Hong Kong Queuey (Part Two-ey)

The skyline of one of the world’s great mega-cities spread out before me and away into the distance. The views from Victoria Peak were staggering, and despite the heavy tourist traffic on the tram coming up, the trail around the peak was virtually deserted which suited me just fine. After a few hours ambling around, […]

Hong Kong Queuey

Prelude : An apology. Apologies for the delay between posts, it’s been a chaotic 3 months however there’s no excuse for not posting in so long! I’m looking forward to getting you all up to speed on the most recent set of travels and activities (including finally making it to one of China’s ‘big hitters’ […]

Homeward bound

So there we go then, all done and halfway back to Blighty! It’s 10pm in Dubai airport but my body clock is at 1am and flagging, not ideal when my flights not for 5 more hours. Spent the final day in Bangkok just wondering round, taking it all in one final time and getting in […]

Bangkok Reflections

Back in Bangkok now after leaving Vietnam on Sunday (it just took me the best part of a minute then to remember a: what day I flew & b: what day it is today, I stopped keeping track so long ago!) Been a tricky few days as had some very sad news re a friend […]

Motorcycle Madness (Part 2)

So I’m back in Ha Noi now after 2 more days biking through the mountains. Definitely a better biker now for the experience (the whole trip felt like an intensive training course, passed except for a massive fail whenever faced with gravel!) No doubt Mum is reading this and I know she was very worried […]

Motorcycle Madness (PART 1)

Sorry to drop another on you so soon but feel today very much merits its own post, plus I’ll be off in the mountains tomorrow and will have no WiFi or 3G so you all get a day off 🙂 The first day of the highly anticipated motorbike tour has finally arrived! So was collected […]

Ha Long winded update

Warning: Long winded travel update ahead! So happy new year everyone! On new years eve I wandered towards the centre and ended up at the Vietnam equivalent of the Sydney opera house / Big Ben / etc New Year celebrations. Loads of bands, dancers, a shedload of DJs I’d never heard of and a nice […]

The Da Nang Fire Sale

As is becoming tradition, a busy few days! After the day in Hue’s imperial city, I went to visit a number of the emperors tombs nearby. Bloody hell, they know how to build them!! Giant bronze statue of themselves, an entire underground palace (which no one will ever see) huge marble obelisks bearing down on […]

Doing it My Hue

So another few days on, another city. After taking the morning to check out marble mountain in Da Nang yesterday (an awesome mountain near the coast which was mined for the marble sculptures nearby creating a system of caved & temples carved into the mountainside) it was a 4 hour bus ride to Hue. Bus […]

Dec 26th & not a turkey in sight!

Firstly thank you all for showing the love yesterday, was as a bit down & homesick after speaking to the family Christmas morning (sounds ridiculous in the circumstances I know but if you had full control of them, all the time, they wouldn’t be emotions!) Grand now anyway so here’s the overview for my Vietnamese […]