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5-8 June: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
It is kinda fun that each time we leave a campsite, what eventuates is us looking over a map saying “Where to now?”! Gosh, we are so close to Italy!! On this particular morning we decided, just because it would be kinda fun, we would head to Torino and have lunch in Italy. I could […]
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31 May-5 June : Burgundy Blues to Lyon Laughs
(Kam) Champagne was such a sparkling success it was bound to happen that anything to follow, even in a place as wonderful as Burgundy, would struggle to compete for a number reasons…. We left the Champagne area in perfect sunlight and warm weather and arrived in northern Burgundy just south of Les Riceys to a […]
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23-30 May: Foux du fafa through France
I write this post in the Burgundy area in the middle of the French countryside. My lovely husband cooking up a storm of Beef Bourguignon (very appropriate) on our little gas stove…ahh there pops the wine…. It has been just been over a week since we bid a very fond farewell to our lovely guests […]
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16-19 May: Don’t Miss Saigon
We arrived back to HCMC after our Cambodian jaunt kinda looking forward and getting excited about our next leg in Europe. Duncan and I enjoyed using HCMC as out base for southern Vietnam. The Hotel we stayed was great in this little back alley (which at first looks a little dingy but open up into […]
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3-8 May: Sun of a Beach
(Kam) This was it, the time that Duncan and I had been waiting for…. the beach getaway. We had decided to spend our time in two different beach areas in Vietnam. The first Doc Let (pronounced Yop Lek), based upon a recommendation in Lonely Planet which said …. “a beautiful beach, with nothing to do […]
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Braving the Bus
This is a special post for the Overnight Buses of Vietnam, because they oh, so deserve an extra special mention………. There are three main ways that as a freelance tourist, can get around Vietnam; Bus, Train and hiring a motorbike. We have tried the trains and unfortunately they didn’t stop where we wanted to go. […]
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23-27 April: Ninh Binh to Hue happiness
Time to hit the road again!! Next stop Ninh Binh. Ninh Binh was something that we decided to do upon a recommendation from a local tourist Office. Trang An Grottoes (the national park just outside the town of Ninh Binh) was described to us as the inland version of Halong Bay. We loved Halong so […]
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20-22 April: Superb Sapa
Duncan and I have discovered that we are not big city people. Hanoi is great, exciting and a flurry of colour and craziness but we instantly feel better as soon as we leave the big smoke. Sapa gave us the most memorable and remarkable experience on our trip yet. Sapa is an old French holiday […]
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17-19 April: How long to Halong… Bay
With the craziness and mayhem of Hanoi seeping from our pores, Kam and I decided to throw away the mopeds and vespas for junks and tourists and do what all travellers seem to do, take on the 2 ‘must-do’ side trips from Hanoi; Halong Bay and Sapa. You may not have heard of the name […]
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14-17 April: Hanoi Haze
With the peace, tranquillity and calm of the hot springs of NZ still echoing in our ears, we were suddenly hurtled into the chaos, craziness and crowds of Hanoi and Vietnam. Vietnam was described to us a country whose soundtrack is like Spinal Tap, cranked up to 11. This is certainly the case in places […]