2012: the end of the Mayan Calendar and, if you believe the hype and Roland Emmerich, the end of civilisation as we know it! Therefore, it is with and enormous amount of optimism that we have plundered our savings and blown a few grand on yet another tour of South East Asia in 2013. Of course, this uncharacteristic feeling of slightly-more-than-half-full glassware could be due to a Christmas-infested December where the sun is actually shining for once, or that the winds are bracing but not actually freezing the roads and paralysing the country's airports, or that the volcanoes in Iceland are quiescent for a change, or that the Christmas commercial hype is not as mind-numbingly oppressive as usual (hmm - perhaps the recession has some benefits after all). Or maybe its the alcohol. Or maybe I've had a stroke and haven't noticed.
The demise of Planet Earth notwithstanding, we plan to escape Dreary Britain on the 3rd January 2013. If this all feels spookily familiar it's because we are flying to Bangkok again, imposing ourselves on long-suffering friends, invading their newly rented apartments (you can run but you can't hide - muhahaha!) and planning all sorts of adventures in obscure places. Our seven week mission is, again, to explore strange new bars, to seek out new food and ancient civilisations, and to boldly split infinitives where no blog has gone before.
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