By Simon Barnett on February 19th, 2010
We made a mistake when we decided to fly back to Hanoi a day before the eve of the Chinese New Year, Tet. We were told that a lot of things would be closed but most tourist related businesses and museums etc. would remain open and in truth, we couldn’t find a flight at any [...]
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By Simon Barnett on February 1st, 2010
So the big news is that we have completed a border crossing with almost no mishaps or ripoffs – apart from running out of money! But more on that later.
Our final day in Hoi An began with the man from the post office coming to our hotel to wrap up the mountain of clothes that [...]
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By Annika McKee on January 30th, 2010
Greetings everybody! Annika here again. Simon suggested I do the post for Hoi An on account of the shopping aspect – it being one of my key skills you know!
Well, as Simon said, we arrived in Hoi An after a pretty hellish bus journey and then had a nap for a few hours until I [...]
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By Simon Barnett on January 29th, 2010
I usually write these posts whilst we’re on a bus or train from one place to another as the journeys can be quite long. But the journey from Nha Trang, which I’d picked out as the one in which I was going to write about the last few days was so spirit-crushingly uncomfortable, I couldn’t [...]
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By Simon Barnett on January 20th, 2010
Our last evening in Kep turned out to be quite an eventful one – we went for dinner at a restaurant down the road run by a Hungarian man with a vast beard and no top.
We chatted to him for an hour or two (well, he talked at us really!) which was fascinating – he’d [...]