begins…in 10 days time I will be in Bangkok — exotic, tropical, busy, chaotic, and wonderfully foreign. So the first post of my 3 month adventure starts.  Below is a rough mapping of my “trail”.  I’m starting off in Bangkok, doing a quick stop in Siem Reap and Ankor, before doing a thorough exploration of Vietnam.   Then it’s off to stylish Stockholm to meet up with my brother and onwards to trendy Copenhagen.  Budapest follows next as an intro to Central Europe before we spend a leisurely two weeks sailing the Croatian coast.   Unable to resist a stop to my favourite European country…