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Welcome 梅亚雷

Posted on 03/03/2011 by haonowshaokao

I guess it’s finally time that I got round to writing something about the last week, but, well, where to start? I’ll take it one day at a time, I suppose. This time last week V went into hospital to … Continue reading →

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More Waiting

Posted on 23/02/2011 by haonowshaokao

The baby is six days late now, and we’re seriously considering going to the hospital tomorrow and asking for it to be induced before it’s too big. Two days after the due date, on V’s birthday, we went into the … Continue reading →

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Waiting.

Posted on 16/02/2011 by haonowshaokao

V’s back from hospital, but the baby’s still inside. False alarms are pretty common, but the due date is tomorrow, so next time will most likely be it. I had planned to come and stay with her in the hospital, … Continue reading →

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Spring Festival 2011

Posted on 05/02/2011 by haonowshaokao

Spring Festival was ok. I suppose it’s difficult to get excited about a festival that’s not part of your culture, but nobody here seemed to be getting that excited either. It’s a strange time in the life of a family … Continue reading →

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Hubei

Posted on 02/05/2010 by haonowshaokao

A couple of weeks ago I went with V down to Hubei to “register”. It’s a bit like getting married, except the wedding itself won’t be for a few years, so best think of it as an engagement. Things didn’t … Continue reading →

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Northern Thailand

Posted on 29/06/2008 by haonowshaokao

It was the opposite of a shock to return to Thailand after my time in Laos – not pleasant familiarity, but an easiness that doesn’t fit in that well with my idea of travel, whatever that is. Not that anything … Continue reading →

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Up the Mekong

Posted on 26/06/2008 by haonowshaokao

Like much of the other travel advice I’d been offered, the description of the Mekong boat trip as ‘not worth the bother’ turned out to be completely untrue. The three cities had been great, but much of the time something … Continue reading →

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Laos Part 2 – Luang Prabang

Posted on 15/06/2008 by haonowshaokao

The bus journey from Vang Vieng to Luang Prabang was in some ways worse than the one from Siem Reap. In its favour it was at least half full, or half empty, so I had a double seat to myself, … Continue reading →

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Laos pt 1 – Vientiane and Vang Vieng

Posted on 11/06/2008 by haonowshaokao

After a night in Bangkok (which I’ll write about a bit later) I took a “sleeper bus” to the Thai-Lao border. It didn’t have beds, but the reclining chairs went back far enough for the journey to be bearable. As … Continue reading →

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Siem Reap, Angkor and a few buses

Posted on 01/06/2008 by haonowshaokao

It would’ve been nice to have stayed on in Phnom Penh a couple more days at least, but time was starting to run out and I was eager to see Cambodia’s biggest draw, Angkor Wat. Tyler was off back to … Continue reading →

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