http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beaker Follow a redhead round the world... Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:02:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On the weekend Bec and I travelled up to Gympie in Queensland to the Heart of Gold film festival . It was a brilliant festival showing hundreds of short films from around the world, as well as meet-the-filmmaker sessions and seminars. They also had a photography category, and out of 1000 entries ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beaker/heart-of-gold-film-festival-we-have-a-winner.html We spent three nights in Southern Utah, staying at a glorious holiday house about ten minute's drive from Zion National Park. The house was huge; four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a giant open plan kitchen-dining-living area with double height windows looking out onto the snow covered surroundings, two balconies, snow-covered gables, and ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beaker/zion-national-park-where-angels-land.html Bryce Canyon, just over an hour's drive north of our accommodation in Southern Utah, was a stunning, ridiculously enchanting locale. It was small in comparison to the Grand Canyon from where we'd just come, but then, Europe is small compared to the Grand Canyon. America is a place that seldom does small. A ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beaker/bryce-canyon-hoodoo-chile.html It was mid-afternoon, around 4pm, and the sun was already low in the sky, ready to kiss the horizon good night. I drove the big SUV, a Ford Explorer, through the snow covered plains north of Flagstaff, towards the south rim of the Grand Canyon. I expected the landscape to be ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beaker/the-grand-canyon-a-big-fucking-hole.html Words. They're overrated. Well, I reckon, anyway. How do you describe the grandeur of the Grand Canyon, the self-aware buzz of New York, the far-out-are-we-still-on-planet-earth bizarreness of Bryce Canyon in Utah? You can't. Well, by 'you' I mean 'me'. I can't. When I started this blog back in, holy shit, it ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beaker/usa-words-are-overrated.html Now that I've run out of words, I thought maybe you folks who are still checking the site might be interested in seeing some of the photos I took whilst Bec and I were volunteering at the orphanage in Nepal last year, starting with a couple of black and white ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beaker/nepal-in-black-and-white.html In Chiang Mai, they have some strange guardians of their wats.... But most of our time was spent down south, lazing about on Koh Pha Ngan. First, it was Bottle Beach.... Then, it was round to Haad Sadet, for another week of lazing about in hammocks, reading books, ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beaker/whoa-its-thailand.html Hoi An - where we had our wedding outfits tailored, and managed to squeeze in a day chilling on the beach. I was well looked after by Long, the friendly tailor, who made sure my brown wedding suit was top notch. Yes brown. As if I'd get married in ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beaker/look-theres-vietnam.html Getting from Muang Ngoi to Vieng Xai, near the Vietnamese border, was a battle. We got on the bus in the middle of the night clambering over sleeping bodies in the aisle, it broke down for four hours (check out the engine parts laying in front of the bus), ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beaker/more-stuff-to-look-at-from-laos.html Well, technically this first one below isn't in Laos, but it's damn near close enough. This is Bec with Sayan, the greatest, friendliest guesthouse/restaurant owner you could ever hope to meet, who runs the Easy Restaurant/Guesthouse in Chiang Khong, in the northeast of Thailand where most people cross the ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beaker/stuff-to-look-at-from-laos.html