YOU’VE CHANGED It has been a year since my first visit and while the city looks the same, there have been casualties. The small corner shop where I had my first ‘banh mi’ (baguette) has gone. The cool cafe where I had lunch is now a hair salon. Even the magnificent Maison D’Orient has undergone […]
Monthly Archives: January 2018
THE BEGINNING Saigon to Hanoi is the longest train journey I have ever undertaken, it’s 35 hours eclipsing Hong Kong to Beijing at 23 (back in 2011). Both took place in December and both were in search of new fortune, not just travel. By the way this blog includes affiliate links. A metro under construction […]
BRAINSTORMING TRAVEL PLANNING REVERSING… Last year saw me do travel I hadn’t planned until this year. It was my intention as I may have mentioned already to travel from Athens and work my way north. Instead I did this in reverse and Athens was approached from the north. Likewise in 2016 Hanoi was intended as […]
ARRIVAL IN INDOCHINA Only now looking back do I wonder why I never came here after Turkey and Thailand went pear shaped and I suppose the answer to that is… it would’ve have been too similar and maybe not so much work as China offered in 2011 and still. So Cambodia and Laos remain the […]
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