History of Park Walk including number 5 Little Chelsea London Number 5 Park Walk was built around 1725, near the end of the reign of King George I. It is [ … ]
Viet Nam
Introduction This post is an experiment in recording a journey as it happens to South East Asia, our fourth, this time popping into Luang Prabang in Laos for a bit [ … ]
Laos and Thailand
A Holiday January 2015 HOLIDAY 2015 !1 Simon & Margaret de Mare Travels in South East Asia 2015 In seat 13G on flight no. BA 9 to Bangkok on 27 [ … ]
Cambodia, Angor Wat
Diary of an Adventure, 2011 “Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think” Sunday 30 January On the first leg, up at 5.30 am, to the sound of Margaret’s hair dryer. [ … ]
Cuba
Time Line for Cuba from ‘Cuba, A New History’ by Richard Gott 1492 &1494 Columbus visits Cuba, “discovers” indigenous tobacco plant. “The most beautiful that humankind have ever seen” 1511 [ … ]
