Re-Launching The Big Trip Out  You might ask yourself (if you have come here, in which case....Thank You) why I have re-launched this website when we finished our travels 3.5 years ago and have been living in Bangkok since. I nearly asked myself the same question, but the reason was entirely business motivated and quite boring....I'll come back to that in a few paragraphs. What does it mean to the returning visitor? Well, the articles are the same, but they look a lot nicer. Our galleries now have ALL our images from our trip (about 30% more images) and we have uploaded ALL our videos from our travels onto YouTube to stream through the site, so there is a reason to go through all the diaries again as these are embedded alongside the diaries which, coincidentally, are now in a MUCH easier to follow and read layout. Let us know what you think through our contact form. I will also be be bringing fresh information to the site highlighting some of the interesting things about living in Bangkok that we have learnt in our, close to, 4 years in this city. Shameless promotion ahead (well, it is my site): I now run a small-scale web design and hosting business. This site used to take up 2.5Gb of space on my hosting platform, and that meant that I couldn't provide enough clients with decent hosting for a low enough price. So, now all the media is hosted off-site we have a media-rich, but low foot-print website. See, told you it was boring....unless you are one of my clients....and if you are not then check the shameless link at the foot of the website to find out more about The Organic Web and how you can have a site like this from as little as £15/month! Missing in Action (SERIOUS GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING) Written on Wednesday, 10 May 2006 00:00 Read 142 times  What Happens Next? (I am SERIOUSLY warning you about the content in the next section… be careful if you are squeamish). This also contains a parental warning about the use of harsh language. What happened next still seems surreal to me (I am writing this 2 weeks later in a café in Hanoi). I lifted the kayak, stepped backwards to take the weight and kicked (backwards) a rock, inserting a large amount of coral into my right ankle. I felt the pain (not too bad), stepped onto the sand, looked down and saw blood, quite literally, gushing from the wound. Now, Zoë and I took a first aid course before the trip (indeed I have been a qualified first aider for nearly 8 years), so I immediately recognised the seriousness of the situation. I am AT LEAST 2 hours to hospital by any means, bleeding heavily (the cut was around 2 inches long, missing the Achilles by a mere millimetre and around 1 cm deep where it has severed the vein…yep, REALLY MESSY, VERY well achieved!!). Without thinking I stated that I needed to get to hospital as quickly as possible. I ripped off my t-shirt and applied compression. Moving… Puerto Escondido(n't) Written on Monday, 12 June 2006 00:00 Read 144 times The rest of our time in Oaxaca was spent basking in our, hard searched for, nice accommodation. Right outside our room were a couple of comfortable chairs that we took up residence in. From this position we ended up meeting more people than we would have done had we been in a hostel. We met a nice couple from New Zealand, a guy from Canada, his Japanese girlfriend and a lovely Texan lady (who has restored… Angkor Who? Written on Tuesday, 09 October 2007 00:00 Read 121 times We have learnt that when arriving in a “major” tourist town you should try to arrive with quite a few hours of daylight left. That way you don’t have to be too desperate. Sadly this was not happening. Low and behold we were being delivered straight into a scam. The taxi pulled up on the outskirts of town and a man came to the window of the car, he started to say something about us getting… Living In Bangkok Written on Wednesday, 12 October 2011 11:21 Read 91 times This section has a very simple premise - to share information about what we have discovered about living in Bangkok. We have been living in Bangkok for nearly 4 years now and during our time here we have run an apartment block, taught & worked online. We use a motorbike every day for our shopping, entertainment and leisure pursuits. We shop at the markets, know which supermarket chains stock which "hard to find" goods and so… About The Trip: 5 years, 11 months & 14 days since Justin and Zoe left England |