Itinerary (October 12-28): My arrival into Vietnam, Da Nang and Hoi An are covered in my first Vietnam post. Hue To get to Hue from Hoi An, you need to go back to Da Nang and catch a train from there or you can take a bus, but I think you have to change buses
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Flew into Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam for my 15 night stay. Itinerary (October 12-28): I have to say, Vietnam, your food is scrumptious. Ho Chi Minh airport arrival What seems like a lifetime ago, I wrote about getting a Vietnam visa because you do probably need one if you fly into a Vietnam airport. Everything
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The Netherlands for being a tiny country, packs a strong punch to the nuts for its number of quaint towns, as the Dutch do. If I am being honest, I don’t really know what qualifies as a town or city and one time I was speaking in front of 300+ people on a microphone, and
Someone compared Bucharest to Berlin and I was like ummm nice try. Yes, yes, the dark gray clouds, -1 real feel, November time doesn’t always show a city in the nicest of light, but I assure you, the light wasn’t the problem. I saw all major sites, including walking around the Palace of Parliament, which
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I had two full days in Bucharest before I needed to catch a flight to the western side of Romania for my work training. Before this escapade started, I tried to figure out how I could get the most out of my work trip by seeing all the Romanian hits. I quickly realised that the
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My first overall impression of Romania was that I was going to die. Let me elaborate. I walk out of the Bucharest airport (OTP) to catch the 780 bus to Gara de Nord train station so I could walk to Hello Hotel Gara de Nord. The buses are directly outside the doors once you go
Being so frugal for all of my life, you’d think I would have all the answers about money when travelling. The truth is, you would be absolutely right, you sexy genius. I said I was frugal, not modest. Jokes. I don’t have all the answers, I have what I do most of the time when
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Sintra is just a short jaunt from Lisbon but packs a powerful punch to the gonads. The concentration of palaces, castles and forts is insane. Although you can’t see all in one day if you are doing it on the cheap, I think I chose the three top hits: Pena Palace, Castelo dos Mouros and
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I adore bookshops. I am the type of person who actually does what they call reading. So when I decided to go to Portugal, I knew I needed to make my way to the Livraria Lello bookshop in Porto. What I didn’t know was that it is more of an amusement park attraction than a
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When I galavanted around Portugal my route, again, was: Coimbra Coimbra is really something. Definitely worth a full day here. There is the oldest university in Portugal along with some twisting alleyways and a cool view of the layered town from the bridge. Rumour had it that the famous Old (Joanine) Library in the University
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