“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted” –Yuval Noah Harari CROSSING SOUTH KOREA THREE CITIES For […]
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“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it” —Confucius. SOUTH KOREA HOW TO MISS YOUR FLIGHT It all started Saturday, October the 15th, it was time for Pierre and I to go our separate ways. We said goodbye at Hanoi’s […]
“Alone, it’s just a journey. Now adventures, they must be shared”—John D. Payne NORTH VIETNAM A SEQUEL AS AN END As I said in my previous article, two weeks in Vietnam is a bit short, there’s so much to places […]
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”—Confucius VIETNAM A NEW JOURNEY Two weeks to cross a country 2000 km long, that’s all we had. We started our trip with Ho Chi Minh […]
“Half a league from this city is a temple. It is of such extraordinary construction, that it is impossible to describe it. It is like no other building in the world. It has towers and decoration and all the refinements […]
“Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.”—Buddha THAILAND HEADING TO BANGKOK On this week’s post, we’ll mostly explore the Capital. To get there, we’ll first take a night train from Surat Thani to Bangkok. Even though […]
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”— Lao Tzu THAILAND ON THE ROAD AGAIN In the first part, […]
“When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realise that one cannot eat money” —Native american Cree proverb MALAYSIA EXCERPT OF A JOURNEY On this week’s article, we’ll […]
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything […]
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