Did I say I’d be sleeping on an A380? Hmm. About that.. Even getting on it took a while. The gate lounge opened so I grabbed my bags and walked up to the security checkpoint, started emptying my pockets. The guy asked to see my boarding pass then told me to go away again for […]

Ah, air travel. It’s just superb at finding ways to annoy you. Halftime in the football I go to check in for my flight. The travel agent’s website gives me a check in reference, I find the Singapore Airlines site, go to their check-in page and it tells me the check in reference is the […]

Sat on a rooftop in Singapore, the sun only partially blocked by the verdant display from the window box, I struggled with a tricky question. Do I use the tumble dryer so that I can wear my jeans today, or avoid the risk of everything shrinking and hope it all dries more naturally. The laundry […]

Singapore is the sixth country of the trip, if you include the UK. I do, I had to do some travelling and had lunch there, which is more than I managed in Cambodia. I’d pointlessly set my alarm to be sure of getting up in time. Disembarking at 9am gave me a chance for a […]

I gained weight today. I hadn’t meant to, I just ate a lot. It was a quiet Monday in Malaysia. I say in, I’m not sure we were even in its territorial waters. The coast wasn’t in sight, so I could be in Malaysia in the same way that people in Dover are in France. […]

A decent sleep, sensible length, naturally awake and wondering how early it was. Then I remembered the darkness was a lack of windows and checked my watch: 7.20am, a perfectly reasonable time to rise. My glasses rejected attempts at further repair but seem to working ok so I haven’t switched to the other frames – […]

The early start to the day proved necessary, as the temple we were visiting was the other side of Pattaya. Despite being billed as a day in the countryside the first 45 minutes of the trip stayed well within urban areas, only the final 5-10 minutes showing rural locations. Even those were heavily built up, […]

Another morning, another luxurious 8am lie-in. Dressed and on deck with coffee in time to watch us dock, the lazy dock workers using a car to pull the anchoring ropes from the ship to shore (using a line thrown to them, in case you’re wondering). It’s a big dock that looks how I imagine Immingham […]

Comically it appears I hit my day’s 300MB limit while posting last night’s update. I went to bed not knowing whether it went online or not. The next morning I went up for coffee. No breakfast, I’m not getting enough exercise to offset it. My first Cambodians were up there, and they were getting breakfast, […]

Sleep. Sweet blissful sleep. Of course, I woke up at 4.55am because my body is now used to its 5am alarm call. But with no steam pipe above me 5am passed and I drifted in that restless dream state for another hour or two, then fell asleep properly. I finally emerged from my cabin just […]