Going away alone makes it easier to meet people on the road. With the Mediterranean islands I am especially lucky for female acquaintances. On the island of affectionate cats I like to think that tomorrow, all of Cyprus may become famous for being the island of cats. Reading the various guidebooks it seems that the…
I had high expectations about visiting Angkor; I also remember it super fondly for one of the most pleasant of the many travel acquaintances I have made. The immense archaeological site is in Cambodia, fairly close to the Thai border; however, it was far from where I was staying and I flew there. For a…
The second part of the trip consisted of visiting Chiang Mai and northern Thailand. Of Thailand’s second largest city I had read great things, but I did not particularly like it, perhaps because it is most famous for its large number of Buddhist temples, which to me, after seeing four or five of them, get…