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Update: September 2014

Taking A Break On 31st July 2014, after a total of 989 days on the road, we flew back to the UK. We're having a rest at home and in August we rented a lovely house back in Northampton that we have until January. Returning to living a 'normal life' has been interesting. We've unpacked the kitchen equipment, purchased furniture and collected things like clothes, paperwork, tools and lamps that were being looked after for us by friends and family. It has been wonderful to have all my shoes back! I've stocked our newly ...

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Food Court Signs in Bukit Bintang

Daily Photo: Tuesday 13th May 2014

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Photo Post: Two Men Chat on Jalan Hang Lekir

Monday 28th April 2014

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Albums for Thailand 2013 and Singapore 2014 Now Live

minisuitcase Gallery Page Updated I finally got around to updating the Gallery page!  There are two new albums up for your perusal - one for our long stay in Chiang Mai last year and one for our short visit to Singapore in January. You will see some photos that have featured on posts and some that have not. There are now eleven albums altogether, check them out and let me know what you think! Never Miss a Post from minisuitcase.co.uk If you're interested in finding out about new posts on this site without having to ac ...

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Street Art in Chiang Mai

Recording the Outdoor Artistry of the City This is very much an image based post to showcase some of the street art we saw during our few months in the northern city of Chiang Mai in Thailand.  I never went out of my way to find pieces to capture but they always caught my eye when I did see them so I started to take photos... The first few here are from places within the old city walls.  These next ones only show a part of a much larger piece but I was unable to capture it due to the narrowness of the alleyways and my lens not b ...

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A short video I made about our 2 days in Singapore back in January. It is not a documentary or anything, it is made of hundreds of ultra short clips put together. I was inspired to try this style by those '1 second a day' videos.   You can read the blog post, see the pictures and find out where we went over on the main blog at: http://www.minisuitcase.co.uk/two-almost-free-days-in-singapore/

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Our Changing View in Chiang Mai

Watching the Weather over the Mountain in Northern Thailand We had a lovely big balcony at the Na Inn in Chiang Mai. It became quite a habit to snap a photo whenever the view struck me as new. You'll see we experienced a variety of weather conditions and that the view changed all the time.  Here are just a few of the photos I took... You can see the lush undergrowth that covers the mountain in this one.  The half of a temple you can see in most of the photos is Wat Chedi Luang which was just a short walk away down an alley a ...

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A Photo Tour of The Temples of Chiang Mai

Chiang Mai has more than 300 temple to explore.  This post is not supposed to be a guide to temple spotting but a place to put some of the hundreds of photos we took in and around temples during the couple of months we spent in the city. Temples Inside the Old City Walls Wat Chedi Luang was the temple we visited most often as it was very close to where we lived.  As well as the enormous, partially restored chedi to wander around there are several ordination halls and smaller buildings to explore.  The temple often holds events and dr ...

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Two (Almost Free) Days in Singapore

A Quick Visa Run via First Class Coach In some ways Malaysia has very generous visa provisions.  For us, with our now well stamped UK passports, it means we qualify for a visa on arrival (VOA) that is valid for three whole months (well, 90 days to be specific.) The cost? completely free!  This is one of the reasons that we have spent so much time here over the last couple of years.  Extending a Malaysian visa is not so easy though.  I spent a few days doing some research into the matter and it seems that it is possible to extend your vis ...

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Review: Transtar Luxury Coach KL to Singapore

We Test the Transtar 'First Class' Coach Experience We'd seen the photos and were excited to travel in 'first class' luxury. How did our visa run on the Transtar Solitaire Coach turn out? Did it live up to our super high expectations? Online Booking I booked the tickets online with Transtar directly.  We were able to select our seats and meal preferences in advance and using my (UK) credit card was not an issue.  I'd had a few questions before booking and used their email enquiry form which they responded to quickly and politely.  I ...

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Daily Photo - Pollution Haze in Kuala Lumpur

Thursday 13th March  

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Lantern Festival at Thean Hou Temple in KL

Friday 14th February  

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Daily Photo: Us in Singapore

Thursday 30th January 2014 So, this is not from today. I'm sorting out photographs from our short trip to Singapore a couple of weeks ago and Henry gave me this. There are so few pictures of us together I thought I'd make it a daily photo.

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A Unique NYE at the Turun Rally in Kuala Lumpur

We Welcome 2014 with Protesters at Dataran Merdeka As you may have read in my last post we had a rather party orientated Christmas Eve. We didn't take many photos, we spent a lot of money on alcohol and although it was memorable we decided to take part in a rather different sort of gathering for New Year's Eve. We attended the biggest rally we've ever been to and welcomed 2014 with between 30,000 and 50,000 others.

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A Unique NYE at the Turun Rally in Kuala Lumpur

We Welcome 2014 with Protesters at Dataran Merdeka As you may have read in my last post we had a rather party orientated Christmas Eve. We didn't take many photos, we spent a lot of money on alcohol and although it was memorable we decided to take part in a rather different sort of gathering for New Year's Eve. We attended the biggest rally we've ever been to and welcomed 2014 with between 30,000 and 50,000 others.

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A Crazy Christmas Eve in Kuala Lumpur

We Party in Bukit Bintang and Welcome Christmas with Snow It all started because it was Christmas, and last year we spent almost the whole day on a bumpy, dusty bus travelling from Phnom Penh in Cambodia to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. We were exhausted by the time we actually arrived and we didn't mark Christmas at all apart from having a carbonara on boxing day. So this year I was determined that we'd mark it in some way.

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Cat in an Alley

Wednesday 22nd January 2014