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Two New Years, One Wedding, and No Sprouts

View at Picasa Propaganda poster art25-Dec-2009 10:59, Canon Canon DIGITAL IXUS 80 IS, 4.9, 18.6mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 250 We were inspired to take a non-traditional Christmas and New Year holiday this year, mainly because we were invited to the wedding ceremony for Tom and Dtik in Vientiane Lao PDR (Tom being my boss from [...]

A week in Laos, just because I can

Last week Andy had a week’s work in Laos so thought I’d take advantage of a seat sale on Thai Air to join him. What’s not to like about lovely Vientiane, with its lack of macet (traffic jams), great food and drinks and relaxing atmosphere? So, with Andy in the Mekong River Commission office all [...]

One Year in Bogor

We made it through one year in Bogor. Unfortunately, we did not manage to spend the anniversary together. I was in Laos having dinner with Tom, the usual good food at Cave du Chateux. Gill was in Bogor hosting a baby shower with about 30 guests, almost all of them having no idea what a [...]

Beware of the Dogs

After 6 weeks in in Vientiane, Lao PDR, you notice a few differences with Bogor – it’s not just the ability to drink a cold beer almost anywhere and the availability of goat cheese salads. One important thing is the number of dogs, which in Vientiane vastly outnumber those at home in Bogor (I will [...]