Due to flying from London, I now have a ticket from Kings Cross to Perth, Scotland available. I’d originally planned on heading back home for a few days, but the flights from Heathrow were far cheaper. The ticket is on the East Coast Main Line, leaves Kings Cross at midday on the 29th of June [...]

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Sweaty palms already, folks. I’ve booked my (return) flight to Bangkok and have pencilled in my other destinations in this little 2-month jaunt. I’ll be away for almost the entire of July and August, and hitting a few new places predominantly within countries I have already visited. As ever, details are on the calendar (link [...]

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Just have to check a few dates before I book the actual flights, but I already have some destinations down on my Google Calendar. Those dates are as good as permanent. With luck, I should be booking things and forking out actual cash (*sob*) tonight or tomorrow. Please feel free to take pity on me [...]

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This one’s definitely worth bearing in mind. I’m sure a lot of us book flights as cheap as we can get them. This usually means getting the ones that can’t be changed, upgraded, moved, altered or cancelled without a complete loss of the ticket cost. Note those two words at the end: “ticket cost”. As [...]

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Don’t look now but I may be putting together plans for a teensy bit more of SE Asia towards the end of summer… I’ll keep you all posted, but I may manage that elusive 50th country before term begins.

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I’ll be cross-posting this to the other blogs shortly so apologies for duplication. I just heard from Mike at Blue Dragon about an author, John Shors, who’s written a novel based on street kids in Vietnam. Mike read the draft and has approved it – which is impressive given the usual stereotypes of street children. [...]

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