Losing my Passport in Thailand

Never lose your passport. It is the golden rule of travel; the key to a stress-free journey; the epitome of a bad one. What are the procedures? Do they send you straight home on the next flight? When I lost my passport on the 26th of May, I spent the evening battling with loud, crackly phone calls to Thais with …

First Days in Bangkok

We got the coach from Darsana to Dhaka on the 27th, leaving as the sun rose up the main road out of town. Our seats at the front of the coach left us next to the horn, which the driver used with reckless abandon as he powered down the centre of the road, tilting round corners and swerving away from …