by Liz Deacle | Asia Travel, Thailand, world travel
Taking overnight transport can either be super romantic or hell on earth.
The Bangkok Chiang Mai train was both. Read this honest review on the overnight train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai and decide which category your trip will fall into.
Firstly, congratulations on choosing to visit the more one of the most beautiful and underrated destinations in Thailand. Chiang Mai is simply stunning, and with so many free things to do, is a budget travellers paradise.
If you are looking for ways to travel from Bangkok to Chiang Mai (or the other way around – Chiang Mai to Bangkok) then you have a few options.
Your choice will depend on your time limit, your budget and finally (and this is a biggy) your sense of adventure.
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by Liz Deacle | Musings, world travel
What is an optimist and what is a pessimist? While an optimist will always find a way of seeing the positive in a situation, a pessimist will find every reason possible for things to go wrong. A doom and gloomer. Optimism vs pessimism. Which are you? A little clue. Know that it’s normal to be a little of both. (more…)
by Liz Deacle | Time for a change, world travel
This is an honest travelling family blog.
Warts and all.
Because I know that if you are considering travelling with your family – whatever age – you will have doubts that need to be addressed. You need answers, honest answers, not silly ancy pancy rubbish with pretty pictures.
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by Liz Deacle | Time for a change, world travel
Question: How can you afford to travel for a year?
This is the answer that people ask when we tell them that we are currently travelling the world with our two kids.
And no.
We are not millionaires. Far from it! And neither are the traveller’s stories you are about to read.
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by Liz Deacle | Reviews, world travel
Travelling is like getting pregnant. Only a lot more fun, and you feel thinner.
As is the case with an imminent birth, as soon as you announce to the world that you intend to pack a case and head out on vacation, you will be bombarded with lots of well-intended tips for travel. (more…)
by Liz Deacle | Personal, world travel
We have been travelling the world as a family for exactly ten months. Living a life of full-time travel.
Within that time we have visited endless countries and slept in beds, sheds, and in vehicles that I wasn’t sure we would come out of alive.
I’m not going to go into the ins and outs of where we’ve been and what we have done, just know that our long-term travel lifestyle has been incredible; I feel as though we have been to the end of the earth on a cloud.
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