The peoples' democratic blog of Matt Hayward

On my most recent jaunt overseas, I decided to stock up on reading material for several bus and plane rides. Wouldn’t you know it, there’s a Malaysian version of Top Gear -the April 2009 edition as it goes. After all it’s all basically the same content right, with a few local contributions? All was looking [...]

For those of you who hesitate to ride a bike or haven’t before, for the love of god you must do it in Laos. It will provide you with the greatest experiences of your holiday. Without question, motorbiking around the caves of Vang Vieng was the best way to spend a day ever. Heaps of [...]

If Bangkok was the Melbourne or Sydney of Indochina then Vientiane, capital of Laos would be the Adelaide. Basically a flat, spread out, sleepy little town with Wats (Buddhist temples) in place of churches and plenty of them. Like Adelaide though, it has great food in abundance and you only need to scratch the surface [...]

Wasting time before getting on an international flight. What can you really do? Not much except check out the book store in the departure lounge really.
So there I was at KLIA and I found, the International Jew by Henry Ford – in both condensed and full versions. This is a collection of anti-Jewish propaganda published [...]

Well this is the first in a whole bunch of holiday updates. In short absolutely no complaints about this place. Stayed for 6 days, during which time all was sublime and a lot of fun was had.
We stayed in late March 2009, which is starting to transition into the wet season. Basically meaning you may [...]