Hi from Hoi An

Day 6 We have arrived in Hoi A today, another place we had supposed to visit in 2022 but a typhoon but a stop to that. Getting here was a bit more of a challenge than it should have been. We’d pre booked tickets on a train from Hue to Da Nang, arrived at the […]

Onto the Imperial City of Hue

Day 4 We travelled between Hanoi and Hue by airplane rather than our original method of overnight sleeper train – last time we got 9 hours into this uncomfortable journey before evacuating off because of a typhoon further down the line! Read about it here This time, and partly because of time constraints and itinerary- […]

24 hours in Hanoi, Vietnam

Day 3 – Hanoi We pulled into Hanoi’s train station at 05:40 am and grabbed a ‘Grab’ cab to take us to our hotel in the Old quarter. Thank goodness, our hotel was able to offer us an early check in at less than £20 and so by 6.15 am we were back in an […]

Sa Pa, Vietnam

Day 1 in SaPa We arrived in Vietnam on schedule after a smooth and comfortable flight with Vietnam Airways on their non stop London to Hanoi route. We were met by our driver, booked through Viator and soon were on our way- a 4-5 hour car journey North into the hills, to our base of […]

7 miles and 7 pubs- a historic crawl around London.

It’s become a bit of a tradition that when we do a long haul trip, we have a London day or night the night before- a real chance for us wind down and relax before our trip. Last night was no exception! We clocked up 7 miles last night around London, ticking off some more […]

Our Journey through Jordan- Feb Half term 2024

Jordan has been high on our bucket list for a long long time. We’d looked at different ways of getting there, including a cruise (before Covid P&O had an interesting itinitery but this has now gone), and escorted group tour which was pricey. In the end, it was a chance post on Facebook that started […]

Southern India

We have been heartbroken since the day we left India in 2017. It’s a country that we fell in love with immediately- the colour, the chaos, the food… everything about it! Ever since we left, we knew we’d return and this year we finally managed to do this. We booked onto the Great Rail Journeys […]

24 Hours in Dubai

Dubai is a funny destination which seems to split travellers like marmite; some love it, some hate it. The only reason we wanted to go was because ever since we went up the Shanghai tower, the second tallest building in the world, we wanted to go up the tallest building – of course, THE BURJ […]

Nebraska, USA

Our last few days in the USA were spent road tripping through Nebraska – which was a hidden gem in our opinion. We didn’t really hold any expection of Nebraska, we were just going to have a night to break our journey back to the airport. However, we ended up enjoying it so much, that […]

South Dakota, USA

From Devils Tower, we made our way into South Dakota, our first stop was Lead on the outskirts of Deadwood. As we drove to Lead, we passed through the Black Hills of South Dakota and stopped for famous Indian tacos at Cheyenne Crossing. As we’ve been covering some large distances to get to this point, […]