The train to Da Nang (or not, as it turned out).
We’re sitting on the train from Hanoi to Da Nang. We are in a sleeping cabin, a ‘soft berth’. Apparently the beds are marginally thicker than the ‘hard berth’ beds and there are 4 to a cabin in 2...
View ArticleFarewell Hoi An, Hello Saigon.
Our last full day in Hoi An was a busy one. I spent the morning doing a cooking course by myself, that is, without Luke but with about 10 other people – 4 English backpackers and an Indian/Malay family...
View ArticleHere Comes The Planet 09 – Hoi An Prelude
We catch the train from Hanoi to Da Nang… … OR DO WE? Also, no. We don’t. :(
View ArticleBudapest to Slovakia
This morning we found our taxi driver asleep in his car outside our hotel, which was kind of funny. What wasn’t funny was being taken the long way to the station – about 3 times as far as we’d walked...
View ArticlePortugal: Lagos and Porto (pt 1)
After wasting four nights in Seville we opted for two in Lagos, leaving our options open to stay longer if we liked the place. Lagos is on the southern coast of Portugal, about five hours by bus from...
View ArticleUSA: The Desert Eagle
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, the Desert Eagle is the train we caught from St Louis to Milwaukee. I didn’t know quite what to expect from trains in the US. We’d been warned against buses and I’m...
View ArticleCanada and Alaska: I Win a Silver Salmon
I’d read on a blog that the Rocky Mountaineer holds a poetry competition so on the second day I started writing a poem. Halfway through the day nothing had been mentioned so I asked Cleo, one of the...
View ArticleCanada and Alaska: Kamloops
It seems like everyone in Canada is determined to out-nice the last person you met, so I have to tell you how I met Ron. Halfway through our Rocky Mountaineer voyage we stop for the night at a city...
View ArticleSwitzerland: Interlaken
Before heading off to Switzerland we spent the weekend in Cambridge attending Andrew and Lila’s wedding celebration (one year after they married – Lila is from Taiwan and they married quickly last...
View ArticleSwitzerland: A Trip To Jungfraujoch
One of the biggest tourist draws in this region is the complex at the saddle of the Jungfrau (young girl) and Monsch (monk) mountains. The buildings are reached by train from Kleine Scheidigg, a...
View ArticleLast Day In Lauterbrunnen.
We had left ourselves a free day in Lauterbrunnen to see things in the area that caught our eye. First up was a Swiss culture festival that was being held up a nearby mountain. We caught the usual...
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