http://nick-curry.com/blog Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:57:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On the way back home today (well, back to the gym that is), I had the good fortune of happening upon an anti-Thaksin rally in front of the Royal Palace just as I was changing buses. I had wanted to assist to one of these last time I was here, ... http://nick-curry.com/blog/2006/02/26/anti-thaksin-rally-in-bangkok/ I arrived in Luang Prabang yesterday, taking the plane from Chiang Mai. I therefore skipped the Chiang Mai - Chiang Rai - Huay Xai (Laos) - Luang Prabang trip most backpackers do, the last part of which is normally travelled by boat. So, Luang Prabang is the first I see ... http://nick-curry.com/blog/2006/02/08/luang-prabang/ We had a couple of great meals in the past 2 days - it isn't always obvious to eat well in touristy places, so we were pretty happy to find good food. The first was an excellent Tibetan restaurant just outside of the old town, where we had fried yak ... http://nick-curry.com/blog/2005/11/08/eating-in-baisha-and-lijiang/ ! http://nick-curry.com/blog/2005/11/06/lijiang/ ! http://nick-curry.com/blog/2005/11/05/guangzhou-chinas-answer-to-hong-kong/ ! http://nick-curry.com/blog/2005/11/03/hong-kong-the-city-of-bling-bling/ A conversation between Ross and the waiter in one of the first restaurants we went to in "Hong Kong Island":1 : |Conversation according to Ross|Conversation according to the waiter| |Waiter: hello|Waiter: hello| |Waiter: Where are you from?||Waiter: What would you like to drink?| |Ross: Spain|Ross:Sprite| |(At this point, Nick gets back to the table)|| Ross got ... http://nick-curry.com/blog/2005/11/03/adaptation/ Arriving in "Hong Kong":1... Lights, neon, more lights, lots and lots of people. Ross' friend Kin came to pick us up from the airport, and took us out to "dinner":1 to a really tasty Thai place in Kowloon. We met his girlfriend Kimmee, and then went out for a drink ... http://nick-curry.com/blog/2005/11/01/arriving-in-hong-kong/ ! http://nick-curry.com/blog/2005/10/31/unexpected-stopover-in-munich/ I spent 1.5 days in London, stopping over to pick Ross up on my way to China :) - in that time I had an unfeasible amount of things to do. I did manage to meet up with Onyee the day I arrived for a quick coffee, and it was ... http://nick-curry.com/blog/2005/10/29/london-stopover/