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8-11 June: Four Walls and a Few Mates
Prior to starting our trip, we were really looking forward to the camping leg. Getting out, driving around, meeting people in campsites and sharing some drinks with our new found friends. The camping has been fantastic, great to get back to basics in some amazing country. However, there have been a few things which we […]
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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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20-23 May: In Seine in the Membrane
With our strategically date transferred tickets, we left Vietnam a week early with the guise to surprise a schoolmate of mine (Seb) in Paris for his 30th birthday. I’d love to say that the idea was mine, but Seb’s wonderful wife Doreen was the mastermind…. We arrived into Paris at about 6am and with customs, […]
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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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10–16 May: Angkor What?
(Kam) I am sure that there are going to be many times when my pitifully limited vocab will not be able to express the sites that we experience. The temples of Angkor are most defiantly one of those occasions. Duncan and I arrived in Ho Chi Minh and immediately started planning a side trip to […]
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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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27 April-1 May: Hooray for Hoi An
I don’t know whether Kam and I are now getting used to Vietnam, or whether in fact each place we stop is getting better and better. Whatever the reason, Hoi An has been an amazing stop for so many reasons; for beauty, for relaxation, for food and for friends. Safe with our newly purchased “open […]