by Mark Butland | 10/01/2022 | Thailand 2022
By mid-morning our PCR results had come back negative, which meant we were free to leave the Nouvo City Hotel and head out to explore the neighbourhood around it. We spent a couple of hours walking the busy streets in the heat, which in Bangkok lasts for most of the...
by Mark Butland | 09/01/2022 | Thailand 2022
The 2022 trip started with touchdown at Bangkok airport in January. Covid entry rules were still in force then, so the first job was getting through the health checks and showing our Thai Passes. Once that was done we were driven straight to the Nouvo City Hotel....
by Mark Butland | 13/02/2020 | Iceland
We left the campsite before dawn on day four to see the sunrise at Skógafoss. The falls are about 60m high, and the power of the water is incredible. We climbed the steep steps on the right-hand side, around 527 of them, up to the viewing platform, which gives a great...
by Mark Butland | 12/02/2020 | Iceland
Day three started with a glacier hike out onto the old blue ice to explore an ice cave. Standing inside those clear, frozen walls gave us a real sense of how long Iceland’s landscape has taken to form. Back on solid ground we drove to Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon, where a...
by Mark Butland | 11/02/2020 | Iceland
We were up at about 5.30am and drove to Stokksnes to catch the sunrise on the beach, with the light coming up on the Vestrahorn mountains. The jagged peaks rise straight up behind black volcanic sand dunes. Access to Stokksnes needs a pass, which is sold at the Viking...
