It was very hot in Brunei, Vietnam and Singapore, so I didn’t need to wear my scarf so much. There were some very different sights to see here on my travels….. It was an exciting journey through Asia and although I’m now even tattier than I was 30 years
Oh my goodness! A beautiful apartment all to ourselves for two weeks, a bedroom with a view over the swimming pool, Mary (the maid) popping in three times a week, bicycles, TV, a comfy sofa and……what more could we want for a fabulous, relaxing, perfect end to 2012. Kenn, Pla and little Casse headed off
There was something gloomy about the low misty grey cloud that never managed to lift all day on Wednesday 12/12/12. It felt like it was signalling the end of something; maybe it was because we were just finishing our trip around, what I considered, the best bit of Vietnam. The bus took us back to
At 8am on Monday morning our minibus arrived to transfer us to the city of Ha Long. It stopped halfway at an enormous building full of sections of goods for sale, lacquerware, embroidery, silk clothing, wood carvings, etc and surrounding the building were hundreds of stone carvings; some only small but most were enormous. Most
The flight to Hanoi was on a small 66-seater ATR72 plane with just two propellers. It always feels a bit unnerving when you’re so used to flying everywhere on huge planes. With the little planes, you feel every bump and the right-hand propeller was right next to my window; it felt a little too close
On Thursday lunchtime, we left Saigon and South Vietnam without seeing one single bike, taxi, car, bus, motorbike, scooter, or pedestrian collide, or even touch each other. We decided that it’s a bit like watching insects buzzing about and never falling out of the sky. I think I’d train them up as Formula 1 racing
In Mui Ne, our first big buffet breakfast was followed by hours spent by the pool reading, dozing and then eating fresh spring rolls (the non-fried ones) for our lunch. Having spent most of the day being thoroughly lazy, we decided to make ourselves go for a long walk, so we got a taxi