Making the most of a flight change in Singapore, we decided to tack on two nights and one full day in Singapore. Poor Keith, he knew there was only one place I wanted to stay, and I wasn’t going to Singapore without staying there. Marina Bay Sands. The three towers with the surf board on […]

Crossing into Cambodia via speedboat sounds like an adventure, and let me tell you – it was. Some of our group, us included, had E visas, which it turned out wouldn’t be accepted where we were going. We were re-routed to an alternative border crossing which we travelled to by getting a speedboat out of […]

After leaving Saigon, we travelled by coach to the Mekong Delta area. We had some time on the river, including in tiny boats through small branches of the river. We saw locals and their community and felt like we were in Apocalypse now. It was simply brilliant. See our video highlights here We were taken […]

October 2022 Our flight to Saigon was fairly smooth (despite Keith being pulled up about something dodgy in his case- turns out it was Aldi deodorant!) and the afternoon was spent doing some sight seeing and shopping! We enjoyed a walking tour with Tien and saw some historical sites and then checked into our hotel, […]

October 2022 After 10 rescheduled attempts and 2.5 years since our original scheduled departure date, my goodness me, it was good to exclaim that as we landed in Hanoi mid morning of Wednesday. We’d had a long travel day, departing from London on Tuesday morning and travelling via Singapore to Hanoi, but Singapore Airlines made […]

For both Keith and me, it has been a long term ambition in life to visit Egypt. But it’s a country that comes with challenges, and we’ve sat patiently waiting for the right time to go. Keith has kept his eye on the Foreign office updates for years as we’ve discussed whether, when the time […]

The day had arrived. The alarm went off  4.30am, we forced breakfast down, our bags were collected and we departed Cusco at 5.55am. We were going to tick off the highest item on our Bucket List. We’d been delayed a year, got through a worldwide pandemic and avoided rail strikes here in Peru. We were […]

Our walking tour of Cusco began with a short walk up to the market of San Pedro. At the market, Rom, our guide took time to show us some of the more unusual items to be found in the market, along with items that we may want to take home, like Peruvian chocolate etc. We […]

After a quiet but pleasant evening in our hotel on the banks of Lake TIticata, we met our new local guide Jose, and boarded a private luxury speedboat for our day exploring Lake Titicata and the historic floating islands. Lake Titicata is the highest navigational lake in the world and is absolutely huge. It spans […]

From Arequipa we took a very scenic coach journey into the mountains and volcanoes, gradually increasing in altitude by the minute! The views were tremendous and the higher we go the more remote it became. We passed 11000 feet and paused for a comfort stop and to try some traditional Inca tea- which is essentially […]