SNORKELLING AROUND PALAU MAMUTIK Keen to see a bit more of the Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine National Park, we took a boat across to Palau Mamutik today. Mamutik is the smallest of these 5 islands and is within easy reach of Manukan Island where we’re staying – it […]
WELCOME TO PARADISE… Borneo is actually split up into 3 parts: Sabah and Sarawak (which are in the Malaysian part of the island), and Kalimantan on the Indonesian side of Borneo. The sultanate of Brunei is a separate country that sits in between Sabah and Sarawak. We’re in […]
JUST A DAY AT THE BEACH… We left the village of Ban Na Thai this morning and made our way to Ao Nang for a couple of days of relaxing on the beach. Thailand’s beaches are famous for their pristine beauty and, having come all this way, we […]
BIG WAVES IN SAN SEBASTIAN Thanks to the Atlantic Gulf Stream, the Basque coast gets more than its fair share of rain. That means that cloudy, windy, and showery days like today are common here in San Sebastian. Hardly the best weather to go hiking in, so rather […]
OH WE DO LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE… There is something quintessentially English about a spending the day at the seaside. It’s nothing like spending a day at the beach Aus-style (that involves swimming in the warm waters of the Indian or Pacific Ocean, with the sun […]
Wandering Soles 